Michelle's Rewilding

Rewilding, wild gardening, why am I rewilding instead of just homesteading?  Well, homesteading can be part of the same industrial industry that causes so many issues today. Good organic/all natural homesteading can be a form of rewilding, think permaculture and the likes, but for me it will be more a mix of wild gardening and permaculture. Homesteading while a good step back, just was not far enough back for me.  My husband, who is a hiker, does like a wee bit for corn and a few items that he requires. I am trying an indoor kitchen herb garden for ease of cooking. Wild gardening?  What in the world is that I thought, when I heard it.  I grew up with a master gardener of a mother, but wild gardening was a new term to me.  Then I began to look into it.  In simple terms it is planting food, mostly local, or known to grow well locally, without tilling the land, just dig a small hole, plant the plant, and make sure it gets enough water.  It is ...

Navajo Tea  So I was reading, " Rewilding the Way " by Todd Wynward over these past few weeks, and something that really has hit deep with me is the whole 80% local food by 2025 challenge he puts forward.  Now I might not have taken much thought to it, but he lives in Northern New Mexico near Taos, in an area not much different from us.  If he can make this challenge, why cant I too? 1800s Food Delivery Now, I know not everyone can get up to 80%, but if not food, could not we try other items, what ever doable? Would not our world be better supporting our local businesses, farmers, craftsmen/women, artists, and such?  There are always items we cant get locally, and special treat foods for special days to support our truckers... and cannot we come up with other ways to help create jobs, like maybe local delivery to families who cant go to local markets because of locations? After all, it's been done before... Think Local - #80localby2025  Garde...

The Path to The Wash Rewild - v .   1) to return to ones natural habitat  2) to intentional become feral  3) to return to creation and the wildlands For many years, I have struggled with what to call my minimalist, back to nature self.  You see, I am most at home running or often limping through the forests and deserts near our tiny home: just me, my walking staff (for my bad leg), and more often than not our dog, Shaggy.  Then, a few months ago I discovered, or more picked up on, the term "rewilding".  I had heard it before on some shows my husband and I watch, but it never really hit me... wait, that is what I am... a "rewilder",  a desert minimalist, a rewilder.  How does this fit in to my faith and my calling, that will be a journey to explain, but I will do my best in the days, months, and years to come. Michelle in her "Tree House" But why?  For along time I have felt out of place, with a lot of aspects of th...