https://www.rewilding.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1698873152404-OMRISPUA6U4NIYI2T3TR/tina-xinia-2o8a64Gznlo-unsplash.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509643688878-VH9X02Q937NEZGH0G1V4/IMG_7238.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509643736599-O8ZU39B0ESNZO44NQ6XU/IMG_7253.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644487110-CBGQN43GKDY1VK1QMNHM/IMG_7296.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509643964375-FP9P1UYF2T8PEI3L77TV/IMG_7322.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644025984-6FJEFAAFMN7W0AYWZ4PN/IMG_7332.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644004180-LXDLA5BZSHSPMIAJQN8I/IMG_7315.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644214989-NERAR1ENP2VSOWB4V7U7/IMG_7339.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644249675-TMZIKJ6W8QTB5OI2W6GG/IMG_7380.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1509644324307-JG05WZH88FPDZNJ7CCT0/IMG_7182.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1568990803967-W7ZUNOU62H1JOIEEXY1C/IMG_0296.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1568990696517-B6XARC21T9KU8NT4VZUV/IMG_0323.jpeg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1568990644381-L94881OWP2PGAYWQXSQK/rewildconf19268.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/6ffa9ec2-bef4-4240-ae24-20cc3ca66b6a/Paule+headshot.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference - 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Field Class: Green Anchors PDX Green Anchors is a former shipyard and brownfield converted into a maker's space and incubator for artists and small scale sustainable businesses. It operates as an access point to the Willamette River along the east bank industrial zone. Rewild Portland has engaged in riverside restoration on the site, headed by Waterside Renewal Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring the river and land for human and other-than-human use. With a large pollinator garden and green space, along with our 100 ft greenhouse, the potential for projects is large. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/61f0bd85-feca-4b48-9790-8c516459ed6c/1-1.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference - Field Class: NAYA Community Garden Learn about NAYA Family Center, the Portland Native community, and what we are doing to reclaim traditional ancestral wisdom to address health disparities. Wapas Nah Née Shaku, which means “Holding the Basket” in Wasco, is a garden dedicated to cultivating food for the community and fostering a sense of tradition through sustainable gardening practices. Located at Neerchokikoo, an ancient Native encampment and gathering site, the garden is a space to grow food + medicine, restore the ecology adjacent to the river and ponds, share resources and connect with the land. Take part in healing and transforming a grass field back into something that honors the original peoples of the land. We will spend the morning preparing for spring by weeding, sheet mulching and planting native food and habitat species. Wear work clothes and dress for the weather, bring your favorite gloves, large shovels, tools or we'll have some to share. Facilitated by Rewild Portland volunteers and Bonz Wykman, Food Sovereignty Garden Coordinator at NAYA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/b1e27288-3dec-46e8-b19d-64c573bee693/Screenshot+2026-01-05+121345.jpg Annual North American Rewilding Conference - Field Class: Westmoreland Park This year we are partnering with Portland Parks & Recreation! We will gather at Westmoreland to plant live stakes. This ecological restoration technique involves cutting dormant, living stems from trees and shrubs and inserting them directly into the ground where they will stabilize the soil with their roots. Live stakes establish vegetation, creating food, shelter, and nesting sites for birds as well as insects. 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Their program “envisions and implements ecological awareness and place-based skills as vital and often overlooked parts of the healing and wholing of populations who have been marginalized and even represented as 'unnatural.' Our curriculums necessarily go beyond recreation in nature to deep and creative engagement with the natural world to build inter-species alliances and an enduring sense of belonging.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549663956650-BJWETRYXIR3STDXI67U4/Rewilding_Conference_Group.jpg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1635778143196-UVWV19WU5WD8B69ANGLD/IMG_3453.jpg Archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1610062829770-G8FPBKV33CCC34O2K4CN/QueerNature.jpg Archive - Queer Nature Queer Nature will be giving our keynote this year. Their program “envisions and implements ecological awareness and place-based skills as vital and often overlooked parts of the healing and wholing of populations who have been marginalized and even represented as 'unnatural.' Our curriculums necessarily go beyond recreation in nature to deep and creative engagement with the natural world to build inter-species alliances and an enduring sense of belonging.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702968601-GG8QNIR04LVJXH6FVTJG/Deana-Dartt-SAR-headshot-2017.jpg Archive Teacher Bio: Deana Dartt, PhD, a member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, is the founder of Live Oak Museum Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping museum narratives and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities. She recently served as the Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, where she revised her dissertation manuscript, “Subverting the Master Narrative,” which examines distorted representations of Native people, cultures, and histories in the Franciscan Missions and other public history sites in California. She served as Curator of Native American Ethnology at the Burke Museum and American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Washington from 2008 to 2011, and as Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum from 2011 to 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702995382-TRTM9A48RD9O5VUGQPIL/Rewild%2BHeadshots%2B09%2B%28small%29.jpg Archive Teacher Bio: Peter Michael Bauer is the executive director of Rewild Portland. He authored the book Rewild or Die, co-founded an international online discussion board for rewilding (rewild.com), and most recently began hosting the “Rewilding Podcast.