Heartwood Nature Programs

Heartwood offers 100% outside classes for homeschooled kids ages 5-14. Our classes learn through hands-on experiences while hiking, playing, and exploring the forest, water, and field habitats. Mindfulness, Stewardship and Connection are our core values and our classes connect participants to the natural world through learning activities that are authentic, meaningful, relevant, and engaging; mindfulness practices that develop place-awareness, self-awareness, reduce stress and build personal resilience, confidence, independence, teamwork, communication, and leadership skills; stewardship activities focused on developing a deep understanding of the impacts and outcomes of spending time in nature for the space itself and for our own selves; outdoor skill-based learning such as knife work, fire building, foraging, and animal tracking that instills in children a sense of place, independence, self-sufficiency, and ease while being outdoors and in a natural and wild environment.