Flagship Property · Niagara Escarpment, Ontario
Kimbercote
Conservation land, education campus, restoration site, and field science station — on one Escarpment property.
Kimbercote
The first full expression of the Wilde Land model — a shared working campus on the Niagara Escarpment where conservation, education, and science happen on the same land.
Kimbercote is the flagship property of Wilde Land Conservation and Education Corporation and the first full expression of our conservation and education model.
The property was purchased to conserve land for education, science, ecological restoration, and long-term community benefit. Kimbercote functions as an integrated education, conservation, and field science campus, rather than a conventional single-program site.
Wilde Land owns, manages, protects, and stewards the property for conservation and educational purposes. Partner organizations operate approved educational, childcare, science, restoration, and stewardship programs on the land under a shared not-for-profit mission.
This creates a different kind of conservation model.
The land is protected, but it is also alive with learning, stewardship, research, restoration, and responsibility.
Kimbercote entrance — Est. 1974
Niagara Escarpment, Ontario
A living campus on the Niagara Escarpment
Kimbercote Campus · Niagara Escarpment, Ontario
The Model
A Living Conservation and Education Campus
Kimbercote brings together conservation land, outdoor education, licensed childcare, elementary and secondary education, ecological restoration, native plant production, field science, environmental programming, youth leadership, and community partnerships — on one Escarpment property.
Rather than each organization acquiring and managing its own land, Wilde Land owns, manages, and actively stewards the property for conservation and educational purposes. Partner organizations operate approved educational, childcare, science, restoration, and stewardship programs on the land under a shared not-for-profit mission. The land is shared. The work is distinct.
This creates a campus ecology.
Each organization has its own role, but the land is the common foundation.
At Kimbercote
Organizations at Kimbercote
Five not-for-profit organizations sharing one protected property — each with its own mission, all rooted in the same land.
An outdoor, experiential, academically grounded school where students learn through nature, challenge, responsibility, and meaningful work.
Hundred Acre Woods Preschool
A nature-based early years program connecting young children to land, play, development, and outdoor learning.
Grow WILDE expands the reach of land-based learning through curriculum, teacher training, outdoor education, and community programming. Its work supports schools and communities connecting students to land, ecology, and responsibility.
WILDE Beginnings Preschool
An early childhood program rooted in nature, relationship, movement, and developmentally meaningful learning.
A science and education organization contributing environmental learning, food systems, restoration, global education, and community programming.
How Kimbercote Is Used
A Not-for-Profit Education and Conservation Campus
Kimbercote is a not-for-profit education and conservation campus. The property is used for outdoor education, licensed childcare, field science, ecological restoration, land stewardship, native species production, community learning, and student-led conservation work.
The organizations operating at Kimbercote are aligned around a shared purpose: to help children and communities learn from, care for, and restore the land. Wilde Land owns, protects, manages, and stewards the property so this work can continue over the long term.
Kimbercote is held and stewarded for conservation, education, ecological restoration, and long-term community benefit.
Planning Document
Kimbercote Masterplan 2024
The Kimbercote Masterplan documents the long-term vision for the campus — how the land is organized, how the organizations relate to one another on the property, and how ecological restoration, education, and stewardship are integrated across the site.
It is a working document: a record of where the campus is, and a framework for where it is going.
Kimbercote Masterplan 2024
PDF document
Kimbercote
Together, these organizations show how one protected property can support a broader educational and ecological ecosystem.
Kimbercote is not just a place where learning happens. It is part of what is being learned.
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