Why rewild instead of just homestead?

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 a type of permaculture that has been done generations ago, but has nearly been lost to time.  It is also a way to garden to in the wildlands, without drawing high attention to the fact there is a garden planted.  This especially works if you know where the water flows for natural assistance gardening.

A wild garden, a way to rewild the gardening, is the method I am looking into for our tiny house, on the mission site.  By planting wild  sagebrush, garlic, yucca, onions, chilies, parsley, sweet potatoes, severer berry bushes, and exploring the planting of beans, squash and corn among the wild plants as rewilding them into the landscape.  This is a way to not worry about weeds, create a living long term garden, and also make use of the natural resources.  The only big question is will this work in the high desert?  That will be the challenge as not only is this our first season gardening in this region, but total a new style of gardening! Not sure how it is going to work, but it is sure worth my hardest try...

~ Michelle