About Sadie

Sadie has been exploring the natural world since was tiny.  Growing up on Vancouver Island, she spent her childhood climbing trees, exploring tidal pools, and learning nature facts while munching horsetail.  

As a teen, she took her passion for the natural world into grassroots organizations - leading eco clubs, organizing beach clean ups, and starting community gardens and re-wilding projects. At the University of Victoria, Sadie learned more nature facts and a double major in Environmental Studies and Geography. She also started a re-wilding 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 centres, 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 closer to 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 world is by inspiring joy, connection, and understanding. She brings this philosophy to every tour she leads.

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 maintaining a peace treaty with the local ravens. When she’s not homesteading, Sadie can be found exploring the beaches and forests of this beautiful Island she calls home.