This page is intended to connect you with a broader network of related resources — in our region and beyond.
Nature-Connection Resources
What the Robin Knows
This book is an excellent resource for diving into the world of Bird Language, and launching this awareness-expanding Core Routine in your life. This groundbreaking book unites indigenous knowledge, up-to-date research, and the author’s nature experiences spanning four decades to lead us toward a deeper connection with animals, and a deeper connection with ourselves.
Coyote’s Guide
coyotesguide.com
This book passes on the subtle nature-based educational methods that were used long ago, when subsistence lifestyles kept humankind close to the natural cycles of the earth. It presents a fun, empowering and healing approach to nature education that has proven effective for countless educational organizations, families, and individuals of all ages.
Kamana Naturalist Training Program Workbook Series
wildernessawareness.org/kamana
This workbook series is an experiential four-level home study course through which readers gain a comprehensive naturalist training background. Students learn wildlife tracking, bird language, survival and native living skills, traditional herbalism, naturalist mentoring and more. Students become confident naturalists, melding modern field ecology with the skills of a native scout.
The Art of Mentoring
8shields.com/programs/art-of-mentoring
The Art of Mentoring is a weeklong experiential nature-based program designed to help participants remember the ways of our ancestors and learn to apply these ways to our modern communities. The intention behind this program is that we might once again live in healthy, regenerative communities—villages where people of all ages are in deep relationship with the land, each other and themselves.
The Tracker
This book is the epic story of Tom Brown Jr.’s adventures into a realm of deep nature connection that has set a precedence of discovery, learning and transformation in nature for hundreds of nature schools across the globe. It follows the story of Tom’s encounter, and subsequent decade of apprenticeship with, an Apache scout and tracker of astonishing physical and spiritual capabilities, named, Grandfather.
Nature Tracking
naturetracking.com
Jonah Evans’ online resource for wildlife tracking.
iTrack Wildlife
naturetracking.com/itrackwildlife.com
This app is excellent for identifying animal tracks and sign in the field using a handheld mobile device. It’s fun, easy to use, contains hundred of high-resolution photos and is filled with accurate information.
Traditional Tanners
braintan.com
Based in Ashland, Oregon, Traditional Tanners offers consulting services, an online store, and a publishing arm specializing in media regarding traditional tanning and leather crafting.
Bird Language Leaders
birdlanguage.com
Thomas J. Elpel’s Web World Portal
hollowtop.com
Children & Nature Network
childrenandnature.org
Wildwood Survival
wildwoodsurvival.com
Primitive Ways
primitiveways.com
Paleo Planet
paleoplanet.net
Primitive Technology
primitivetechnology.wordpress.com
Affiliate Wilderness Schools
Woodland Ways
Philmont, New York
woodlandways.com
Tamakoce Wilderness School
Grafton, New York
tamakocewildernessprograms.com
Earthwork Programs
Williamsburg, Massachusetts
earthworkprograms.com
Wolf Tree Programs
Montague, Massachusetts
wolftreema.com
Wild Earth
New Paltz, New York
wildearth.org
Institute for Natural Learning
Brattleboro, Vermont
ifnaturallearning.com
Vermont Wilderness School
Brattleboro, Vermont
vermontwildernessschool.org
Two Coyotes
Monroe, Connecticut
twocoyotes.org
Primitive Pursuits
Ithaca, New York
primitivepursuits.com
Earthwalk Vermont
Plainfield, Vermont
earthwalkvermont.org
White Pine Programs
Cape Neddick, Maine
whitepineprograms.org
Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School
Pine Barrens, New Jersey
trackerschool.com
Sassafrass
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
sassafrasmvy.org
Living Earth School
Charlottesville, Virginia
livingearthva.com
Wilderness Awareness School
Duvall, Washington
wildernessawareness.org
Flying Cloud Institute
New Marlborough, Massachusetts
flyingcloudinstitute.org
Like-Minded Organizations
The Abode of the Message
New Lebanon, New York
theabode.org
Abode Farm CSA
New Lebanon, NY
abodefarm.com
Abode Farm CSA is a cooperatively run, horse-powered farm in New Lebanon, New York, producing vegetables, herbs, and flowers for CSA members, local businesses, schools, and farmers markets.
The 8 Shields Institute
Belinas, California
8shields.org
Climbing Tree Farm
New Lebanon, New York
climbingtreefarm.com
CyberTracker
trackercertification.com
Northeast Wildlife Trackers
northeastwildlifetrackers.com
Soul Fire Farm
Petersburg, New York
soulfirefarm.com
Uprising Farm
West Lebanon, NY
facebook.com/uprisingfarm.org