Laura Chávez Silverman

The Wilderness at Your Doorstep with Laura Chávez Silverman


Laura Chávez Silverman helps people access the wild within and around them. As the founding naturalist of The Outside Institute, she teaches slow, intentional, and embodied ways of seeing and being in relation to the land, including foraging for edible and medicinal plants. Becoming native to a place, regardless of where you live, helps nurture an understanding of your connection (and responsibility) to not just the abstract notion of wilderness, but to the place you call home. Discover what it means to really live where you live, in touch with your true nature. Join us on June 17th to learn about the healing and transformative powers of the wild.

About Laura Chávez Silverman


Laura Chávez Silverman, a writer and creative director, is the founding naturalist of The Outside Institute, which nurtures humanity's innate affinity for the wild through guided nature walks, foraging education, wildcrafting workshops and botanical mixology. The institute aims to inspire a joyful awareness and essential reciprocity between all beings. The Outside Institute's publications currently include three volumes of its Field Guide to the Hudson & Upper Delaware Valleys.