Whether it’s learning sustainable garden design or getting to know the land around you through foraging or mycology, discover opportunities to connect with nature.
Local Resources
Shades of Green Permaculture
Shades of Green is a leading provider of high-quality learning experiences. They offer training in permaculture, resilience, nature connection, and ecology - practical skills that address some of the world's most pressing challenges. Their work embodies the radical notion that our actions as humans can regenerate the health of the land.
Concrete Jungle
Concrete Jungle transforms overlooked and underutilized fruit trees and land into a year-round food source for food banks, shelters, and people in need. Their purely educational offerings pop up from time to time, but whether you join them on a pick or volunteer at a farm workday, you’re sure to learn a ton.
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Trees Atlanta protects and improves Atlanta’s urban forest by planting, conserving, and educating. Education is at the core of their mission. The organization strives to serve a common goal: giving members of their community the knowledge and skills to protect the natural resources that are essential to our quality of life.
Mushroom Club of Georgia
The Mushroom Club of Georgia is an educational organization whose purpose is to promote the enjoyment, study, and exchange of information about wild mushrooms. Everyone who has an interest in wild mushrooms is welcome to become a member. Join the MCG for informative lectures and mushroom forays.
Online Education
When it comes to nature connection, nothing is quite like an in-person workshop, but there are some truly wonderful learning opportunities to be found online.
Milkwood Permaculture: This fantastic permaculture education center based in Tasmania offers interesting, accessible workshops in a number of sustainability and regenerative skills.
Wild Abundance: With online workshops in everything from gardening and fermentation to hide tanning, this collection of online classes will help you gain practical skills for growing food, living off the land, and thriving through tough times no matter where you are.
Mycologos: Discover everything the world of fungi has to offer with online mycology courses in everything from the applied sciences of mushrooms to the practical arts of working with and cultivating them.
Chestnut School Online Foraging Course: This 375-hour course will teach you everything you need to know to safely and ethically identify and harvest edible and medicinal wild plants through most of the year.
Free Permaculture Online Course: This self-directed, 52-class series provides you with a solid overview of permaculture basics and how they can be applied in your home, garden, and community.
Homestead Favorites
Check out some of these fun and exciting leaders in the nature and sustainability landscape. We endeavor to feature numerous BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices in this space, as they have historically been under-represented in the craft and homestead movements despite being leaders in them.
Queer Nature: A gorgeous account exploring ecophilosophy, place-based skills, our role among our fellow relations, decolonializing ecology, and how to be better ancestors.
Black Forager: Alexis Nikole not only gives you the scoop on edible plants and ideas for delicious vegan preparations, but she’s also hilarious - bonus!
Outdoor Afro HQ: Outdoor Afro is leading the way for inclusion in outdoor recreation, nature, and conservation for all!
Intersectional Environmentalist: Intersectional Environmentalism is an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet.
Mycosymbiotics: William-Padilla Brown takes mushroom knowledge to a whole new level. Ecological Research Laboratory + Decentralized Whole Systems Design School.
Pascal Baudar: This author, wild food artist, traditional food preservationist, & naturalist takes it to the next level when it comes to wild foods and foraging.
Wild Food Love: This hub shares the experiences of foragers and wildcrafters worldwide. Grab a basket and get in on the fun.