By Samantha Yanks

Connecting to nature has a certain mythical component to it.  Set 30 minutes outside of Atlanta in the rolling countryside is a community called Serenbe, which sets out to do just that: connect to nature.  Its pure focus is on quality of life.  What started as one family’s urban experiment has turned into a way of life for hundreds—from staying at the property’s 27-room inn to living in one of the community’s 300 eco-friendly master-planned homes.