Category: Personal Journey

  • The Voice of the Woods

    The Voice of the Woods

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director In January 2020, I was feeling very hopeful. I had just graduated with my Master’s Degree and I was starting my first teaching position at a four-year University. I have always been bright and happy- blessed with good spirits and positive energy. Confident, ambitious, and motivated, I moved…

  • Advice of Adelaide

    Advice of Adelaide

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director My grandmother’s name was Adelaide Beatrice. From Italy, she emigrated to the United States in the 1940s at the age of 20 on one of the last Trans-Atlantic voyages to Ellis Island. My grandmother knew how to do everything. She knew how to garden, how to forge life,…

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

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

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director 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…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part III

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director 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…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part II

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director 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…

  • Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    Adventures from the Knepp Estate England Part I

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director 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…