Connecting Kids To Nature
Follow the Path of Wonder
Join me to explore Story Walking, an approach that engages children in outdoor stories, activities, and adventures that foster creativity, mindfulness, and a love for the natural world.
"Walk & Roll to School: Environmental & Health Impacts" is a new podcast episode that shows how walking to school gives kids an opportunity to learn about their local environment, plant and animal life. Additionally, walking is excellent exercise. Unfortunately, fewer children are walking to school now than ever before, and more parents are driving their kids to school. In this episode, two experts explain the WHY behind this trend. They also offer strategies, resources and community activities to help get children walking again.
Outdoor Teaching Survey
Calling All Teachers!
The Story Walking Radio Hour explores the many barriers that prevent children's access to outdoor learning. Over the next four months (October 2025 – January 2026) we are inviting classroom teachers to complete our Outdoor Teaching Survey. What are the barriers preventing the implementation of outdoor learning? Teacher input will help guide future podcast programming provided by the Story Walking Radio Hour. Fill out the survey and enter the drawing to win copies of Wendy's new storybook and lesson planning guide.
Tune into Nature's Loving Vibes
Nature is essential to healthy development - body, mind and spirit.
Children thrive with sunshine, fresh air and space to roam, because their bodies were made to move and explore. Outdoors is where they learn about circadian rhythm, seasonal changes and the life cycles of flowering plants, butterflies and frogs. Nature offers the best playground, and this is where children fall in love with Nature. It is a world full of miracles and wonder that sparks curiosity, imagination, inquiry and patient observation. Falling in love with Nature and with Earth changes everything, because we will protect what we love.
Story Walking Radio Hour is about our love for Nature.
Inspired by encounters with Nature, the Story Walking podcast series encourages listeners to get outside and engage with the natural world. It introduces teachers, parents, caregivers and students to outdoor educators, environmental scientists and other nature-loving people from all walks of life working to preserve our planet and conserve our natural resources. Each episode begins with storytelling to set the stage for the guests who share their stories about how they fell in love with Nature and how their experiences led them to their passionate interests, fun jobs and purposeful lives.
SWRH podcast archives offer a treasure trove of stories and ideas.
Choose from an archive of over 70 podcasts, download, and listen while walking or driving to your intended destination, be it a city park, forest, lake, river, beach, salt marsh, farm or botanical garden. Each podcast page shares a show description, guest bios, links to relevant educational resources and a one-hour audio file, comprised of three segments.
Food Forest Gardening
Podcast with Green Teacher
Wendy Nadherny Fachon speaks with Green Teacher podcast host, Ian Shanahan, about Food Forest Gardening. What is a food forest? How can teachers present an ecosystems approach to gardening for impactful learning? How might teachers integrate corporative learning opportunities enrich the process? Wendy has her own food forest garden, and she sees great potential for food forest gardening in environmental education. She also shares her insights about nature drawing as a powerful pedagogical tool and tells a story about a serendipitous discovery of Red Mulberry trees.
Story Walking
Podcast with Talaterra
Wendy Nadherny Fachon speaks with Talaterra host, Tanya Marien, about how she developed her afterschool and summer learning Story Walking programs and about her Story Walking Radio Hour. She talks about partnership building, which has been critical to her success. She also shares her visions for the future of Story Walking.
About the Internet Radio Platform
Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network
The Story Walking Radio Hour is an Environmental Education program airing on syndicated Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network (D7RN), every Monday at 9am and 9pm ET.
It is listed under the "Sustainable Living" tab of the network website. D7RN seeks more environmentally-focused hosts to help raise consciousness. Learn more at https://dreamvisions7radio.com/about-us/
If you would like to be a Guest or Sponsor with the Story Walking Radio Hour, call or text Wendy at 401 529-6830.
For a complete listing of over 70 Story Walking Radio Hour podcasts, click here.
More About Wendy
active nature and spiritual learning for kids of all ages
Collaborating with schools, teachers, environmental educators, and local businesses, Wendy has created and facilitated programs for urban, woodland and salt marsh ecological science. When the pandemic disrupted in-person learning, she led the development of the virtual Nature Drawing habitat learning series for The Empowerment Factory and helped facilitate the teacher training. Wendy writes articles about kids health, outdoor learning and sustainable living for Natural Awakenings magazine and the Dreamvisions7Radio Network's Sustainable Living News. She is also a permaculture gardener, a children's author and loves to read all kinds of books.