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702981169-7R9WLGNXIHH0B8UVM40O/me%2B-%2BGood%2BRainFarm.jpg Archive Farmer Michelle (she/her) is of Sinixt heritage, aka Arrow Lakes People. She is the owner of x̌ast sq̓it farm which translates to Good Rain in the farmer's traditional Salish language. Her farming focuses on being good stewards of the land and culture focusing on mixed produce offerings with an emphasis on supporting food sovereignty through the availability of PNW First Foods as well as raising Champagne d'Argent, a heritage breed meat rabbit. Talk Description: Compromising with Capitalism There’s no doubt we are all modern peoples caught up in a ruthless economic structure. It can be frustrating, maddening, and disempowering when living as true to our values as we can still doesn’t feel like enough. Farmer Michelle’s been there, but has come up with a variety of ways to live by her ideals and values while still surviving and aiming to thrive within the oppressive systems we find ourselves in. After the presentation you’ll walk away with some new perspective, insights and helpful bumper rails to help you navigate making compromises within capitalism too! Follow her on instagram and on facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702957579-XFKNTKUYAFE4MNJNMACI/9A4F6274-D41E-42CB-BE11-9CDAB9179706%2B-%2BEric%2BBernando.jpeg Archive tənəs-skul yaʔim: wəl pus mayka tiki “rewild” mayka x̣umx̣um, ɬush pus mayka mash ukuk bastən lalang əbə kʰanawi ukuk lalang uk munk-məmlust x̣luyma lalang. hayu x̣luyma tilixam miɬayt kʰapa nsayka iliʔi bət weyk-qʰənchi ɬaska chaku-kəmtəks nsayka yaʔim. munk-kəmtəks ɬaksta yaʔim: Eric Bernando, yaka tilixam shawash-iliʔi pi watɬlala chinuk tilixam. wəx̣t ukuk limolo luʔlu miɬayt kʰapa ɬaska iliʔi. yaka t’uʔan ixt tayi tulu-pipa kʰapa ukuk Olegon tayi skul. yaka dret ɬush kəmtəks qʰata pus wawa yaka shawash lalang. nanich yaka yakwa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609948770624-C8O7YMM8V6VKM8B84HE9/0-2.jpg Archive - On Cultural Somatics, Animism, and 'Natural' Accountability (Copy) On Cultural Somatics, Animism, and 'Natural' Accountability We currently are living through an age of flux where an incredible amount of knowledge on social justice has proliferated through online media. This has brought us many gifts but it has also presented us with deep challenges in knowing how to wield these new intellectual technologies in our actual relationships. The current cultural conversation around cancel/call-out culture is about the real impact of this problem on our lives. In a time where so much accountability is being sought on every level, from the political to the interpersonal, there has been a sharp rise in harm and abuse in the name of accountability. This talk, centered around cultural somatics and ancestral animism, will aim to provide some grounding and orientation in the midst of this turbulence, by asking what accountability might be when we understand it as a collective embodied process towards a more shizen/自然 (natural) state. All curious beings are welcome. -- Tada Hozumi is a person of Japanese diaspora, working on Unceded Coast Salish Territories AKA Vancouver BC, as a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective. Some of their lineages in healing are: - The schools of modern creative and somatic therapies such as dance movement therapy and expressive arts therapy, with the acknowledgment that these lineages of modern therapy derive their healing power from the traditional practices of cultures of color as well as European folk cultures - Asian/Japanese ancestral wisdom traditions such as energy healing and martial arts that have come through self-practice and research - Animist ritual and thought, which has been majorly impacted by their ongoing collaboration with Dare Sohei - Street dance, particularly ‘popping’, an umbrella term for mechanical street dances that emerged from black and brown communities of the West Coast of Turtle Island during the early 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609873683375-M3K0Y6A1Q50JJ2PMI0ZX/0-1.jpg Archive - From the Deep South to Life on the Road: Defining Wildness, Seasonal Gleaning and Attempts at Reciprocity as a Lifeway (Copy) From the Deep South to Life on the Road: Defining Wildness, Seasonal Gleaning and Attempts at Reciprocity as a Lifeway Instructor Bio: Kelly Moody grew up in rural southern Virginia in tobacco and muscadine country on Occaneechi, Saponi and Meherrian traditional lands. She grew up hanging out at her grandparents' farm shelling beans and canning pickles and hanging out potting plants in tropical greenhouses at her family's hometown nursery. This past decade she spent time living simply in different landscapes studying plants, ecology, craft, writing about the land, growing food and herbs, tending on 'wild' land, or living on the road predominantly in the western so-called U.S. studying ecological connections beyond perceived regional borders. She received a B. A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and a minor in Anthropology in 2009 from Christopher Newport University focusing her research on land connection, identity and globalization. She studied herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany with Rebecca Golden in southern Vermont, Paul Strauss in southeast Ohio, Luke Learningdeer and Marc Williams in western North Carolina. She apprenticed with Juliet Blankespoor and attended the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine in 2013. She managed a farm in North Carolina for several years, studied book arts and paper-making, taught hide tanning techniques for classes held by the medieval bookbinder Jim Croft at his rural Idaho homestead for several years. Two art + activism walking residencies with Portland, Oregon based organization Signal Fire in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southwest greatly influenced the trajectory of her work. In Summer 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting on foot wild food and medicine gardens found along old Ute pathways. She has been hosting the Ground Shots Podcast for three years and writing botanical profiles from her nomadic research for six. Class Description: Firstly, I want to dig into how we define what is wild and what is not in our society today, and how this definition influences the way we see ourselves on the land, the other living beings we interact with and our sense of