Welcome Everyone . I’ve been busy having a hard time keeping up with all the posts.
say puuku ? do you happen to be finnish ? if so Hauska tutustua! and otherwise nice to meet you to ofcourse…just wondering … because of yer name!
hey everyone,
my name is patrick - i’m 25 and live in central Mass, although i’m from toronto (canada). i’ve been really inspired by this forum and the people on here. i like the atmosphere (if i can use that word for the web) and what people are up to. i’ve only gotten into primitive skills/living in the last year or so, so my knowledge is pretty basic, but what fascinates me most is how these skills/tools help us shift our way of relating to the world to one that is more inherently human. it’s a rollercoaster of a ride to be on this journey, with lots of ups and downs, but i can’t imagine being on any other path.
currently, i find myself thinking a lot about my livelihood and how to create the lifestyle setup that i want. i’ve been working on a program i’m creating with my partner, called the ecological living project (www.universityofthewild.org). it’s my first foray into creating an ‘educational’ program so there are still a lot of questions and contradictions that needs to be faced, but i need to start somewhere!
i’d love to connect with people in the area.
yo!
Oh very good to see everyone,
I’m a Jason too, can do Jay, Jase–I tell people to say what’s comfortable because it has a better chance of sounding comfortable when it comes out. Archazi is an old music handle, something to present experimental songs under. (safety net)
Saw the forum on the Trackers NW site where the neighbor of a friend has a son who participates. Love how that works.
Transplant from Western NY to Portland, Oregon. Oregon back-country and I have a healthy long-distance relationship, but I do pilfer many a beautiful rock from its rivers and highlands to tuck away in my flat–like a lock of hair you get from your lover when you know you’ll be apart for a spell.
36, underachiever, motivation hasn’t come easy, mired in education loans for ventures in music/psychology/non-clinical advising, was excelling in building/carpentry when I succombed to a classic Portland bicycle vs. truck collision and found myself in this and that surgery–but you should see the truck!
This has led to good things, I find great relief in just having a moment in time to see my own shadow again, getting rid of the useless crap in the flat here, trimming, trimming, getting further away from the soul-dampening 9 to 5 coffin, been so enlivened to take a few steps away from the numbing routine. I know you know already, I’m just presenting my membership card at the door here.
Still, don’t have work lined up, things have unfolded undeniably uncannily finacially–nice adverb run, so I am thankful, but cloudy still. And of course the creditor vultures are nearly in sight again. I am riding a wave here–hesitating to manage myself into a regular job, while only slowly, and somewhat uncharacteristically for me, broadening the mentality I have for what is possible. But it’s beautiful.
A few days of looking this forum over, I am esthatic, estatic, eshthatickal, how the flippang do you spell it, but: intelligent, diverse people talking about now and tomorrow with such personal and communal pertinence. I share the enthusiasm so many have already expressed in finding the forum. Words words words. A blessing and a curse to know words.
Not up on many practical skills, [including social (recovering recluse)] but did have a fine stint as a wilderness therapy instructor…the combination of living with nature and keeping a marked focus on collective and individual social well being is enormously grounding.
And I know so many here have been thinking and living rewild and it’s cousin manifestations for quite some time–I don’t mean to interupt as a stranger and a dabbler. It is a sobering reality, this state of affairs, but I value it immensely, like something is finally making sense on the gutteral level as a result of it.
That’s plenty, see you in the halls. Glad not to need a hall pass.
Hi Patrick and Archazi ! Hope you’ll get as much out of the forum as i do, and im sure you will!
Welcome Patrick and Jay!
Patrick and Jay, thanks for bringing your enthusiasm to this forum. I can’t wait to hear your stories as they unfold.
Not to water down the introduction page, but Patrick, I looked over the university link and it was very interesting. I liked the social issues in the workshops tied to the practical issues–they seem to go really well with one another. Nice work over there. Best of luck.
And thanks a plenty for the welcomes.
Welcom n thx fo th new ntroductions! 
ours,
Eric
hello feral friends, my name is mike and i live in the hudson river valley(north of nyc). i’ve been rewilding for a couple of years, here and other places, i’ve spent a good deal of time in southern appalachia and farther northeast in vermont and the maine coast. i love the hudson valley, its quite beautiful and i plan to spend a lot more time here. i’m excited to network with other people in this region and would be delighted to get together with anyone to share skills or just go for a walk in the woods. looking farther ahead, if theres a strong enough community to support it, maybe we could have some sort of convergenge in this area, or a rewild camp as you all call it. my main focus over the past couple years has been leanring plants, so i guess thats the area i have the most knowledge in but i’m far from an expert by any means. i’m currently studying massage and am interested in learning as much about healing as i can. especially how different forms of healing can work together, specificaly herbalism and bodywork. other things i am interested in but have limited experience with are tracking and woodworking. i think thats enough for now, i’m looking foward to meeting you all.
