About GROW Bangkok

Connecting Children to Nature in Bangkok

GROW Learning Gardens is an innovative educational initiative founded by Dan Goustan Bodin, a landscape architect and permaculture designer passionate about supporting urban biodiversity. Our team of bilingual Thai-English facilitators are trained in child safeguarding and dedicated to helping children connect with nature through experiential learning.

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GROW Learning Gardens exists to rewild childhood in Bangkok

We believe children understand ecology best when their hands are planting seeds, their feet are squelching in mud, and their eyes are tracking butterflies—not just reading about them. Through our Forest School programs and biodiverse gardens, we create spaces where kids aged 4-12 reconnect with nature’s rhythms, discovering how food grows, why bugs matter, and what it means to care for living systems. More than an extracurricular, this is where resilience takes root through calculated risks (like whittling sticks or lighting fires), where science comes alive in ladybug lifecycles, and where "play" becomes the foundation for environmental stewardship. Because the children who knead soil between their fingers today will grow into the earthkeepers of tomorrow.

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Dan Goustan BODIN

As a landscape architect and permaculture designer, Dan brings over 8 years of experience creating nature programs that make children's eyes light up. Father to two young explorers himself, he designed GROW's unique curriculum blending bushcraft skills, edible gardening, and ecological wisdom. Whether teaching knife safety or his grandma's famous salad dressing recipe, Dan believes "the best learning happens when mud gets under fingernails.

Phor Phatarinee

With a decade of outdoor education experience and Forest School Level 3 certification, Phor ensures every activity is as safe as it is exciting. Fluent in both Thai and English, she specializes in turning bug hunts into science adventures and calm moments into nature connections. Parents often remark how she "speaks the language of curious children.

Schools and Organizations Who Grow With Us

Our Learning Community

We design playful Forest School programs where kids thrive, teachers trust, and parents see tangible growth.

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