place. Wildness as a construct has been used to preserve or destroy, kick out or keep in. Wildness as a construct has also been a place where we look to find peace in a world that seems to will itself onto the land oppressively. What do we do with our definitions of wildness? How can we re-work and expand these definitions to better live in reciprocal relations? I will also talk about some of my own experiences tending land in different ways and what I learned from those experiences. I'll speak to growing up in the rural south on farms where settler land tending has destroyed spirits, culture and soil, and my own time organic farming trying to get at something different. And then, I'll speak to my time living on the road without sticking to a single place and foraging or intentionally tending 'wild' land nomadically. I will speak to the need for flexibility in our understanding of 'wildness' and re-thinking land tending moving forward in a world where resilience, respect and reciprocity is needed. Connect with Kelly: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com @goldenberries @groundshotspodcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609703023749-BBE691JOVWSHRS2GWZ47/21731440_1387601064627072_2119387529139158518_o.jpg Archive rain crowe belongs to the croatian, polish and ukrainian people through blood ancestry & to the descendants of life through vows. she belongs to her home on the ancestral lands of the tualatin kalapuya people, and to the lifelong commitment of unsettling.she belongs to the shadow-working witches who service justice and liberation in this time of great unraveling of empire & the return to the holy wyld. she belongs to visionkeeping the village mystery school and dream temple in service of a beyond our lifetime vision.and she belongs to her forty-eight years of creaturehood, to queer-femmedom, to white-bodied anti-racists, and to working class folx and the ethos of mutual aid in which she was raised up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702958033-3P3GNXZOLLHIPNAKWI7K/0.jpg Archive Teacher Bio: Mulysa Melco is an ecological landscape designer, horticulturist, and artist with a lifelong passion for plants and exploring our connection with the land. Her business, Resilience Design, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011, plans urban and rural landscapes that help us reclaim our connection with nature and seasonal cycles. Her work aims to cultivate a sense of place, encourage land tending, help people connect to the land they live on, repair the soil, heal the water and prepare for big changes ahead. She teaches botany and ecology classes for the Portland Underground Graduate School and Rewild Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609704054024-NIIY865R27U02YIK7R92/Nov2020Greenhouse072.jpg Archive - SITE 1: Rewild Portland’s Greenhouse Join the Rewild Portland crew for a chance to work on our new greenhouse project. We will have an assortment of tasks needing to be done in preparation for growing plants for restoration projects involving food sovereignty and climate change mitigation. Learn about our process and values, and what plants we are growing for this purpose. Take a tour of our site and see what wildlife is living just beyond the walls and on the shore of the Willamette River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1576960889080-BWG4DPYCEAMBBROL21TH/Community%2BFirst%2BFoods%2Band%2BHealing%2BProject%2B%25283%2529.jpg Archive - SITE 2: NAYA Community First Foods and Healing Space Folks will learn about NAYA Family Center, the Portland Native community, and what we are doing to reclaim traditional ancestral wisdom to address health disparities. You will have the opportunity to be part of transforming a grass field into something that honors the original peoples of the land. We will spend the morning preparing the ground for spring. Activities may include digging up earth, laying down cardboard over the grass where the Native berry garden will go, and rebuilding the side garden box where white sage will be replanted when the weather warms. We have a very limited amount of tools, so if you can bring your own, please do! (More info to come on what tools will be needed.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1579205203022-Q91RL6V2LUYFIBY9W8WB/Untitled.jpg Archive - SITE 3: Fruit Tree Pruning at Columbia Children’s Arboretum Join Rewild Portland in collaboration with the Portland Fruit Tree Project and Portland Parks as we talk about permaculture principles for the forest ecosystem, in a greater community. We will discuss wildness and restoration in urban environments, through the lens of rewilding and resilience. Putting the concepts to work, we will engage in collaborative restoration efforts with hands-on active management of a community fruit orchard. Our “social forestry” philosophy is inspired by permaculture teacher Hazel (aka Tom Ward) of Siskiyou Permaculture. For the class, we will teach how to prune the fruit trees at the orchard in the Columbia Children's Arboretum. These trees have been neglected for a while, so we're hoping to re-engage people in that space. We will host a harvest party and cider pressing there in the fall also, in collaboration with the Portland Fruit Tree Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609704334835-BEVJW2HFTC6H61PX3UTF/PH-April-Opening-2017header.jpg Archive - ZOOM: Cathlapotle Plankhouse Wild-Tending Project Join Juliet McGraw from Friends of the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge and learn about the restoration of native plants surrounding the Cathlapotle Plankhouse replica at the refuge. Become familiar with the historic Chinookan village that once sat here, and the restoration of the ecosystem that they tended—and continue to tend today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609873994351-J1BE7NPWVFYF6EKLFMQ7/ACtC-3dP0MIrfrcjf-KJ1Zqx5rSY6gdPBxU7-gI-HN9Av-bjPx0FUyWPXx77usmxUWWluSoBCLC9MOVJvSokY9qY9cw9gba2XnBr-ZYq_hm0aKmNgplX74w2Eyx1p-jKbk3nBOsuaaXe7iHFzhvF6qidaG9UZA%3Ds981-no.jpg Archive - ZOOM: Plant Propagation with Mulysa Melco Plant propagation and setting up neighborhood nurseries are essential resilience skills. When we can make more plants, we are able to share food and medicinal plants with our community, increase our local self-sufficiency, and reduce carbon footprints and chemical use. We can grow and breed plants adapted to local microclimates, and grow culturally specific food and medicine to nourish the people. Propagating plants for pollinators and predators, birds and wildlife and land repair projects can increase biodiversity and help heal our watersheds. Learn a few basics of propagating plants by cuttings, division, and seed sowing both indoors and outdoors. With an emphasis on simple, locally available materials and basic skill building, we’ll look at some examples of propagation projects for winter and spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1574400221782-JTOHURL7UIM30BO0SBXB/43041078_10216926554186365_59903261792010240_o.jpg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1574883053432-UWZI38MUGOENEC34RH06/Rewild+Headshots+09+%28small%29.jpg Archive Teacher Bio: Peter Michael Bauer is the executive director of Rewild Portland. He authored the book Rewild or Die, co-founded an international online discussion board for rewilding (rewild.com), and most recently began hosting the “Rewilding Podcast.