Our 30 acre site offers an almost fully fenced (work in progress…) outdoor learning environment, with kilometers of hiking trails, natural playgrounds, gardens, animals to care for, and lots of wildlife to observe.

Approximately half of our site is Carolinian forest, which is amongst the most diverse and fragile ecoregions in Canada. The Carolinian forest in Canada is located at the Southern tip of Ontario between Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario. This deciduous forest region provides a habitat for many rare and vulnerable plant and animal species.

Please visit Carolinian Canada for further information.

Our forest is comprised of Black Walnut, Red Oak, White Oak, Bur Oak, Black Cherry, Ash, Hawthorn, Poplar, Shagbark Hickory, Sugar Maple, Pignut Hickory, Ironwood, White Pine, Red Cedar, Hackberry, Nannyberry and American Plum. 

The forest understory is comprised of plants like Goldenrod, Grasses, Garlic Mustard, Currants and Raspberry, May Apple, Blood Roots, Trout Lilly, Trillium and a variety of fungi.

Our forest also protects a small seasonal watercourse and adjacent wetland area, contributes to regional water quality, removes pollutants from the air and absorbs a significant amount of carbon dioxide. It is somewhat connected by a hedgerow to a band of large forest parcels to the north. These larger forested parcels are important in providing habitat to more sensitive forest species.