Guiding Kids in Playful Connection with the Natural World
Raising Earth's Stewards
Encouraging playful relationship building between children and the living environment around them.
a space for exploring, questioning, and understanding the Natural world and its inhabitants.
Providing opportunities for families to cultivate an on-going relationship with the earth to inspire generational change in how we care for it.
Learning by Heart
Cultivating a deep awareness of the cycles of the Earth and ourselves through immersive, experiential learning.
A Focus on connection, play, following passions, imagination, and knowing our inward and outward selves - Nourishing Children as their WHOLE selves.
Supporting an awareness of Mind, Body, and Spirit through interactions with nature and community.
2024-2025 Nature School Registration Now Open!
Current and Upcoming Programs and Events
Nature School
(September 2024-June 2025)
Ages 3-9
Drop-Off Program
Heart-Centered, Curiosity Driven, Nature-Rooted Learning, Growing, and Exploration!
Bald Mountain State Park
*Current Openings on Thursdays*
Summer Camp
June-August 2025
a variety of 1-4 day Programs for kiddos of All ages!
Overnight Adventure Campout!
Bald Mountain State Park
Oxford Virtual Academy Partnership
(Fall 2024 & Spring 2025)
Grades K-5
Hybrid Learning Program Available to All Families in our Area!
Bald Mountain State Park
Mondays 10am-12 & 12:30-2:30pm
Fridays 10am - 12
We acknowledge that the we gather as Friend of the Woods on the traditional land of the Wyandot of Anderdon People- past and present. We give thanks to these hosts for care taking this land for thousands of years, for their countless sacrifices, for their Elders and knowledge keepers, and for their youth whose very existence is proof of their resilience as a people. It is these true founders of this land that we are endowed.
We also give gratitude to the land that we our on. We honor that we share this land with the home of many trees, squirrels, deer and all the other living plants and creatures of this forest. Out of respect and gratitude, we are committed to continuing, to learn how to be better stewards of this land and teach the next generation as well.