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1576627874470-FWX73AFAGD0C5HSYU5ZZ/Deana-Dartt-SAR-headshot-2017.jpg Archive Teacher Bio: Deana Dartt, PhD, a member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, is the founder of Live Oak Museum Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping museum narratives and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities. She recently served as the Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, where she revised her dissertation manuscript, “Subverting the Master Narrative,” which examines distorted representations of Native people, cultures, and histories in the Franciscan Missions and other public history sites in California. She served as Curator of Native American Ethnology at the Burke Museum and American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Washington from 2008 to 2011, and as Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum from 2011 to 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854225896-N0IE0QXK9MMG4Z8KZXF8/me+-+Good+RainFarm.jpg Archive - Imitating Coyote: Who holds access and to what resources? (Copy) Imitating Coyote: Who holds access and to what resources? Class Description: Are we walking in Coyotes Footsteps, mimicking his poor behavior instead of learning from them? Enjoy Coyote stories from the Sinixt/Arrow Lakes people as told by Farmer Michelle. Explore the lessons to be learned behind the antics of Coyote and engage in lively conversation about all our relations, past, present and future, human and other. Farmer Michelle will present a brief review of PNW Native American history, her path to farming and how the two topics collide in her work, revitalizing culture, language, and pre-colonial diets. Join in the discussion that explores Who, What and How we have access to the intellectual, spiritual and physical resources and knowledge that our ancestors held. What is causing dissonance between our hopeful future and our current realities? What will it take to rewild ourselves? And what does each of our unique ancestries teach us about how to move forward into the uncertain future? Farmer Michelle (she/her) is of Sinixt heritage, aka Arrow Lakes People. She is the owner of x̌ast sq̓it farm which translates to Good Rain in the farmer's traditional Salish language. Her farming focuses on being good stewards of the land and culture focusing on mixed produce offerings with an emphasis on supporting food sovereignty through the availability of PNW First Foods as well as raising Champagne d'Argent, a heritage breed meat rabbit. Follow her on instagram and on facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854952095-2POS61JHDVG5WBVJAPSH/1-IMG_5623.jpg Archive - Human Health and Ecosystem Health: Weaving the Web of Food, Justice, and a Regenerative Future for All (Copy) Human Health and Ecosystem Health: Weaving the Web of Food, Justice, and a Regenerative Future for All Class Description: Today nearly 40% of the earth's surface is dedicated to growing food for people. As world population continues to grow, its likely that more land will be transitioned into agricultural production, leaving more and more non-human species without food, habitat, and access to livelihood needs. The design and implementation of current food production systems - and what's likely in the future without significant changes to how we think about and engage with our sources of sustenance - are generally wasteful of soil, nutrients, and water, and tend to exclude other species on purpose. Its also important to contextualize what kinds of agricultural "products" are being grown in this vast land area, and recognize the dietary and nutritional paradigms that have intersected to make large-scale monocultures of annual grains, beans, and oilseeds the basis of global food production systems. In reimagining these systems, its important to look at what has worked for people in their places for millennia - how did dietary needs shape landscapes prior to colonial exploitation and profit-driven capitalist food production systems? These systems provide important information about what food systems - ones that make room and encourage participation by both humans and non-humans - can look like. Making such systems functional on a large but decentralized scale will provide a means for striving towards a just and regenerative future for all that adapts to and mitigates climate change by design. Teacher Bio: Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015). She is also a farmer, gardener, seed saver, native plant propagator, medicine maker, and mother very interested in human and ecosystem health and functionality and their intersections with climate change and social justice. www.resiliencepermaculture.