Category: Personal Journey

  • The Women & Their Woods: A Retreat by Ridge & Valley Conservancy

    The Women & Their Woods: A Retreat by Ridge & Valley Conservancy

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO After a long journey from South Jersey, I finally made it to the Princeton-Blairstown Center for the Women & Their Woods Retreat. The Princeton-Blairstown Center is nestled at the heart of the Ridge & Valley Physiographic Province of New Jersey. This region is lesser known to most, characterized by…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO The Knepp Estate is a 3,500-acre rewilding project in West Sussex, England. Over the past few decades, Knepp has become an internationally recognized example of success for rewilding in practice. Over thirty years, the rewilding practices at Knepp took hold and with that, sustainable business followed. Knepp offers the public…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO The Knepp Estate is a 3,500-acre rewilding project in West Sussex, England. Over the past few decades, Knepp has become an internationally recognized example of success for rewilding in practice. Knepp was a clear choice for my first ever rewilding vacation. My fiancé dropped me off at Newark Airport on…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO In my early search for rewilding knowledge and community, I found a book called Wilding by Isabella Tree. Wilding tells the story of the Knepp Estate, a famed, internationally recognized rewilding project. The Knepp Estate sits on a 3,500-acre area near Horsham in West Sussex, England. After inheriting the estate…

  • The Road to Rewilding

    The Road to Rewilding

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO I have always had an interdisciplinary, systematic mind suited for the social sciences. Navigating the early days in my undergraduate career, I eventually found Geography, a discipline of physical, human, spatial, and environmental study points- as interdisciplinary and systematic as it gets. A life spent studying Geography has led…

  • The Why: Founding Rewild NJ

    The Why: Founding Rewild NJ

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO In our modern world we experience unrelenting influence from change, globalization, and technology. It sometimes feels like we have no control at all. We have built a comfortable, convenient, safe world over time- but what have we lost in the process? We are being robbed of our sovereignty, and…

  • Meet the Founder

    Meet the Founder

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & CEO Hello! My name is Fran and I am the Founder of Rewild New Jersey Community Cooperative. Welcome to Rewild New Jersey! I am so excited to finally be sharing the wonderful world of rewilding with all of the citizens of the Garden State. I consider myself to be a…