Nature

Discover a community of friendly and fun-loving women of all ages, backgrounds and fitness levels based in the UK. With Women Outdoors, founder Emma Winters has created an environment where you can be your authentic self, develop outdoor skills, connect with like-minded women and go home with a big smile on your face.

We talk to Rachel Ashe about the social enterprise she founded that offers mental health peer support through cold water dips.

The sea contains multitudes and it is exactly this complexity that keeps calling designer Sarah Robertson to it in moments of loss and need.

How a suburban farm in Bath is raising our spirits along with the animals.

We speak to Amber Rich, founder of The Little Retreat and The Big Retreat Festival about how she arrived at these projects, how wellness is now something that we all reach for, and her role as a curator of discovery and awe.

A garden and studio in Hackney promoting the well-being benefits of herbs and our connection with nature.

When you can’t leave the house, bring tiny worlds indoors with London Terrariums.

A London based not-for-profit bringing the therapeutic benefits of gardening to young people and changing who gets to garden one project at a time.

In a moment when time is stretching out, Anthony Gormley’s “Iron Men” captures the wonder of shifting lives.

Simon Hodgson writes about what wild swimming, pebbly stones notwithstanding, does for his sense of wellbeing.

Illustrator Michaela Hobson revisits an old favorite, London’s Natural History Museum, and finds a place for inspiration, knowledge and respite.

Zabby Allen, and her dog, find a world away from London as we know it, and a place to make her world just a little less isolated.

The Newt is a chic kind of Arcadia. A 300-acre Somerset estate transformed into nature pristine, the English landscape given a contemporary makeover.

The Sheppey rewards those who seek it out with character in abundance, and music to pay attention to, thoughtful rooms to suit your different moods and barrels of cider on the bar to blurry away your day.

The Bear Trail gives you full nature immersion in the up-to-your-knees/waist/neck mud version. This is an outdoor adventure assault course for adults and kids that starts with things to scramble over and ends in the showers!

As MindFood’s motto goes, “Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.” The Ealing-based social enterprise has this idea at its core: it’s founded on nature and uses food as the framework for figuring out our mental health concerns.

Bryony Gordon launched Mental Health Mates as “a sort of walking/running group for the people for whom it is perfectly normal to feel weird”. Right from its start in London a few years ago people have consistently shown up, with outings now throughout the UK and abroad.

Maybe the problem is less about who we are and how we escape and more about the walls we try to contain ourselves within.

Neuroscientist Dr. Daya Grant discovers a sanctuary in Los Angeles for reflection and a moment of respite from it all.

A plant shop in Portland that does it all just that little bit differently, from the plants they stock to how they think about the environment.

How two friends in Los Angeles are working to make the outdoors more diverse.

Rawly Bold Founder Pamela Delgado on why New York’s Governors Island is the place she turns to when she needs some balance in her life.

Moab is a place to discover yourself in the present, but with a deep sense of being cradled by the past. A place to feel beloved on the earth.

The great irony of Marfa is that it isn’t really trying to be anything other than what it is: a tiny, dusty Texas town. The city of Marfa website pitches it as “more than just a place. . . . It’s a state of mind,” but my mom and I agreed that that gives the wrong idea.

Most city gardens are well manicured and pretty to visit, but Descanso maintains a unique kind of messiness that instantly transports you into a magical world of plants, trees, and flowers.

Waking up in Joshua Tree was waking up in another world. Had I even seen the sun rise before? Had the light ever touched anything with such intention?? It hit me fairly quickly what people find appealing about this place. In the light of day, the landscape feels less like a barren wasteland and more like a waiting canvas, a palpable feeling of possibility filling the limitless space.

A birdwatching collective founded by and for people of colour that’s as much about mental health, creativity, ecology and community as ornithology.