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582855142715-8A9986MSH1G6EKPTAS0M/9A4F6274-D41E-42CB-BE11-9CDAB9179706+-+Eric+Bernando.jpeg Archive - shawash lalang (Copy) shawash lalang tənəs-skul yaʔim: wəl pus mayka tiki “rewild” mayka x̣umx̣um, ɬush pus mayka mash ukuk bastən lalang əbə kʰanawi ukuk lalang uk munk-məmlust x̣luyma lalang. hayu x̣luyma tilixam miɬayt kʰapa nsayka iliʔi bət weyk-qʰənchi ɬaska chaku-kəmtəks nsayka yaʔim. munk-kəmtəks ɬaksta yaʔim: Eric Bernando, yaka tilixam shawash-iliʔi pi watɬlala chinuk tilixam. wəx̣t ukuk limolo luʔlu miɬayt kʰapa ɬaska iliʔi. yaka t’uʔan ixt tayi tulu-pipa kʰapa ukuk Olegon tayi skul. yaka dret ɬush kəmtəks qʰata pus wawa yaka shawash lalang. nanich yaka yakwa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854699515-S4S6L753EWB6JI210YZ7/IMG_8568+-+Thermodynamics+of+Emotion+Symposium.jpg Archive - Awakening Spoken Traditions and Memory Craft (Copy) Awakening Spoken Traditions and Memory Craft Class Description: Written literature has been a tremendous gift in many ways, allowing us to travel through time and space hear the voices of the past and present normally beyond our reach. But on the flip side, it has caused us to lose much of the wealth of our oral literatures, and to not recognize the invisibly carried treasure-houses of other cultures doing the hard work of tending the vast living menageries of their knowledge-worlds. In this workshop we'll explore re-awakening our innate ability to create memory journeys across the landscape, to use story, humor, hand-craft, and the vividness of our sensory world to encode knowledge that we deem precious. Teacher Bio: Willem Larsen has been tracking and telling stories for 25 years in the cities and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He is co-author of the Five Rules of Accelerated Learning, founder of Language Hunters (a 501 (c)(3) non-profit dedicated to heritage language revitalization), the Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium, and the College of Mythic Cartography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582855039520-8PPZLZK3HOZ61I05GPH1/Tilden%2Bnaturalist%2BJCK%2Bprofile%2B-%2BJessica%2BCarew%2BKraft.jpg Archive - Where the Wild Kids Are: Rewilding Parenting in the Digital Age (Copy) Where the Wild Kids Are: Rewilding Parenting in the Digital Age Class Description: Some parents are able to choose a natural birth, practice attachment parenting based on the continuum concept and let their toddlers explore nature in an unstructured way. Those who can go on to homeschool or unschool their children have a distinct advantage for helping their kids gain the wild skills that all humans once mastered in childhood. But for parents who are just starting their rewilding journey, or need to have their kids involved with institutional schools, formal programs, and the consumer culture at large, how can we encourage our kids' deep nature connection and free-range autonomy while challenging the sedentary, tech-focused, hierarchy-based systems they are embedded in? Through discussion and group exercises, we will actively question the privilege inherent in rewilding kids today. Re-educating and decolonizing parenting takes time and money -- families must be able to afford camps and classes, or be able to live on the land and forego work for one or more parents. Pressure is intense on mothers in particular to provide an entire village-worth of support and experience for kids. What are more cooperative and collaborative ways to create wild community for youth? We'll also explore the ways that indigenous cultures past and present approach raising new generations and how some methods are appropriate to adopt into our families and communities. This session will be an opportunity to share parenting ideas and best practices among participants. We'll hear from mothers and fathers and caregivers who have put nature at the center of their families. What worked? What failed? What resources helped? What was fun? What was difficult? Ideally we will emerge with new ideas and support to continue connecting around wild parenting. Teacher Bio: Jessica Carew Kraft is a journalist and naturalist based in the East Bay, California, formally trained in anthropology. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Wild Skills: Stone Age Wisdom for the Digital Age (Seal Press, 2021) and has written frequently on rewilding, health, education and motherhood. Her two daughters attend public elementary school by day, but transform into wild rumpus-ing wood spirits by night. Learn more about Jessica here: www.rewildkraft.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854045218-HNEWXQ6Q0RRLAIRL0X58/IMG_1016+-+Kevin+Tucker.jpeg Archive - The Trauma of Domestication (Copy) The Trauma of Domestication Class Description: With nearly eight billion people on this planet, there are nearly eight billion ways that the domestication process can wound us. We are told that domestication was an event. We are told that domestication inextricably changed who we are as a species, that it made us more human and less animal. As a story telling animal, the stories we are told have power. And at the core of power lies the domesticator’s narrative. The one that tells you we no longer are made of the world we exist within. It separates us from anything so we rely on them for everything. But the story is a lie. The reality of civilization is wounded people wounding, we become complacent with our complicity. Even in misery, we carry on. But we do so because we believe that we have no other options. They sell us on social evolution, but dependency and deprivation are the punch line. Another narrative exists. One where we tell stories that integrate us into the wild instead of deprive us of it. There is a narrative where we can immerse ourselves and live our wildness instead of burying it alive. There are beautiful and terrifying stories to tell, stories that must be told. And they are dangerous. When we stop feeling broken and alone, when we realize we are captive animals pacing the fence lines, then we can begin to find our context, and remind ourselves it’s worth fighting for. Teacher Bios: Kevin and Natasha Tucker are partners, writers, parents, and publishers with a long standing history in the world of rewilding. Their drive is to remind us of the primal anarchy that underscores our world and our relationship to it. And to show how the abuse caused and perpetuated by civilization lies at its core, yet exposes the ways to undo it. Healing is resistance and resistance is healing. Read more at blackandgreenpress.