Nature’s Mystery Awareness School was founded in 2012 by executive director Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga (pictured above).

From 2012 until 2020 our efforts were focused on “cultivating a peaceful, socially just, and ecologically regenerative future in the hearts and minds of today’s youth” we accomplished this mission through the establishment of the Fawn Lily farm and forest kindergarten, after school courses, summer camps, and three year coming of age, rights of passage mentorship journeys. 

When the Covid pandemic forced a temporary closure of the school, Nathaniel began working with Lost Valley Education Center to craft residential course offerings for adults, with a focus on Permaculture, Eco-village design, community living skills, and deep nature connection. 

In 2024, Nathaniel re-incorporated Nature’s Mystery Awareness School as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2024 and began developing teacher training courses, such as the Eco-Resilience Leadership Training.

The unfolding vision of Nature’s Mystery Awareness School, guided by deep listening to the land, includes the development of a multi-year residential teacher training for aspiring teachers and mentors. Here we study and practice the essential skills with which our Indigenous ancestors and relatives were able maintain dynamic balance with the rest of the more-than-human world, maintaining resilient communities and thriving ecosystems for countless generations, prior to the relatively recent industrial and agricultural revolutions.

Through somatic attunement, bushcraft and deep nature awareness practices, we cultivate a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human, creative and inspired beings, able to respond intelligently to the most essential needs of modern of our modern world, in service to generations past, present and future.