About Sadie

Sadie has been exploring the natural world since was tiny.  Growing up on Vancouver Island, she spent her time climbing trees, exploring tidal pools, and learning nature facts while telling them to anybody who would listen. 

As a teen, she took her passion for the natural world into grassroots organizations - leading eco clubs, organizing beach clean ups, starting community gardens, and rewilding projects. At the University of Victoria, Sadie learned more nature facts and also a double major in Environmental Studies and Geography. She also started a rewilding project turning the boulevards in Victoria into native plant ecosystems. 

After university, she expanded her knowledge by working at nature conservancies, organic farms, wildlife recovery centers, in bat biology, and wilderness guiding.

Sadie fell in love with wilderness guiding and sharing her extensive knowledge and passion for the natural world. There is so much joy and beauty around us, and Sadie loves bringing people into closer contact with the natural world -  bridging the gap between wonder and knowledge, beauty and crisis. 

Sadie believes that once people really see and understand nature, they can’t help but appreciate how glorious our world really is.  As a parent, she believes that the best way to make sure her kids get to experience the wonder of the natural world is by inspiring joy, connection, and understanding.

She has been living on Denman Island for the last four years - building a homestead with her husband and baby, planting seeds and trees, raising chickens and sheep, and making the occasional peace treaty with the local ravens while exploring the beach’s and forests of this beautiful Island she calls home.