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.
Current and Upcoming Programs and Events
Nature School
(September 2025-June 2026)
Ages 3-9
Drop-Off Program
Heart-Centered, Curiosity Driven, Nature-Rooted Learning, Growing, and Exploration!
Bugs on Wheels
Family Day
Saturday, April 12th
10 - 12pm
$25 per family- Open to All Ages
A family day focused on all things BUGS- Activities, games, a guided hike & a special presentation from "the bug lady" Nadia from Bugs on Wheels
Summer Camp
June-August 2025
a variety of 1-4 day Programs for kiddos of All ages!
Overnight Adventure Campout!
Bald Mountain State Park
Walnut Program
April 16 - May 7
Wednesdays 11am - 1pm
an introductory program for 3 & 4 year old explorers interested in joining our Cedar Group in the coming year
Bald Mountain State Park
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.