Connect with Nature

Description: Come spend time with the earth in a slow and deliberate way.  Explore ways the earth endlessly, patiently and bountifully gives to its human neighbors. Explore ways humans can connect with the earth in the ways of gratitude, reciprocity, kindness, and collaboration. The long-term health of humans and earth are tightly linked. 

Nature Therapy Guide Hughes Kraft and Naturalist Jack Flanagan are combining efforts to offer you an opportunity to prepare for EARTH DAY, April 22^nd, by connecting deeply with nature. Their complementary practices of appreciating sensory experiences while moving mindfully outdoors will make for a unique experience.  

This three-hour experience will be in the woods and fields of Pineland Farms. Dress warm. Be prepared to be outside for 3 hours. Snacks and tea will be provided. 

Hughes Kraft is a Certified Nature Therapy Guide, writer and psychotherapist with a private practice in Portland, Maine. He enjoys sharing ways to build bridges between the human and more than human world.

Jack Flanagan is a psychotherapist in group practice with Wellspace Maine. He has an oddly varied career as an outdoor educator, guide, carpenter, corporate trainer and counselor. He enjoys promoting curiosity in nature without a guidebook. 

Questions? Contact the Education Department: 207.650.3031 or education@pinelandfarms.org

Are you visiting with a group of 10 or more? Please contact the Education Department before purchasing your tickets. 

 
Directions to the Education Barn: Follow GPS directions to the Market at 15 Farm View Drive, New Gloucester, Maine. Continue past the Market on Farm View Drive and take your first left onto Valley Farm Rd. Follow Valley Farm Rd. until you see the Smokehouse Visitors Center (white silo) on the right-hand side. Take the right-hand turn immediately after the Smokehouse down to the Family Farmyard. The Education Barn is the largest barn in the farmyard.