miss you too, timeLESS! hope to hear more from you.
Hi,
Iām Loess from Omaha, NE, near the banks of the Missouri River. My birth name is Adam but I chose this one because I feel a kinship with the soil & the ecosystem in the Loess Hills. Iāve been into nature my whole life, and have been into rewilding, permaculture, greenanarchy, and hopeful for civilizationās collapse for about three years now, and I feel way more like a spectator than a participant in all of that. I mean, Iāve spent a lot of time alone in the forest and prairie, gathered some wild foods here and there, tried to make a few tools, read a lot of stuff in books and online. But I often find myself thinking too much, and acting too little. Thereās only so much rewilding you can do on your own, and Iām really sick of feeling so isolated in my interests, sick of hating the destructive forces of civ, sick of destructive and self-loathing thought patterns. I want to direct more of my energy toward sharing and building a collaborative and cooperative culture. Itās hard to know how to start doing that after spending a little over half of my 20s trapped in cycles of fear, guilt, anger, hope and despair, mountains and valleys. My life feels like a paradox right now, because I feel that there is nothing left for me here in Omaha, but right now I feel too paralyzed by psychological pathologies to do anything about it.
I play various instruments that I can pluck, pick, or bang on, and really do adore music. I love playing with children, riding my bicycle, listening to the leaves of river trees blowing. I also fancy ripe tropical fruit way too much ā thanks to several years of interest in the world of raw foods/natural hygiene/fruitarianism, an interest that sometimes feels like an addiction, and that I sometimes wish I never developed.
Anyhoo, I have lurked far too long here and am grateful to have found this community. I look forward to exploring the many beautiful questions that are posed here!
Welcome loess - glad you finally chimed in! I myself dabbled in instinctive eating for a while. I had a freezer full of cassia pods for months. 
Hi Alwyn!
Iām so happy to see thereās another rewilder in SF!
Message me if you ever want to get in touch.
My name is Jaime. I live in Los Angeles.
hello all from ne washington near spokane.
although i am getting a bit long in the tooth at 48, i still try to teach anyone that is willing to stand still long enough the basics of living with the land not against it.
although i am only 1/8 white mountain apache i still follow many of the old! ways that my grandfather taught me. taking scalps sometimes seems to be the only way to get the message acrossā¦but then again i did enough of that in the military till i got wiser and left.
brought up all over the world i learned a multitude of ways to live with the land and can still fend for extended periods without technologyā¦still the creature comforts have there time and place.
ps. my masters is in computer science with 4 bachelors in history, language arts, aviation administration, and business administration and my favorite is still the school of life.
hello everyone,
iām paul. i live in Ke-moke-mon-am (southern michigan). i was a lurker on this site alot awhile ago i enjoied all the information but at the time did not feel that i had much to contribute. since then i have moved away from the city and began living much closer to the land. i have been working my primitive skills and hoping to get a gathering together in early fall. i play in a band with alot anarch-o- primitivist themes called theillalogical spoon, i am not sure how to describe our sound but we have a myspace. if you want to check us out. i hope this mesage finds you all in good spirits.
with love and rage
pauL
Afternoon, Evelina!
Greetings Jaime, Pagan48, Paul, and Evelina! Great to read your stories and hope to read more from yāall.
Welcome
Hello,
Iāve posted a few times already but I hope to become more active here soon. Iām officially going to be living in Portland, OR as of august 16th, going to art college, ending my 6 month nomadic spree that made me loathe airplanes
I dropped out of my first semester of art school in Chicago because I hated the city, and the school, although highly respected, was mostly about silly artsy fartsy conversations that didnāt really go anywhere and I was probably the least happy Iāve ever been. A lot of art students try to be āartistsā before they try to be genuine people, and by god it made me want to never draw again, instead of realizing I just needed to find ways to use my skills that wasnāt quite so arrogant or blatantly in opposition to my heart. The whole degree thing is still kind of wishywashy to me, I donāt know if Iām going to finish or not, Iām very conflicted about it at the moment.
