OUR PURPOSE

Reverse the effects of climate change by regenerating landscapes to restore water, soil, biodiversity, and human connection.

Explore Our Approach

Our Mission

Wild Child Regeneration exists to help restore ecological function through regenerative land stewardship, with a particular focus on restoring the water cycle, living soil systems, and long-term resilience.

Our work transforms land into productive, educational, and ecologically functional spaces that support both human and more-than-human communities.

By combining systems thinking, regenerative growing practices, and practical design, we help create landscapes that retain water, rebuild soil health, increase biodiversity, and become more self-sustaining over time.

Our Wild Child Values

  • Build for Regeneration

    We believe landscapes should improve ecological health over time, not simply sustain the status quo. Our work focuses on restoring soil health, supporting biodiversity, strengthening water cycles, and creating systems that become more resilient, productive, and self-sustaining over time.

  • Make Beauty Useful

    We design for beauty, because spaces that open the eye also open the mind to learning, and open the heart to appreciation. They beckon your presence, encourage active participation, and are more likely to thrive in the long term as a result.  Beautiful spaces invite participation, stewardship, and long-term care.

  • Make Room for Wonder

    We take fun & play very seriously. Wonder, curiosity, and delight help people form lasting relationships with place. We intentionally create spaces that invite exploration, participation, sensory engagement, and joy across generations. It’s also how we conduct our work, making us great fun to partner with.

  • Design With, Not For

    We value co-creation, participation, and shared knowledge throughout the design process. We believe the most meaningful and resilient spaces emerge through collaboration with landowners, communities, educators, children, and the living systems already present within a place.

Guiding Principles

  • Work with living systems, not against them

  • Restore water before attempting to solve climate symptoms

  • Build soil as infrastructure

  • Prioritize long-term ecological function over short-term aesthetics

  • Create spaces that educate, nourish, and reconnect people to place

  • Design for resilience, stewardship, and adaptation over time

What Makes This Work Distinct

Rather than treating landscapes as isolated aesthetic projects, we approach land as an interconnected living system where water, soil, vegetation, climate, food systems, biodiversity, and human communities are all linked.

Our work combines:

  • ecological restoration and practical implementation

  • beauty and functionality

  • systems thinking and hands-on stewardship

  • environmental impact and economic viability

Meet our Wildest Child.

Jessica Pelchat, G.Dipl. SR & S, PDC | Founder

Jessica Pelchat is an ecosystem restorer, educator, and regenerative land practitioner focused on water cycle restoration, ecological resilience, and reconnecting people with living systems.

Through Wild Child Regeneration, she works across residential, agricultural, and community spaces to help restore ecological function through regenerative land practices, education, and collaborative stewardship. Her long-term aim is to help bring water cycle restoration into broader public understanding while supporting meaningful, large-scale ecological restoration work.

Jessica is a graduate of the Social Responsibility & Sustainability program at the University of Toronto, is Permaculture Design Certified (PDC), and has studied facets of Indigenous Environmental Science & Practice at the University of Guelph. Her work over the last two decades has centred around sustainability, systems thinking, climate action, education, and building purpose-driven initiatives that create tangible impact.

Over the years, she has served as Chief Sustainability Officer & Executive Vice President for a Canadian Profit 500 company, led the Canadian arm of an award-winning purpose-driven management consulting firm, chaired the CSR Advisory Council for the University of Toronto Sustainability program, served on the Climate Action Advisory Committee for the Municipality of West Grey, and sat on the board of the Permaculture Association of the Northeast (PAN). Across this work, she has focused on helping bridge systems thinking with practical implementation, connecting people, organizations, and land stewards to more regenerative and resilient ways of living, growing, and working with the land. She continues to advise values-aligned organizations, mentor emerging leaders, and advocate for ecological restoration through practical, community-rooted action.

At heart, though, Jessica is someone who simply loves bringing landscapes back to life. For more than 20 years, she has explored regenerative growing methods such as hügelkultur, food forests, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity-focused land stewardship while creating educational spaces, workshops, and community programming that reconnect people with the natural world.

Whether restoring a landscape, designing a sensory garden, teaching a workshop, or helping steward a larger ecological vision, her work is ultimately rooted in the belief that healthier water cycles, living soil, biodiversity, beauty, and human connection are all deeply intertwined.

Regeneration Takes Community

We believe regenerative work should strengthen local relationships, knowledge, and stewardship wherever possible. Rather than relying solely on outside systems, we aim to collaborate with local growers, craftspeople, educators, installers, organizations, and community members throughout the process. By working with local materials, local knowledge, and local participation, landscapes become more resilient, meaningful, and cared for long after implementation is complete. This is part of how we ensure your project is truly regenerative.