Keith is a survival skills instructor, nature connection mentor, author, and founder of Edibly Wild. Based near Hamilton, Ontario, he has spent the past six years teaching children, families, schools, and homeschool communities how to reconnect with nature through hands-on learning, practical skills, and meaningful outdoor experiences.
Driven by a mission to bring more hands-on, nature-based learning into education, Keith combines foraging, survival skills, ecology, and nature awareness into programs that build confidence, resilience, curiosity, and self-reliance. His goal is not simply to teach about nature, but to help people develop a lasting relationship with it.
Drawing on years of studying local plants, wild foods, traditional skills, and outdoor living, Keith teaches participants how to safely identify edible and medicinal plants, forage responsibly, understand local ecosystems, and feel at home in the outdoors. Whether learning to build shelters, track animals, make fire, purify water, navigate through the woods, or discover wild edible plants, students gain practical skills that connect them to both the land and their own capabilities.
Over the past six years, Keith has taught hundreds of children through schools, forest schools, homeschool groups, outdoor education programs, and community workshops across Ontario. His experience includes teaching with the Guelph Outdoor School, one of Ontario’s oldest outdoor education organizations, where he helps foster a deeper connection between young people and the natural world.
Keith is also the author of Athea and the Forest Remedy, a children’s book that encourages young readers to explore the outdoors and discover the wonder, wisdom, and healing gifts found in nature.
When he is not teaching, Keith can often be found exploring forests and fields, harvesting wild foods, preserving seasonal abundance, crafting herbal remedies, making traditional spruce chewing gum, camping and fishing with his daughters, and continuing his lifelong study of the natural world.
Through Edibly Wild, Keith’s mission is to help the next generation develop practical outdoor skills, ecological awareness, resilience, and a lifelong sense of wonder for the living world around them.
