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Are you a regular hiker who's been looking to increase stamina to take on longer hikes or backpacking trips? Have you gone on a trip with us and want to level up your strength and endurance to tackle hard hikes and trips on your own? Strength training is an amazing way to increase confidence as a hiker and backpacker, prevent injuries while out on the trail, and help you achieve harder adventures!
Join us for a wildcrafted harvest dinner with the incredible and knowledgeable Iowa DNR naturalist, Ann Riordan! To start the evening, we will embark on a foraging hike through Springbrook State Park, foraging for some of the ingredients for our meal as a group. Then we’ll make a delicious wildcrafted meal with our found goodies. We’ll share tips and tricks about cooking with forageables, like garlic mustard, nettles, lambs quarter, chickweed, mushrooms, edible flowers, and so much more.
Hey Nebraska — we’re back! Join us for our first hike of the season to stretch your legs, get outside and meet an awesome community of other nature-loving folks! We’ll hike the beautiful loop of Schramm Park alongside the bluffs of the Platte River. Then after, hang out with us to feast on some delicious Carter and Rye hand pies for breakfast!
Are you a regular hiker who's been looking to increase stamina to take on longer hikes or backpacking trips? Have you gone on a trip with us and want to level up your strength and endurance to tackle hard hikes and trips on your own? Strength training is an amazing way to increase confidence as a hiker and backpacker, prevent injuries while out on the trail, and help you achieve harder adventures!
Learn basic bike mechanics with other women at the coolest new local coffee/bike shop in town! We’ll meet for 3 sessions to get us feeling prepared and confident on our bikes before summer and RAGBRAI. Sign up for one, two or all three sessions!
What do you get when you combine the two best things in the world, pies and hikes? Pikes! Join Wander Women and Pie Bird Pies on the tastiest collaboration nature’s ever seen as we wander through our favorite parks in Central Iowa and enjoy Des Moines’ best pies!
By now, the spring ephemeral flower season is in full bloom, but we’ve still got plenty of blooms to come — join us for a hike to learn how to spot and identify late spring wildflowers native to Iowa!
Join WW and the Iowa DNR for a beginner-friendly archery introduction class! Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow, and embrace your inner Artemis.
Join Wander Women, Red Dragon Herbs and Tea, and Pocket Prairies of Des Moines for an unforgettable evening immersed in the prairie! We’ll hike, identify prairie plants and their uses, and make our own prairie-inspired tea blends!
Hike and hang for the full moon! Join us for our monthly full moon hike — this month at lovely Easter Lake Park on the south side of Des Moines. Watch the sun set and the moon rise as we hike around the lake.
Grab your hiking shoes and your yoga mat! Join us for a monthly partnered hike and yoga flow from Wander Women and our pals, Rooted Yoga and Fitness! Come soak in the early summer season with an evening hike at beautiful Water Works Park, and then a restorative yoga flow under the setting sun.
Spend a day paddling at the beautiful Big Creek Lake, and then make fresh pizza on a camp pizza stove! We will kayak around the lake, learn about the waterfowl, fish and plant life around Big Creek, and enjoy the late spring sun!
Come see the orchards in bloom and learn about the importance of pollinators during this special springtime tour in Nebraska City at Nebraska's favorite tree destination, Arbor Day Farm! We'll enjoy a guided tour from a resident Arbor Day Farm Nature Interpreter through the orchard and apple development process — and we’ll get a hands-on look at the farm's bee-keeping operation!
Spend spring among the flowers with us! Nestled between Omaha and Lincoln is a cut-flower farm called Harvest Home. Join us for a casual hike around the flower farm, where Harvest Home will show all the beautiful spring blooms, their production methods, and share gardening tips and tricks from their owner, Jamie.
What do you get when you combine the two best things in the world, pies and hikes? Pikes! Join Wander Women and Pie Bird Pies on the tastiest collaboration nature’s ever seen as we wander through our favorite parks in Central Iowa and enjoy Des Moines’ best pies!
Do you know about urban wetland tucked behind 120th and Maple in the heart of Omaha? With dozens of species of birds, mammals, and plants, Heron Haven features one of the last oxbow wetlands of Big Papio Creek. We’ll take a guided tour through the sanctuary, about a 1-mile, mostly flat route on boardwalk and dirt trail.
Come celebrate the summer solstice with us, Nebraska! A time to be joyful of the changing of season and light, Melissa Breazile (Naturalist and Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide) with Wild Tree will guide us through a series of invitations intended to connect ourselves back to the wild of nature.