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854850623-886O3FW6S0HW1H00UO3L/IMG_1786_2.JPG Archive - Community:Land:Regeneration (Copy) Community:Land:Regeneration Class Description: The web of life that holds the world together stands with us and around us, continuing to sustain our lives. But after centuries of extractive capitalism and colonialism, the land calls for much care and repair. In this big valley, Oaks are a foundation of the web. And Oaks need the touch of human hands to thrive, or they will die. How can we take large collective action toward this repair of relationship? We will look to the history of colonialism and domination to help us understand the legacy we seek to transform. We will talk tools, visions, and experiential stories to explore how we can nurture the growth of our relationships to return oaks to the center of our lives, again. Teacher Bio: Heron Brae is a botanist, herbalist, wild tender, and community organizer. Her teaching at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies is focused on renewing our human connection to the land through direct, reciprocal relationships with wild plants. Of her most influential educational experiences, her work in collectively organizing voluntary group land tending camps to tend oak landscapes and wild roots in southern Oregon tops the list. She also holds a BS from The Evergreen State College in Botany and Ecology, and has been mentored in the ways of Social Forestry with Hazel of Siskiyou Permaculture, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854341128-W95V67SMECUG7BJQ5S4X/2019-12-16.jpg Archive - Cultural Landscapes & Oak Ecology (Copy) Cultural Landscapes & Oak Ecology Class Description: Humans and oaks have been shaping remarkable ecological systems together for thousands of years. We will overview these complex landscapes with an emphasis on local oak savannas and woodlands. We will touch on the rich ethno-botanical legacies held in these habitats and the importance of reviving their active human participation. Teacher Bio: Jesse Ambrose is a perpetual student of the natural world, focused on place-based food systems and all intersections of ecology and culture. Jesse lives in semi-arid oak woodland on the east side of Mt Hood, where they facilitate community around tending the land and eating acorns. Follow them @oak.dog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1576175919424-GJTP2WU16GW11CVKHXJU/0.jpg Archive - The Ecology of Home: Opportunities and Challenges of Living a More Place-Based Life (Copy) The Ecology of Home: Opportunities and Challenges of Living a More Place-Based Life Class Description: Many of us have a deep desire to live in our bioregion in an ecological way. This can be challenging in a globalized economy that prizes convenience, quick fixes and exults the myth of endless growth. How can our households and neighborhoods be sustainable, productive and thriving? How can we shift our culture to reconnect us with ancestral foods and with meaningful traditions? How can we build community in equitable ways and relocalize to become centers of resistance? In this workshop we look at our households, yards and neighborhoods as ecosystems and explore the interwoven ‘systems’ of our daily lives – the flows of energy, water, time, cash, nutrients/waste, care. We’ll look at the impact of the inputs and outputs of our lives, with an awareness of living on sacred, tended and un-ceded land and a social-historic perspective of the context of ancestral trauma/dislocation. We'll discuss how can whole systems design methodologies such as Permaculture can offer tools to create regenerative, reciprocal, healing systems – and we’ll consider each participant's home, yard and neighborhood. Teacher Bio: Mulysa Melco is an ecological landscape designer, horticulturist, and artist with a lifelong passion for plants and exploring our connection with the land. Her business, Resilience Design, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011, plans urban and rural landscapes that help us reclaim our connection with nature and seasonal cycles. Her work aims to cultivate a sense of place, encourage land tending, help people connect to the land they live on, repair the soil, heal the water and prepare for big changes ahead. She teaches botany and ecology classes for the Portland Underground Graduate School and Rewild Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854447201-O4TURYCB39NTH3REBILP/Joshua+Sylvae+for+ANARC.jpg Archive - As the Nervous System Strains Toward Liberation... (Copy) As the Nervous System Strains Toward Liberation... Class Description: As our human organism unfolds into what lies beyond the alienation and dislocation inherent in civilization, we may encounter patterns of psychological and emotional dysregulation that inhibit the return of wholeness. Having been severed from supports for the full maturation of the human psyche, we may need to minister to these wounds as an essential aspect of rewilding. This presentation will gather together insights emerging from somatic psychology, traumatology, anthropology, neuroscience, ethology, and other fields to describe some basic ways we can support ourselves to be more present and vital, allowing us to participate most fully in the project of dismantling systems of domination and exploitation. Teacher Bios: (r)evolve Foundation (Represented by: Joshua Sylvae & Anthony "Twig" Wheeler) Joshua Sylvae, PhD is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Portland, Oregon, a faculty member for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute as well as the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. He is the founder and Executive Director of the (r)evolve Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to educate the general public about prehistory and human origins. Anthony “Twig” Wheeler is a Cultural Animator, Consultant and the Founder/CEO of Crack in the Concrete, LLC, an independent productions company creating educational programs that engage individual and community resources on behalf of well-being. Twig holds a BA with an emphasis in Human Ecology and has trained extensively as a Somatic educator. He works as an independent consultant for helping care professionals and as a performer/public speaker on topics of human evolution, well-being and the psychobiology of traumatic stress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854782413-PF4BGYK0Z6YX7OCK4EBW/0-3.jpg Archive - Are you Prepared for Disaster? (Copy) Are you Prepared for Disaster? Class Description: When disaster strikes, it is too late to prepare…Disasters are events that create many emergencies at the same time. This presentation will provide an overview of our looming infamous disaster, the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake. Although we will discuss how Cascadia will impact our built environment, the focus will be to collectively discover the simple things we can do (and are already doing) that can help us get ready. Because professional first responders will be initially overwhelmed and forced to prioritize their response, it may take days for them to reach many hard-hit communities and