Rewilders Is Growing: Expanding Our Habitat Work Into New Spaces

If you’ve been following Rewilders from the early days — back when we planted our first little native garden in a laneway — you’ll know that everything we do starts in the same place: with community, with curiosity, and with the belief that even the smallest patch of ground can support life.

Over the years, that simple idea has grown into a 1km Pollinator Pathway, numerous school partnerships, volunteer planting events, youth programs, and a whole network of neighbours learning and working together. And now, we’re excited to share the next chapter of that journey.

Rewilders is now offering native plant habitat garden services.

Not because we’re “scaling up,” and not because we’re becoming something different — but because the demand for ecological, pollinator-supporting gardens has grown, and we want to help more people bring nature back into the places they steward.

This is a natural extension of the work we already do across public spaces in Palmerston-Little Italy, Seaton Village, and Harbord Village. We’ve learned so much from tending gardens in some of the city’s toughest spaces — dry, salty, compacted soils, constant foot traffic, garbage, and every urban stress you can imagine. These challenges have made us deeply familiar with what thrives in our city’s changing conditions, and we’re ready to share that knowledge more widely.

Why We’re Expanding

Our mission has always been simple: create habitat, support native pollinators, and help people reconnect with the land around them.
Offering services doesn’t change that — it strengthens it.

There’s a growing desire across Toronto for gardens that do more than look good. More homeowners, schools, and businesses are seeking spaces that support biodiversity, absorb carbon, improve water retention, reduce runoff, and contribute meaningfully to the urban ecosystem. Until now, there haven’t been many places to turn for garden design and care that centres native plants and ecological practices.

We want to help fill that gap.

By offering consultation, installation, education, and maintenance services, we can help people realize their goals for healthier, more sustainable spaces — whether it’s a schoolyard, a storefront, a backyard, or a community lot.

Keeping the Heart of Rewilders Intact

One important thing to share:
Our fee-for-service work is separate from the community side of Rewilders. Both will operate independently — but both grow from the same root system.

Everything is still driven by the mission that started in that little laneway garden. We’re still a community-oriented effort. We’re still focused on creating pollinator habitat and restoring connections between people and place. And just as before, beauty is a by-product of ecological health — not the other way around.

Looking Forward

Expanding our services means we can create habitat in places we could never reach before. It removes barriers for people who want to do the right thing for the environment but aren’t sure where to begin. And it allows us to continue doing what we love: helping native plants, insects, and people thrive together.

If you’re curious about what we offer, you can explore our new services page here: rewildersto.ca/services

We’re excited to keep growing with you — one garden, one conversation, one restored patch of land at a time.