Earth Mentorship Programs is part of a collective of experienced and highly educated naturalist and wilderness skills mentors. Chris Gilmour is the lead mentor for the magority of the programs we run. Other mentors from the collective are frequently brought in to teach and help with certain parts of workshops or when we have larger groups. I was born in Hamilton, Ontario and I was raised in the adjacent city of Burlington. I spent my childhood living a fairly typical suburban middle class life; BMX biking, skateboarding, little league, TV, boy scouts, playing guitar, and getting dirty in the small patches of 'green' spaces Burlington had to offer. more... See more text