Iām very much looking forward to Portland - I love how easy it is to get to Forest Park and I love that thereās a lot of interest in rewilding. Iāve only ever taken one wild edible/medicinal plant class in my life, with trackers nw ;D, but by god it was the most exciting and honest thing Iāve done sinceā¦ ermā¦ pre-puberty. People stare at me funny when I say Iām in art school but Iām more interested in learning about primitive cultures and skills than art, but you canāt express beauty in ANY context if you cannot first interact with and really see it.
Iām hoping that the environment of Portland will give me the boost I need to start really acting on my love of nature - most of my life Iāve felt suffocated in the cities but not really done anything about it, and not really learned to commune with anything but the cityās demons, physically or spiritually.
So, here I am. Hii.
Evening, Mar!!
And, welcome to you too new folk!!
:-*
Hi everyone!
I donāt normally get in on the greetings, but Iām feeling friendly.
Hello, all you new people!
Hello,
I was just at the free activist witchcamp in oregon and I met a number of rewilding/root camp people. I definately am super inspired by their stories and have felt a strong connection to this type of life. I have been bond to living in cities, specifically the bay area for the last 20 years or so. During that time I have worked on many projects and in many collectives, but unless you get your hands dirty working the land or building together, there is just a limit to how much solidarity you can build with people. It is sad how much activism is just reactivism.
I am looking forward to reading this site and learning how to feed myself and community and actually making some sort of real difference for the earth.
If there are any other bay area people on this forum, hit me up I would love to start doing some monthly skill shares and community building type things.
I am dreaming of moving to cascadia someday in the future, and I want to go there with more skills to share.
tomkat
Mar, your story is so much like my own, save I dropped out of college just because I was there to kill time until I found out what I really wanted to do: Rewild. 
I donāt remember if I ever introduced myself, properly. I mostly just lurk around here because Iām shy.
Iām Piper. I live in the Pacific Northwest.
Hiya!
Iām Aleister, if you want to know my real name. 17, and going to college soon. What Iām really interested in doing, is finding some way to take down the death system of civilization. And with the coming of the internet, the going out of gasoline (5-20 years maybe?), I believe some crazy stuff is gonna go down soon.
Of course, Iāve been born and raised a slave to civilization, and have forgotten nearly all the skills a human needs to survive, and Iām looking for some help.
Welcome Tomkat, Piper, and Aleister!
Hello!
My name is Nathanael. Iām 19, and I go to college in Iowa. After always loving the outdoors but not knowing just what to do once I got out there, it finally hit me recently that living off the land is the culmination of enjoying the world (and life). I donāt have much experience with it yet, but I wonāt let it stay that way for long; Iāve already ordered a primitive skills book (youāre probably all familiar with the Naked into the Woods one), and I intend to practice as much as I can. Iāve started setting goals. First off, I want to catch and eat my own small game by this time next year (but Iām thinking Iāll do it a lot sooner). The others havenāt become very concrete yet, but as I learn by reading and practicing, they should come into focus better. If itās possible, I intend to live my junior and senior years of college outside instead of in a dorm, though I still need to come up with a suitable place to do it, and there arenāt many in the ravaged Iowa ecosystem. The future will come, and I intend to make it my own.
Hiya! Cool to have someone from iowa here!
And whats this book you speak of? It sounds interesting.
Greetings, all! My name is Jim, Iām 53, and I live in Terre Haute, IN. I joined up some time ago, but due to circumstances have been unable to introduce myself until now. I am a student of Druidry (a member of ADF and AODA) and have always believed that most of our ills come from our estrangement from nature. Looking for a way to remedy this in my own life, I found the writings of John Zerzan, Daniel Quinn, and others. I have also been doing a lot of reading on the web, such as the Anthropik Network. I am very interested in the concept of rewilding and am eager to apply what I am learning in my own life. I have enjoyed the fascinating discussions I have found here, and hope to join in, although I am relatively new to all this (I am only an egg!).