The gap Grove closes
You asked what they did today.
“Nothing.”
Here's what “nothing” actually was: a dam across a creek. Forty minutes of testing which rocks hold against the current, an argument with three other kids about where the big one goes, and one flooded boot. None of it made it home. Grove sends it home while the boots are still wet.
The best part of nature school is also the hardest to prove.
How Grove works
From a muddy moment to a lasting record.
01 · Notice
Thirty seconds in the field.
Snap a photo or record a voice note, tag the kids, put the phone away. That's the whole job in the field. No signal at the creek? Grove saves everything on the phone and syncs once the school is back in range.
02 · Draft & approve
The teacher says it. Grove writes it down.
The teacher said it; Grove drafts it, with the skills the moment might show. At lunch she fixes what's off and approves. Nothing reaches a family without her sign-off. How the AI works →
Field note · Draft for review
The dam held. Sami tested every rock first.
Sami spent forty minutes at the creek testing which rocks would hold against the current, rebuilding each time one washed loose…
03 · Keep
A record that builds itself.
A short digest each month; at term's end, the Grove Record — best photos, the season's story, skills evidence, and a personal note from the teacher. The full export is a family's from day one.
Sami's growth · Autumn term
Sept → DecSept — watches from the bank. Dec — plans the route and talks Theo across. 42 field notes — evidence, never scores.
Privacy, by architecture
Every school is its own grove.
Anyone can promise privacy in a policy, and policies get rewritten. Grove's promises are built into how the system works. They would be hard to break even on purpose.
Why Grove exists
“I built Grove because I'm a Forest School parent. I kept asking my son what he did all day in the woods, and the answer deserved better than ‘nothing.’”
Built by a Forest School parent, for Forest School communities across Canada
Fair questions
The ones we hear first.
Does the AI replace a teacher's judgment?
No. The teacher sees the moment, says what happened, and approves every word before a family reads it. The tool types; it never decides what a moment means, and it never grades or assesses a child. How the AI works →
Where does our data live?
In Canada, under Canadian privacy law, with each school on its own isolated database. No ads, no data sales, and nothing your school captures is used to train AI models.
Can our school use Grove today?
Grove is currently piloting with NSEC in Ontario and onboarding a small group of Canadian pilot schools. Pricing will be announced in spring 2027. Book a demo →
Get the Grove app.
Grove is free for families at pilot schools. If your school uses Grove, download the app and sign in with the account your school set up for you.
Launching September 2026 — pilot schools will be notified first.
School not on Grove yet? Tell them about it · Running a school? Book a demo