Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center
Mud Creek ELC is a project of Columbia County Soil and Water Conservation District and offers a variety of free hands-on, inquiry based, environmental education programs. Our programs can be adapted to any grade level and integrated into various parts of your school's curriculum. We are also available to develop programs to meet the needs of scout groups and other community organizations for both children and adults.
Program Ideas: Water Quality
Pond/Stream Study
Life of a Tree
Sensing Nature
Wonderful Wetlands
Ecosystem Exploration
Animal Homes and Habitats
Tracks and Traces
Birds of Prey
Fall & Spring Bird Migration
Reptiles and Amphibians
Incredible Insects
Snowshoe Adventures
Create-a-Program
and much more!
Contact: 518-267-3313 or LEANNA.OGRADY@CCSWCD.ORG
The Nature Institute
Location: Harlemville
The Nature Institute, founded in 1998, is a small, independent not-for-profit organization in upstate New York with a proven track record for incisive and thoughtful research studies, publications, and education programs. The Institute serves as a local, national, and international forum for research, education, and the exchange of ideas about the re-visioning of science and technology in an effort to realign humanity with nature. Staff members and adjunct researchers/faculty have authored books and articles while also presenting at conferences, leading workshops, training teachers, and lecturing widely.
Contact: 518-672-0116 or info@natureinstitute.org
Website: https://www.natureinstitute.org/
Find Your Wild - Tes Reed
Location: Berkshire and Columbia Counties
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
Nature Education for Children and Adults - Offering a wide variety of retreats, workshops, individual consulting and wilderness mentoring.
Nature Event Planning, such sessions as:
• Learn Your Land – Your Forest or Mine
• Wild Campfire Cocktail Party
• Guided Hikes
• Foraging Wild Edibles and Primitive Cooking Workshop
• Solo Guided Retreats
• Wild Birthday Parties
Contact: 413-329-8563 or tesreed01230@gmail.com
Website: https://tesreed.com/
Flying Deer Nature Center
Flying Deer Nature Center is a nonprofit wilderness school and community dedicated to mentoring children, youth, adults, and families in deep connection to nature, self, and others.
Since 1996, FDNC has offered nature-immersion programming for people of all ages, through school and homeschool programs, summer camps, corporate curriculums, rites-of-passage experiences, adult programs, and outreach events.
Our work aims not only to teach naturalist practices and wilderness survival skills, but also to foster in participants a lifelong relationship with nature and access to the gifts it brings: resilience, creativity, and the ability to listen deeply to ourselves and to others. We all need the benefits of connecting with the natural world and, in like measure, nature needs our care. This deep and reciprocal relationship with the earth is at the heart of our mission.
Website: https://flyingdeernaturecenter.org/
Wild Wellness
Eric is a MA & NY Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Nationally Certified Forest Therapy Guide serving individuals, couples, and groups in Berkshire and Columbia Counties. From a mobile office, he delivers health and wellness services in homes, schools, parks, trails, slopes, lakes, rivers, and farms. Eric is also the owner and president of Wild Wellness Inc. whose mission is to explore natural alternatives to medicine by reconnecting play, people and places during private and group therapy retreats. He has trained and led multiple therapy dogs in his practice and currently invites his 3.5yr old Siberian Husky to greet and support his clients.
Website: http://Wildwellnessinc.com