community events
firemaking workshop
November 22, 2025 / Nevada City, CA
December 6, 2025 / Berkeley, CA
Learn one of humanity’s oldest and most essential skills. Together we’ll explore everything you need to know to build and tend a fire using only found natural materials.
Guides will teach the basic components and processes of firemaking without lighters or matches, with plenty of time for hands-on practice. You’ll walk away with real-world survival skills, environmental awareness, and a greater appreciation for the patience, focus, and respect required to work with fire.
nature days
November 15, 2025 / Marin County, CA
For teens, ages 14-18
Join Back to Earth guides for a day of fun and connection out on the land. We will play, craft, and learn, as well as revisit many of Back to Earth’s core gratitude and awareness practices. All teens are welcome, whether they are alumni of prior Back to Earth programs or brand new to the organization. They’ll come home tired, refreshed, and a little more at home on the earth.
community hikes
November 27th (Special Thanksgiving walk and gratitude circle)
Berkeley, CA
Everyone is welcome! Youth, families, educators, supporters - come together and spend a few hour outdoors hiking with the Back to Earth crew.
Guides will teach the basic components and processes of firemaking without lighters or matches, with plenty of time for hands-on practice. You’ll walk away with real-world survival skills, environmental awareness, and a greater appreciation for the patience, focus, and respect required to work with fire.
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what we’re reading and writing
Our version of a blog - original thoughts and reposted content, on reconnecting to what is sacred and wild in ourselves and our world.
expanding equity & access in wilderness education
The WILD Scholars Program is a wraparound mentoring and scholarship program for Bay Area high school students from communities who have been historically underrepresented in wilderness education.
meet the back to earth guide and mentor community
We are mentors, climbers, builders, farmers, writers, poets, singers, dancers, medics, leaders, teachers, healers, learners, lovers of earth and sky …