Oak Tree Adult Nature Class Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:30 pm
A Nature Connection and Ancestral Skills Immersion Experience
This class is full. If you're interested in joining our wait list, please email [email protected]. And please take a look at next year's class!

This program is for adults who wish to deepen their connection with nature, themselves and others, and to learn ancestral skills for finding ourselves at home in the out of doors. We are building a nature connected community, and we invite you to be part of it!
In this class we will:
Wander on the land
Experience sensory expansion practices
Dance with natural mystery
Gather around a camp-fire in a hand-built shelter
Learn about safety in wild spaces
And practice skills such as:
Details
Class meets at Nature and Nurture Farm in Dexter, and sometimes at Sunward Cohousing Community on Wednesdays from 4:30-7:30 pm from March 14 – April 4. Please pay on a sliding scale from $125-100/adult.
In this class we will:
Wander on the land
Experience sensory expansion practices
Dance with natural mystery
Gather around a camp-fire in a hand-built shelter
Learn about safety in wild spaces
And practice skills such as:
- Making and tending fire
- Wild edibles
- Archery
- Burned Wood Bowls
- Making cordage
- Hide preparation
- Animal tracking
- Hearth-fired pottery
- Land stewardship
- Storytelling
- Bird language
- And more…
Details
Class meets at Nature and Nurture Farm in Dexter, and sometimes at Sunward Cohousing Community on Wednesdays from 4:30-7:30 pm from March 14 – April 4. Please pay on a sliding scale from $125-100/adult.

Instructor
Rowena Conahan is a founder of Nature Learning Community, where she teaches nature connection and outdoors skills for people of all ages, and consults with educators seeking to increase outdoors experience for their students. She’s an anthropologist and Montessori teacher, with background as a homeschool parent and assistant in a Waldorf-based forest kindergarten. She attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey and Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring. She’s currently a student in the Kamana Naturalist Training program, and volunteers for the global 8 Shields movement. She’s also a founding member of Sunward Cohousing Community, where she’s lived and learned for 20 years.
Rowena Conahan is a founder of Nature Learning Community, where she teaches nature connection and outdoors skills for people of all ages, and consults with educators seeking to increase outdoors experience for their students. She’s an anthropologist and Montessori teacher, with background as a homeschool parent and assistant in a Waldorf-based forest kindergarten. She attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey and Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring. She’s currently a student in the Kamana Naturalist Training program, and volunteers for the global 8 Shields movement. She’s also a founding member of Sunward Cohousing Community, where she’s lived and learned for 20 years.

Instructor
Courtney is a re-wilding enthusiast with a passion for bringing nature connection, culture repair and the art of mentoring to our local community. Courtney is a homeschooling mother of three young children, a gardener, former Ayurvedic Practitioner and herbalist, and lover of sacred music. She loves wandering, encountering flora and fauna, and sharing those stories with others. Her daily goal is to spend as much time outdoors as possible, especially with children in the spirit of play and wonder.
Courtney is a re-wilding enthusiast with a passion for bringing nature connection, culture repair and the art of mentoring to our local community. Courtney is a homeschooling mother of three young children, a gardener, former Ayurvedic Practitioner and herbalist, and lover of sacred music. She loves wandering, encountering flora and fauna, and sharing those stories with others. Her daily goal is to spend as much time outdoors as possible, especially with children in the spirit of play and wonder.