individuals. It is during this time that we must rely on each other. This class is for everyone and will focus on the most critical things you can do that will help mitigate the effects of a disaster in your community. And there will be PRIZES!! A few hard hats and gloves as well as seeds to help you start your own ‘local food supply’ will be ‘raffled' to a few lucky attendees. FREE Disaster resilience educational materials will also be available. Please bring your willingness to learn, to share, and to participate fully in the discussion. Join us in learning just how critical our neighbors are, and how to work together to create safer, more disaster resilient community. Teacher Bio: Alice Busch currently serves as the Operations Division Chief for Multnomah County Emergency Management, MCEM. Her role includes managing the office’s training, exercise, duty officer, and community preparedness programs. She is also responsible for ensuring overall operational readiness and the staffing and management of the Emergency Operations Center. Prior to her roles with MCEM, Alice worked as an Emergency Manager for the Department of Human Services. Her work involved Mass Care and Sheltering, Continuity of Operations, Disaster Behavioral Health, and Donations and Volunteer Management planning. Alice started her career in the fire service. During her 21 years with the fire department, Alice served as an Emergency Manager, EMT, Public Information and Education Officer, Critical Incident Stress Manager, Fire Inspector and Fire Investigator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1539194045950-IXPI2GP5XLXGMCFD9J9Q/lewis.png.jpg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1542729150448-5EPBKWQQNFYB9TKIENGW/Ridhi+DCruz.JPG Archive - Ridhi D'Cruz As a placemaking consultant, sociocultural anthropologist, and permaculture educator living in Portland since 2010, Ridhi dedicates their life’s energy to deep relationship building through their work, scholarship and home life. They draw on the fields of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Cultural Sustainability, Social Permaculture, Community Engagement, Placemaking and Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to foster place-based empowerment within a varying spectrum of communities ranging from people facing housing insecurities locally to governmental agencies abroad. They also enthusiastically participate in life affirming practices involving urban wildcrafting, plant medicine, natural building and participatory technology. Ridhi is currently a co-Executive Director of a grassroots placemaking nonprofit organization City Repair Project based in Portland, Oregon, USA and an Oregon Humanities Conversation Project facilitator. You can reach them at ridhi@cityrepair.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1542729213283-515LN8VC4H8NUA6MGB2H/rayrayskull.JPG Archive - Rewilding the Landscape of Grief in Pale Times Rachael Rice is an artist, performer, and death doula making magical radical art for living and dying on a damaged planet. She makes work at the crossroads of grief and radical togetherness to support that which needs to pass away for the new world to be born. Find her offerings at Patreon.com/rachaelrice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1542729611460-84EHTOYXPKW2V3MSRE99/lara-280x280.jpg Archive - Lara Pacheco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1542729611430-G1NID4Q849R2HI58HH0F/tao-1-280x280.jpg Archive - Unmaking Capitalism by Remaking the Commons Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a forty-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization. Tao consults on holistic farm, forest, and restoration planning through Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC. She holds a degree in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from UC Santa Cruz, and grows organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and animals on her southern Willamette Valley homestead, Viriditas Farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1542729926078-599JSML9CRKK3BVOMR64/afrosurvivalist-vikeshkapoor-3.jpg Archive - WAKE UP! It's Time to Get Prepared The Afrovivalist is a Huntress and Urban Survivalist who encourage others to be prepared for catastrophic disasters, teaches hunting, off-grid and wilderness survival skills. She is a Preparedness Consultant who assists homeowners in preparing their homes. For more information on Afrovivalist go to afrovivalist.com and for services, please call 971-343-1101. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1544490459298-VU2YL04YO9S05U8RBR0H/nicole+oo.jpg Archive - Nicole Pepper Nicole Pepper is a queer, jew-witch, community organizer, and priestess who works with animals, plants and magic. They love their dog, Fancy, riding horses, talking to animals, swimming in rivers, writing, and connecting with plants. They organize a couple of conferences in town, the Portland Plant Medicine Gathering, and the Northwest Magic Conference, they are available for tarot readings and spellworkings in Portland, Oregon and over the phone. They can be reached at nicolepepper8@gmail.com portlandplantmedicinegathering.com nwmagicconference.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1544490587197-3I83W28WUM4Q72CEQABY/jonathan-headshot-green-moss-square.jpg Archive - How You Move is How You Live Jonathan Mead is a movement and mobility teacher, the founder of Uncaged Human and co-creator of the Embodied Strength Method. He's passionate about helping people reclaim their naturally strong, capable, resilient bodies. His mission is to help humans break free from sedentary life so they can work and play freely without fear of breaking and show up strongly for the communities they love. Instagram Youtube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1544631844813-RQ3MOB1OUF4WEANOZONY/37211541_251240955685729_6970228121744179200_n.jpg Archive - Mahma Jaguar Mahma Jaguar is a a trans Yoruba/Taina outdoor educator and story teller from Boriken living in Kalapuya and Chinook lands. She teaches urban survival skills for Vida Jibar(A). Vida Jibar(A) is an outdoor education program for Trans, Nonbinary and all people of color. https://www.instagram.com/vida.jibara/ https://www.patreon.com/mahmaoyajaguar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1545886823934-CRLWCTPD8D1VQ7RLGT3O/48362739_2110985562299463_4660355342285144064_o.jpg Archive - A Foundation for Diversity Mercy Mfon is an outdoorist and advocate for creating space for diversity in the outdoors. She founded Wild Diversity and is taking huge strides on holding safe and welcoming spaces for BIPOC and Queer & Trans folx to thrive in the outdoors. Mercy's goal is carve a new path and create new rules that truly serves her community. www.wilddiversity.