The Fast + Best Way to Learn About Nature
You won't learn this stuff in a traditional classroom. You need to experience it. We'll guide you with the best instruction and even be there on an in-person trip. Choose your aim below.
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Seeing
Plants & Fungi
Learn to identify the plants and fungi around you and use them daily.
They don't teach this in school!
Education used to be about making fires, foraging and using wild plants. We believe those are fundamental human skills that everyone needs to connect you to a place. Good news! It only takes a short time to pick up. That's why we're here; to guide you on this human experience and provide a simple blueprint for a good life in the modern world we live in!
See our Courses
FREE Mini-Course
Learn to Make Flour from Your Oak Tree!
Nature is incredible and we're part of it. Learn how to take a plant and turn it into something you can put in teas, or as a powerful medicine.
Teach Me Now!COURSES
The.WILD.Classroom
Learn about Nature like our Ancestors did
Edible Plants
Forage plants in the wild and have confidence to use them safely!
Fungi in a Day
Confidently identify mushrooms and then which ones you can eat in the wild.
Nature Stories
Learn to be a nature storyteller in film, online or for NatGeo.
Survival 101
Feel comfortable in the wild! Take your skills from 0 to 10!
Winter Skills
Thrive in winter and come with us to the arctic on a 5 day trip!
Knots
After this you will know ALL the knots you need to thrive outdoors.
NICE TO MEET YOU
Bringing the Wild Back Into Edu Since 2003
I’m Rob Nelson, a biologist who has spent more than two decades teaching people how to experience nature, not just learn about it.
Since 2003, we have created thousands of educational videos for classrooms around the world and produced television content for Discovery, BBC and NatGeo. But over time, I realized something: information alone does not change people. You need experience with like-mined people.
TheWildClassroom exists to bridge that gap.
These guided courses and trips are designed to help you move beyond passive learning and into direct engagement with the natural world. Whether you want to practice skills, a deeper understanding of ecology, or a renewed sense of awe, this is a place to rebuild that connection.
See the Trips that add to these Courses
"Working with Rob helped me change my diet and get as fit as I was in high-school!"
- Andrew Manzella
"Last year, I took a trip from Rob in the arctic. He and Jonas are incredible teachers..."
- Elise Maddock
"I watch these videos with my kids and they love it!"
- Jordan Smith
1-on-1 Guiding
Coaching via the Ancient BluePrint
If you know are depressed, anxious or stressed, it is likely a disconnect between how we evolved to live and our current modern world. Our bodies were not built for this tech-filled life of screens, seclusion and nature deficit. There is a solution for it though - a simple blueprint, that if followed, solves most of those problems. This is the foundation of every course, and something I will guide you on personally via my new book, (available with the course).
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