About the Owner

Lee-Ann Chevrette was born and raised in northern Ontario. She spent youth exploring the forest surrounding her father's remote camp, near Timmins, where her curiosity and love of plants, trees and wild places blossomed.

This love has deepened over the years, as she has explored a number of dimensions of the plant world, including forest and plant ecology, botany, herbalism, ethnobotany, and wild edible and medicinal plants. Her most recent wonderings and wanderings are exploring the realm of plant behaviour and intelligence.

Lee-Ann has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology & Environmental Protection from the University of Guelph and a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from Lakehead University (Northern Environments & Cultures). She spent a decade working as a forest ecologist, wildlife researcher and environmental educator in northern Ontario, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the western Arctic region of the Northwest Territories-where she had the privilege of living and working with the Gwich'in people. She has also spent time in the tropical rainforests of Guatemala and the Brazilian Amazon, where she studied plants, and paddled her canoe.

She is a Chartered Herbalist through Dominion Herbal College in Vancouver, and a certified Forest Therapy Guide with the Global Institute of Forest Therapy (GIFT). 

Lee-Ann lives with her husband and teenagers in Thunder Bay, where she continues to be inspired by the rugged beauty of the north shore of Lake Superior. She also loves to canoe and kayak, garden, care for her house plants, take photos of plants and trees, and occasionally paint...you guessed it-plants and trees.