Tag: rewilding

  • “And The Corn Remembered The Land”: Utilizing Indigenous Ingredients

    “And The Corn Remembered The Land”: Utilizing Indigenous Ingredients

    By: Ty “Dancing Wolf” Ellis, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Food sovereignty is among one of the top priorities as far as Indigenous People are concerned. And in a time where the markets are continuously fluctuating, relearning and reconnecting to the ways of utilizing what the Earth provides becomes critical. Not onlydoes it bring us closer to…

  • 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…

  • The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    The Loop of Self-Sufficiency

    By: Anna Bergen, Outreach & Engagement Intern When transforming your backyard into a self-sustaining ecosystem, it’s best to start with simplicity. My family is trying to mimic natural cycles, within a contained space, that being my own backyard. At my house, we have a rainwater collector, which contains and stores water that can be used…

  • Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    Wilderness Life In The 21st Century?

    By: Jonathan Kocsis, Lead Intern When hearing the words wilderness survival, most think about being stranded on a deserted island and having to survive by any means necessary. What most people wouldn’t do is willingly sign up for the opportunity to do this at just 13; however, that is exactly what I did during my…

  • Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    Domain or Stewardship? Interpreting Our Relationship with Nature Through Genesis

    By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps…

  • Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Episode 1: Conservation, Knepp, & Rewilding England

    Tony Whitbread President, Sussex Wildlife Trust Get notified for every new post. Subscribe to our Media today! Join the Rewild NJ Movement. Joined the Rewild NJ Movement? Practicing Community Rewilding? Rewilding Your Land and Yourself? Using our Resources? We want to capture the action, stories, and successes of our Movement Members. Submit the form below…

  • 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 Language of Hope: Reframing Environmental Narratives

    The Language of Hope: Reframing Environmental Narratives

    By: Hana Katz, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Don’t tune out! In New Jersey, environmental challenges like flooding, habitat loss, and pollution are definitely daunting and cause countless individuals to tune out from the cause. But this gives us the unique chance to inspire new action and reframe narratives around environmental issues. I’m a strong believer in moving away…

  • Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    Memory in the Concrete: Rewilding Through Bioregionalism

    By: Sam Scalio, Outreach & Engagement Intern I grew up in South Philly, where green space can be hard to find, and having a tree on your block or two made it stand out amongst other streets. My neighborhood, as well as most of South Philly, consists of row homes, sometimes expansive, then narrow sidewalks,…

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    By: Dare Euler, RNJCC Strategic Advisor My journey into rewilding began as a child living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Always preferring the outdoors, this rural area of Interlaken had it all. Woods, fields, lake, beaver ponds, mountain. I was the nerdy kid who had collections of the natural world around me. Rocks identified and classified. Insects…