Tag: nature

  • Consistent Walks in Local Ecosystems

    Consistent Walks in Local Ecosystems

    By: Amanda Tarrach, Outreach & Engagement Intern I find that reconnecting with nature through simple actions in local environments is one of the best ways to understand rewilding. When I slow down and take a walk through the woods, I am able to recognize the plants, animals, and ecosystem that exists around me, and further…

  • Episode 3: Empowerment, Justice, & Sovereignty in the Urban Space

    Episode 3: Empowerment, Justice, & Sovereignty in the Urban Space

    Shaneka Boucher President & Founder, Social Responsibility Through Me (SRTM) Check out this story & more on the Rewild NJ Podcast! Get notified for every new post. Subscribe Today! We are Bringing Rewilding to New Jersey. Get notified of every new post. Subscribe Today! Help to Rewild NJ. Join the Rewild NJ Movement today. Learn More…

  • How Immersing with Nature Helped Me Understand Rewilding

    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…

  • Reconnecting With Nature: The Nature Portrait

    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…

  • Stewarding Eden to Me

    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…

  • Watermelon in Spring

    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…

  • The Wild Within!

    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…

  • An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

    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…

  • Finding Home in Saddler’s Woods

    Finding Home in Saddler’s Woods

    By: Acer Paiste, Saddler’s Woods Conservation Association, 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…

  • Rewilding the People: Honoring the Original Peoples of Turtle Island: Upcoming Indigenous People’s Day

    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…