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On Symbols
By: Jaxon Shain, Rewild NJ Movement Member When the insight lacks in stillness, Harshness appears. Silent illumination, Hongzhi Zhengjue https://terebess.hu/zen/mozhao.html#m Before you study Zen, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers; while you are studying Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers; But once you have had enlightenment mountains are once again…
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How Immersing with Nature Helped Me Understand Rewilding
By: Amanda Tarrach, Outreach & Engagement Intern This past summer, I wanted to become more connected with nature and expand my personal experience of the healing it has to offer. I wasn’t sure where to start, I mean I’d go on walks in beautiful local parks, and it was very enjoyable. These parks offered not…
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Reconnecting With Nature: The Nature Portrait
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, Advisory Board Member As someone who is strongly passionate about advocating for Youth voices, I like to provide the Indigenous Youth of our communities the opportunity to be together. For generations, having the support of one another is that we had. Our families have stayed a tight knit community through…
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Stewarding Eden to Me
By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member Imagine being the first ecologist in a perfect environment. Everything created specifically for you. Placed right there with the directive to be the steward, the caretaker. There lived Adam in Eden-biologist, botanist, zoologist, arborist (that didn’t go as planned!), environmentalist. Creatures wandering before his observant, assessing eyes to…
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Watermelon in Spring
By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern It was early one morning with frost lining the ground and the air cold and nippy as I walked through the outdoor section at my local hardware store. Surrounded by plants in brackets hanging above my head, by the new trees ready to be planted, my 9-year-old self felt as…
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The Wild Within!
By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern I have recently found myself wondering what exactly community rewilding truly means to me. At its core, community rewilding could be defined as the act of reconnecting people with nature and their local environments to foster resilience, community empowerment, and sustainable self-sufficiency. Community Rewilding is a unique approach…
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An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail
By: Richard Federman, Rewild NJ Movement Member On the morning of April 18, 1921 a woman named Betty Hardy Stubbs, one of the nation’s leading women’s suffrage activists, ran from New York’s Grand Central Station to a bridge spanning the East River, and jumped. Her husband, a kindly and idealistic former Professor of Forestry named…
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Finding Home in Saddler’s Woods
By: Acer Paiste, Rewild NJ Network Member When I first moved from the sprawling forests of Medford to the Haddon Hills apartments on Pyle Avenue, I felt displaced. Medford’s dense woods had always felt like a second home to me. It was a stabilizing presence in my life, nurturing me into the nature-inspired person I…
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Rewilding the People: Honoring the Original Peoples of Turtle Island: Upcoming Indigenous People’s Day
By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, Advisory Board Member Soon, we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day (& the upcoming Native American Heritage Month), previously and adjacently known in parts of the country as “Columbus Day”. The origins of the previously observed holiday was in celebration of the day that Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the Americas in the year…
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How Rewilding Yourself Can Reduce Energy Costs
By: Isabel Molina, Rewild NJ Movement Member 2024 was the hottest year on record since 1880, breaking the previous top record-holding year, 2023. 2025 is on track to receive second place for hottest year recorded. With temperatures consistently climbing, it has never been more important for people to have access to a cool environment during…
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