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BEan In Nature offers nature-led immersion camps where children take part in activities such as Ancestral Survival & Wilderness Skills, Wilderness Survival Skills: Fire, Food, Fishing, Forts, & Plant Mysteries and/or Mythical Lore, and ancient living skills. Campers may craft a fire, carve and whittle, create food over the fire, make medicinal salves and tinctures from healing plants, and practice fox walking, stealth, silence, and patience. Other sessions include Fairies, Elves & Dragons, Girls Fairy Survival Camp, Village Defense Games, wild crafts, wild art, ceramics, ukulele, gardening, and fairy world play and folklore.
• Ages: 3–16 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong summer camps running Monday–Friday, generally 9:00 am–3:00 or 3:15 pm, plus Teen Leadership Training offered either as 4 Saturdays or 1 week
BEan In Nature also offers Leaders in Training (LIT/CIT), a Teen/Tween Leadership in Training Camp, and a JR Leadership training program for ages 9–12 (JR LITs). Teen Leadership includes a WANDER AND WONDER TRAINING DAY at Pescadero State Beach Marsh and provides an official BEan Nature-Led Teen Leadership in Training certificate, with all-inclusive registration that covers Training Week, Summer Camp Field Volunteer Weeks, Offsite Adventure Day/s, and a Teen and All Staff celebration day. Additional offerings include BEan @ A Team Homeschool, ECO EARTH SCI INVESTIGATIONSM, FIELD TRIP FRIDAYS for families with stewardship and animal exploration, TNT Backpacking in January 2026 and again in April or May, and optional CPR/FIRST AID training taught via Zoom by Nicole Roma Thurrell, CTRS, WEMT.
Programs are led by professional outdoor nature educators from diverse backgrounds with primitive and naturalist skills. The program director and founder is Marisa Bean, and CPR/FIRST AID training is taught by Nicole Roma Thurrell, CTRS, WEMT, Director of the Institute for Wild Med. BEan In Nature describes its approach as nature-led, inquiry- and play-based, using natural history study as an educational spine and referring to its outdoor settings as an “invisible classroom” in forests, fields, streams, and meadows. The mission statement explains that BEan In Nature mentors use questioning, creative guiding, mentoring, and experiential child-led focus to facilitate learning by doing, with an emphasis on nature awareness, ancestral skills, crafts, and natural history education, and on survival skill awareness and ecology education to foster determination to be part of climate crisis solutions. BEan In Nature is a nonprofit, has received a Woodcrest Foundations Grant to support its mission, and has received a “Best of Outdoor Programming” recognition.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
• Ages: 3–16 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong summer camps running Monday–Friday, generally 9:00 am–3:00 or 3:15 pm, plus Teen Leadership Training offered either as 4 Saturdays or 1 week
BEan In Nature also offers Leaders in Training (LIT/CIT), a Teen/Tween Leadership in Training Camp, and a JR Leadership training program for ages 9–12 (JR LITs). Teen Leadership includes a WANDER AND WONDER TRAINING DAY at Pescadero State Beach Marsh and provides an official BEan Nature-Led Teen Leadership in Training certificate, with all-inclusive registration that covers Training Week, Summer Camp Field Volunteer Weeks, Offsite Adventure Day/s, and a Teen and All Staff celebration day. Additional offerings include BEan @ A Team Homeschool, ECO EARTH SCI INVESTIGATIONSM, FIELD TRIP FRIDAYS for families with stewardship and animal exploration, TNT Backpacking in January 2026 and again in April or May, and optional CPR/FIRST AID training taught via Zoom by Nicole Roma Thurrell, CTRS, WEMT.
Programs are led by professional outdoor nature educators from diverse backgrounds with primitive and naturalist skills. The program director and founder is Marisa Bean, and CPR/FIRST AID training is taught by Nicole Roma Thurrell, CTRS, WEMT, Director of the Institute for Wild Med. BEan In Nature describes its approach as nature-led, inquiry- and play-based, using natural history study as an educational spine and referring to its outdoor settings as an “invisible classroom” in forests, fields, streams, and meadows. The mission statement explains that BEan In Nature mentors use questioning, creative guiding, mentoring, and experiential child-led focus to facilitate learning by doing, with an emphasis on nature awareness, ancestral skills, crafts, and natural history education, and on survival skill awareness and ecology education to foster determination to be part of climate crisis solutions. BEan In Nature is a nonprofit, has received a Woodcrest Foundations Grant to support its mission, and has received a “Best of Outdoor Programming” recognition.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
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