Meet Our Teachers

Lesley Labbe

Our farm owner Lesley Labbe is a CNAC Certified Forest and Nature School Practitioner. She is an outdoor educator, organic farmer, wife, and mother of five. Her passion as an outdoor educator comes from a life-long love of nature. From a young age, Lesley could be found searching for salamanders in the woods. As an adult, she realised her dream of becoming an organic farmer.

Lesley has been running an organic farm for the past fifteen years. She has an Outdoor Education certificate from Humber College, has been a leader with Scouts Canada for several years, and worked as an outdoor educator for two seasons with Mighty Oak Elementary's forest program, as well as teaching for Natural Pathways for six years. Lesley enjoys helping students connect with food and the natural world.

Teaching on the farm has been one of the most rewarding experiences of Lesley's life. She loves being part of so much growth in the students, in her co-workers, and in herself... and all the fun they have climbing trees, preparing food, and caring for the animals!

Sherry Postma

Sherry Postma is a CNAC certified Forest School Practitioner and has taken several continuing education courses through the Outdoor Learning School. Her love of nature began in childhood, growing up on a farm just outside the gates of Point Pelee National Park. She spent many an afternoon reading in trees, rafting along the marsh, and walking to the beach. She worked in the garden, and on the farm, making a lifelong connection with farm-to-table foods. She also worked with bird-watching tourists from around the world, serving food and packing lunches for them, and loved listening to their stories and their contagious enthusiasm for migrating species.

Formally educated as a Respiratory Therapist, Sherry has always loved children and has a long history of working with them. She started in her teens coaching figure skating and tennis. As a young mother living in British Columbia, she volunteered as a teacher of spiritual exploration and a coming-of-age mentor. Her passion for the respect of children and holistic childcare eventually led her to study nature and art-based alternative education styles and to use these methods in homeschooling her children.

Wanting to bring this style of childcare and education to more children, she began branching out and connecting with children and families as a Waldorf inspired home childcare provider, a farm and forest school teacher with a local alternative school and charity, a homeschool co-operative education leader and a Waldorf-inspired early years program leader. She has also taken her passion for travel and learning to Los Angeles and Banff Alberta where she studied to be a certified children's yoga teacher and led and participated in workshops on outdoor education.

Sherry is always seeking opportunities for growth and adventure and loves learning alongside (and from!) children and fellow educators. She sees working with children as a sacred task and feels blessed to be able to be in nature with them.