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Current show status: PBS premiered the second season of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston in September. The official release date was Wednesday, September 6, 2023.
Baratunde Thurston takes viewers on an exciting journey across America’s varied landscapes in a TV series that explores how these environments influence our daily activities and interactions. It’s adventurous. He dives into unique stories from coast to coast, revealing how nature impacts our lives, from coal miners who become beekeepers to Black surfers in L.A.
This show is eye-opening. You’ll see places and meet people who have amazing stories to tell about their connection with the great outdoors. The series features performances by Baratunde Thurston, Christopher Lowe, and Hunter Noack.
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Plot → Baratunde Thurston explores the country’s diverse landscapes to see how they shape the way we work, play and interact with the outdoors. – via IMDB.
America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston is an unrated TV show, which is often informally denoted by "NR".
Series Info
America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston
2022 • 12 Episodes
Production: Part2 Pictures
Network: PBS
Rating: NR
Genres: Adventure
Region: United States
Check out America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston’s official website, IMDb page, and watch the trailer and videos on YouTube.
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I so hope that WITF will again air the America Outdoors series with Baratunde Thurston. (This would be season 3.) I work at Wellspan Philhaven Behavioral Health, leading groups in an Extended Acute Unit. Our patients struggle with chronic mental health issues. I am committed to bringing into my patients lives things that connect them to something bigger than themselves. I use every chance I get to excite them about, and expose them to the natural world. (I believe that we cannot simply talk people out of wanting to end their lives. We must give them reasons to want to live!) We have a diverse group of patients, from many backgrounds, nationalities, and skin color. I have noticed that people of color seem to often be less exposed to and connected with the outdoor world. I take them on mindfulness walks in our woods on the hospital grounds; teach them birding skills; and raise monarch butterflies by planting milkweed in the courtyard with them. Together we find the caterpillar eggs on the leaves. I am so excited that there is a show on WITF that exactly addresses the need for people of color to open themselves to the natural world; and that teaches them that any risks they may experience are well worth the gifts received in the process. Some of the later episodes of season 2 directly addressed mental health struggles of people whose stories Baratunde has shared with his viewers! Please, please show America Outdoors, Season 3! We are looking forward to more stories of people of color thriving with the natural world as a healing resource in their lives!