Hey, Mike! I grew up in the Hudson River Valley - Poughkeepsie, to be exact - though I’m now living in Pittsburgh. What town do you live in? And are you at all involved with Clearwater? (If not, I highly suggest you get involved with them - they’re really cool people who can teach you a lot about the ecology of the Hudson, and you can live on their ship for a summer as a volunteer!)
i live in brewster, over by the ct border, like 45 minutes from poughkeepsie. i havent done any work with clearwater but know of some people who have and it sounds awsome. i wouldnt be able to do that summer program but i will still look into them. do they put on that event at croton point park? they must, becasue its called the clearwater festival or something like that, never been but sounds fun.
Hello, I’m BlueHeron … most folks 'round these parts know me as SilverArrow. 
Rix explained in another thread that I was having troubles with my SilverArrow account. I took the opportunity to make a new one - I wasn’t ecstatic with the name SilverArrow anyway. It came from a poem I once wrote, performed on stage, and committed to memory… I love that poem.
The stanza goes:
We’re all silver arrows
drifting out to Deeps
spinning with the eddies wrought
of logical proportion
tugged taught by boundless chaos;
we’re the weathervanes of self-propelling theories.
We talk about the weather
when there’s nothing else to say,
and we talk about beauty
when we’re tired with the weather.
ANYWAY. BlueHeron now, because I want to swallow my nourishment whole, alive and kicking, like a heron does. No more dissecting hearts with steely precision. It’s a bad habit.
Hello.
They call me Anders. I hail from Scandinavia. I will do my best to make this introduction succinct, because after all, nobody likes the new guy.
My dad is the reason I’m here. He gave me a shallow, romantic apreciation of nature (nature as some kind of external backdrop; a wallpaper of sort) which persisted through my childhood. As I grew older I wanted to get closer to the world…not merely watch it from afar. (literally!!) And so one thing led to another andd… suddenly I find myself here, wanting to become totally self suficcient and independent of civilization and hold conversations with wolves and… so on. ;D
PS: Hello.
Hello. I prefer to give my real last name on the interweb over my first name because it’s simply how I roll. So you can call me Youngblood I currently live in my hometown of Omaha, NE and am moving back to my adopted home, Lawrence, KS in May, where I can bike or bus to nature instead of have to rely on someone’s car to get there.
I spent 20 years in NE and only 4 in KS, but due to the fact that my dad has bad memories of the 'Nam and my friends in KS adore camping, I’m far more familiar with KS. Despite my dad’s aversion to these memories he has agreed to teach me some useful skills, such as trapping, skinning and cooking snake and making bows and arrows from the materials nature provides.
I’ve decided it’s time to get to know the land. I’ve been interested and studied herbal medicine for years now, but I’ve never actually gotten out and collected, though I’ve been wanting to for ages.
While I may have had some disconnect with land-nature (I lived urban and then in a suburb for a spell my whole life), I’ve always revered and immersed myself in the atmosphere, sky, and weather. I can often tell a storm coming even if I’ve been away from windows and inside all day and away from any weather reports. It has a unique charge. The energy isn’t anything I can articulate. I’ve seen a room full of relaxed people get exciteable all at the same time, only for a window-shaking boom of thunder to follow–the first signal of storm. I’ve also found it absolutely impossible to be depressed during that sort of weather, even in my darkest moments. I told my mother I wanted to be a gypsy when I grew up when I was 8 or 9 but that was only because it’s physically impossible to become a cloud…
The first time I felt totally bewitched by a plant was when I looked up and realized a flower was looking down at me once while taking a walk in Lawrence. I saw its shadow on the ground from the streetlight above first. In Omaha you can’t grow wildflowers (not even native ones!) so it was a force to be reckoned with. Never before had I seen in person a flower taller than me! It was nearing the end of summer, and the flower was weathered and aged like an old wise woman, I liken it to the mythic Baba Yaga of slavic folklore. Nothing like the picturesque sunflowers that I’d seen in pictures or off the side of the road during a roadtrip. Ever since I’ve had a deep respect for sunflowers. Hence my chosen alias. To this day, I’ve wanted to know more and more about all flora and fauna.
yep, that’s my story.
Hey Kids!
Been hearing about this forum forever, but the last year has kept me busy… finally got around to checking it out and I have to say I’m impressed! Good Show Scout
Don’t know how often I’ll make it back, but I will be keeping an eye out…
Cheers!
Janene
Welcome Janene, Youngblood, and Anders! Hope to see you posting some more stories soon.
Hey folks I am Brandon.I live on Mount Tabor in Portland Oregon with my son and partner.I have been around here on the rewild board for a few months now.I figured it was about time for an intro.
yes, welcome everyone!
Hi Y’all:
I’ve found out about this site during my learning process about collapse and what we can look forward to on the other side…
I live in central Texas and am in the process of creating an intentional community here with the intent of riding out the collapse and transitioning over to being foragers as the opportunity presents itself.
I have SO MUCH to learn (and UN-learn) about rewilding, but I suppose most of us do. I look forward to learning more via this site and connecting with others of like mind.
-Hermes