Explore our featured projects

Explore our featured projects

Driven by a curiosity to explore new approaches and build with purpose, these feature projects are examples of where the bold thinking of many has met thoughtful creation in the real world.

Each example is meaningful work to us which highlights the ground-up innovation in braiding knowledge that is the signature of the Green Feet’s work.

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See our minds at work

Pine River Watershed Initiative Network, Integrated Watershed Management Plan

The PRWIN has the vision for a "Clean water and a healthy ecosystem within the Pine River Watershed”. In order to collaborate across multiple directives, organizations, and approaches, and Integrated approach was required for the watershed. This meant everyone working together.

The Pine River watershed had been marked as one of 6 of Environment Canadas Top Priority Areas for watershed health due to agriculture, deforestation and cottaging industries

Map and aerial view of Pine River Watershed Initiative Network, McLarty Centre, showing Beavert Pond, Back Shelter, Education Centre, Frog Pond, and Bus Parking areas, with directions to take Concession 6E to Sideroad 20 and turn north at Sideroad 20 near the Huron Kinloss Landfill.

Thanks to the dedication and commitment of its board members, as well as the remarkable leadership and vision of its Project Coordinator, Green Feet was honored to be able to incorporate Analog Forestry into their Integrated Watershed Management Plan. This single organization has now planted a diversity of 15+ different species of over 375,000 trees and counting across this 200+ square km watershed area.

Learn more about the PRWIN here

CRITICAL RELATIONSHIPS PROJECT , Tahltan Nation territory, British Columbia, Canada

Illustration of a mountain with a braid showing the braided approach of the Critical Relationships framework. The right side of the image contains text outlining objectives, community, nature, and science concepts braided through this approach.

Green Feet Ecosystem Services is a core collaborative partner with the Global Indigenous Development Trust and members of the Tahltan Nation in the development of the groundbreaking Critical Relationships Project.

This initiative co-created an Indigenous framework adjacent to NRCAN’s Critical Mineral Strategy that re-imagines mineral exploration as stewardship, with the first steps in the mining life cycle beginning through a lens of Indigenous governance, ancestral knowledge systems, stewardship and true-value Natural Capital accounting. Piloted on active mineral claim sites of Spirit Rock Resources - the worlds first Indigenous initiated, owned, and developed mining operation - for the 95,000km² of Tahltan Territory in Northwestern British Columbia, the framework braids Indigenous ways of knowing with Western science .

See the Story map here!

People exploring a rocky outdoor area with trees and cliffs in the background. An elder with white hair is sitting on rocks, smiling, holding a feather. A younger woman, a man, and a woman with glasses are standing observing the landscape.
Mountain landscape with a tall pine tree in the foreground and a river below, snow-capped mountains in the distance under a partly cloudy sky. Two women are standing on a rocky ledge in the lower part of the image.
Learn more about this project

Aerial imagery and analysis

SEE OUR EYES IN THE SKY AT WORK

Eagle eye UAS Project, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada

Aerial view of a sandy, U-shaped area with small islands covered in trees, surrounded by dense green forest. 
The goal of this project was to collect aerial images of Bruce Power supported projects where environmental protection and restoration actions have happened and process those images into science-backed communications about the value of the services those ecosystems provided.  

This was a very new application for technology that focused on using current technology - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) and software (Geographic Information Systems and analysis software) - to help communicate the return on investment from restored and protect land. This technology presented images in a way that made it easier to understand what our land was trying to tell us.

D3 Braiding knowledge Project, Northern Ontario, Canada

A hand-drawn infographic illustrating the process of using drones and sensors to identify needs in land Stewardship efforts for environmental communication, emphasizing collaboration, project investments, capacity building, and creating value for land management.

This project focused on braiding knowledge in a way that would create an environmental communications process for communicating the unique relationships and value of Ecosystem Services for Farmers and Aniishnaabe using drones. Called the D3 process for its use of Drones, Data and Deep communications, this process became a standard operating procedure for many.

Aerial view of a dense forest with a small lake reflecting the sky, surrounded by trees with green and some red foliage, under a clear blue sky.
Three people sitting at a table with drone equipment doing drone education with Green Feet to build capacity, inside a wooden log cabin, engaged in a conversation while handling drone controllers.

seasonal services

SEE OUR boots on the ground AT WORK

Fairy lake restoration project, southampton ON, Canada

A peaceful Fairy lake with reflections of trees on the calm water where restoration work has been completed, a fountain spraying water in the distance, and houses on a hill in the background. Tall grass and foliage in the foreground frame the scene.

  • Ecological management planning for the lake

  • Wildlife and SAR Habitat creation, including bird, bat, and duck boxes (made by local wood crafter)

  • Installation of Biofiltration area for stormwater drainage

  • Installation of Mycofiltration for initial explorations of Biofiltration

  • Stream Clearing

  • Replanting disturbed areas with native plants

Thanks to the support of SauGreen for the Environment, Green Feet was able to work alongside 8 different organizations to assist with a number of activities designed to restore the health of Fairy lake. This included:

Learn more about the ongoing work on this Treasured Lake

analog forestry, Guantanamo, Cuba

Group of people sitting outdoors during Green Feets work in Cuba planning reforestation activities for analog forestry during an education workshop, some holding children, with trees and sunlight in the background.

The Falls Brook Center is a Sustainability Education Center Located in Woodstock, NB. A partnership was formed between the FBC and the "Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales" (Forestry Research Institute) to implement Analog Forestry, a method of reforesting using a diversity of plants that provide foods, medicines, pollination services and more on 14 farms in Guantanamo Cuba. 

Green Feet owner Amanda Hutter completing reforestation monitoring and planning smiling and giving a thumbs-up while holding a notebook in a reforested wooded outdoor area.

Green Feet Owner worked with this program in part to continue the Analog Forestry Monitoring and Maintenance, and help to facilitate Community engagement and education sessions over the course of 8 months.  

A group of children planting native food plants for reforestation in a reforestation workshop and women planting a seed in the soil with supervision from two adult cuban women, in an outdoor garden area surrounded by banana plants and a wire fence.

On these 14 farms, nearly 40 different species were used to help restore areas of farmland that had been over farmed from Sugar Cane plantations and contaminated with saltwater from the saltwater of the ocean being soaked into the ground through osmosis in groundwater systems.

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