Tag: writing

  • View from 3rd Mountain: Folk & the Old Ways

    View from 3rd Mountain: Folk & the Old Ways

    By: Derek Polzer, Advisory Board Member I build “Folk” instruments, 5-string banjos & variations on the dulcimer.  There are times when I’m building these instruments it feels sacramental probably due to their cultural origins. These instruments are what I call “earth informed”, because the materials used are wood, gourds, metal, & animal hide, & that…

  • 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 View from 3rd Mountain: Self-Sufficiency & The Old Ways

    The View from 3rd Mountain: Self-Sufficiency & The Old Ways

    By: Derek Polzer, Rewild NJ Movement Member One of the great joys of living during the counterculture days of the 60’ & 70’ was the spirit of self-sufficiency, a “do-it-yourself” ethos! It showed up in our young lives in many ways. Our vehicles of choice were often Volkswagens; VW beetles, buses, square-backs, transports, even a…

  • 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…

  • Finding Home in Saddler’s Woods

    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…

  • Three Weeks in Chile: From Anthropological Insight to Personal Journey

    Three Weeks in Chile: From Anthropological Insight to Personal Journey

    By: Sam Scalio, Outreach & Engagement Intern I recently had the opportunity to visit Chile to conduct anthropological work with a team of students under the purview of Dr. Maria Rosado of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Rowan University. As a Rewild NJ Intern, many connections and ideas came to mind over…

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    Thou Shalt Not Kill a Living Thing

    By: Dare Euler, Rewild NJ Movement Member 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.…