Elliott Groen - Folly as a reminder to not take ourselves too seriously, to open up new space for collective explorations, and to be joyful from a conifer stand in The Greater Tkaronto Bioregion, Ontario

Awakening Lands

Elliott is a native of Burlingtin, ON, but was raised in the Netherlands and has lived in Sweden and the British Columbia Interior. After working for a decade as a chef, carpenter, and farmer, he eventually settled into the environmental field and graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming's Forest Tech Program with the Indigenous Designation Perspective. He has since started his own consulting business focusing on forestry and ecological restoration, and cooperatively manages sustainable forestry efforts across two land trusts in Ontario. He enjoys leading bioregional learning processes in his community, including guided nature hikes and kinship walks, black ash workshops, and creek and forest cleanups. He has conducted assessments and analyses of local watersheds and regional supply chains, and hosted talks with youth and students about community-based learning and local resources to connect with the land.

Support Elliott’s work by supporting the work of Ontario Woodlot (https://ontariowoodlot.com/) and the Kawartha Land Trust (https://kawarthalandtrust.org/).

A word from Elliott: Acknowledgements to many other people and organizations that I work with. To honour those relationships I offer that people can instead of or in addition to checking out those links above reach out to me personally and efficiently describe (an aspect of) what they are working on and I may be able to provide similarly personal and efficient links that may be of interest to them.

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