Wild Puddle is a not-for-profit initiative that aims to introduce nature into urban areas through the use of small, circular plots of land that are left untouched, allowing nature to take over.
Wild Puddle started as a backyard experiment of a small, circular patch of land left untouched to see what nature would do. That idea quickly grew into something bigger.
More than just a concept, Wild Puddles are living experiments that are designed to improve biodiversity, promote well-being, and educate the future generation about the natural world.
Pick an area 5-7 meters in diameter in a schoolyard, park, or urban lot. If it’s paved, remove the hard surface and restore the soil.
Use a rope, posts, or natural markers to designate the Wild Puddle. This helps protect the space while allowing observation from the outside.
Keep a log of changes that includes new plants, insects, weather patterns. Over time, you’ll see nature take its course.
Wild Puddles are popping up in schools, parks, and urban spaces, creating small but mighty ecosystems in places that need them most. Each one is unique, evolving based on the local climate, soil, and surrounding environment.
Wild Puddle gives students a living landscape to observe geography firsthand, from local landforms and weather patterns to ecosystems and human impact, all while making place-based learning real, relevant, and rooted.
Wild Puddle offers real-life applications for math: students can measure growth, calculate biodiversity percentages, map circular areas, chart data over time, and engage with numbers in a tangible outdoor setting.
Wild Puddle is a living lab where students can explore species interactions, succession, plant life cycles, and biodiversity in real time, while deepening biology lessons through immersive, inquiry-based observation.
Wild Puddle invites students to explore how land has been used and valued over time, sparking conversations about Indigenous stewardship, industrialization, and how history shapes our relationship with nature today.
The Wild Puddle landscape plan can be easily replicated at any site.
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