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1546917134774-OB1FR2BOQ3S5ZQOZX2I5/FB_IMG_1546909365655-1.jpg Archive - Roberta Eaglehorse-Ortiz Oglala Lakota/Yomba Shoshone. Mother of 6, Full Circle Doula/Lactation Educator for 12 years. Executive Director of Oregon Inter-Tribal Breastfeeding Coalition (OITBC), founded in 2013. The Wombyns Wellness Garden is one of OITBC's programs in development, located at the Oregon Food Bank Headquarters here in Portland Oregon. We just finished our second season. It has been a wonderful journey of dreaming big, working with community. We love implimenting our cultural practices with traditional ways of knowing and doing in our simple grassroots manner. We seek to redefine unity, to promote, educate, support, and respect our diverse Native American community in Oregon; reclaiming, healthy pregnancy, safer birth practices, strong breastfeeding support and returning to the land to grow produce and herbal medicines. https://www.facebook.com/oregonintertribalbreastfeedingcoalition https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HZiLXVONZIperb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549663956650-BJWETRYXIR3STDXI67U4/Rewilding_Conference_Group.jpg Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664459199-0ODGUEQ7KKKSEQJZQZCY/Peter_Michael_Bauer.jpg Archive - Introduction to The Rewilding Conference Peter Michael Bauer has been writing and teaching about rewilding since 2006. He is creator of the international web forum rewild.com, author of the book Rewild or Die, and founder of Rewild Portland. He teaches a series of philosophy courses on rewilding, such as Rewilding 101. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664671847-GJGBC26ZEBGTAWHZHOGW/Heron+Brae.jpg Archive - Reviving the Land, Reviving the People: Wild Food Restoration and Collective Tending Models Heron Brae is an Oregon-born rewilder, organizer, and educator. She teaches beginning and advanced field studies in botany, ecology, bioregional herbalism, ethical wildcrafting, and her own program, Wild Food Tending, at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies in Eugene, Oregon. She also organizes collaborative community spaces for people to relearn belonging with the wild through direct experience with land tending, human connection, and eating wild foods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664689735-YTQXY2IVK0IHX3ZOMGU4/lara.jpg Archive - Decolonizing Herbalism Lara Pacheco is a Taína, Latinx mamita who believes that our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves by weaving ourselves into the web of ancestral medicine. Lara directly works through ancestral medicine with plants and fungi. When not caring for her family, land, and all creatures, Lara runs Seed and Thistle Apothecary, an educational resource, and co-runs the Seasonal Wellness Clinic, which works to provide access to herbal medicine and massage for marginalized communities, and Brown Girl Rise, a youth empowerment program for young femmes of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664376508-8IZA0I4GJ7ODR2K9ZKU2/Willem+Larsen.jpg Archive - Animist Physics: Rewilding the Science of Everything Willem Larsen is founder of Language Hunters (a nonprofit organization that trains communities to revitalize their own endangered heritage languages), host of the Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium, blogger and podcaster for thirteen years at the College of Mythic Cartography, and both a wildlife tracker and Search and Rescue tracker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664799197-5P2MDWK7XG1WFDDQB8EV/meoutside.jpg Archive - Rewilding as Resistance Kevin Tucker is an anarcho-primitivist writer. He runs Black and Green Press and is the founding co-editor of Black and Green Review, a bi-annual journal for a passionate resistance through wild existence. He is also author of For Wildness and Anarchy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664358848-H06HFXJDRJTNSYEJXASJ/Ariel+Greenwood.jpg Archive - Graze Against the Machine Ariel Greenwood is a feral agrarian—one who works with domestic species to help landscapes and people become more wild. As a grazier, she is working with herbivores across thousands of acres in northern California to foster tangible improvement in the health of her food- and watershed. Check out what she is up to at her website arielgreenwood.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664359189-CSV5U9I513ULXL1JZD5C/Douglas+Tsoi.jpg Archive - PUGS: An alternative to the educational industrial complex Douglas Tsoi is the founder of Portland Underground Grad School. Before starting PUGS, he had previous careers as a corporate lawyer, Quaker schoolteacher, and climate change professional. In his spare time he plays soccer, eats, and naps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549665055918-988IMJZKQ2UANEYMPAE7/L%26MBAEA.1.jpg Archive - Rewilding Wildlife Lacy Campbell, self-professed "bird nerd," has been managing the Wildlife Care Center for the Audubon Society of Portland for the past five years. When she isn't chasing down eagles or wrangling skunks, she enjoys trail running, playing bagpipes, and musing on rewilding. One day she hopes to know as much about plants as she does about wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664359863-LA95L5BS6DZMRJ1MFIKV/Jordan+Fink.jpg Archive - Climate ReInhabitation: Taking Responsibility for the Anthropocene Jordan Fink was born on the eastern shore of the Willamette River, near its mouth. He grew up looking for buried streams. He is the founder and co-director of a project to reverse climate change through collaborative design and development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664393223-DHJI3HQ92DRQZHF1R7PU/Solveig+Nilsen-Goodin.JPG Archive - Rewilding Empire Christianities Rev. Solveig Nilsen-Goodin is ordained in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and committed to rewilding the church. In 2011 she founded an alternative church here in Portland, the Wilderness Way Community—a community of both Christians and non-Christians—to support the development of "wild" Christian disciples and fearless spiritual leaders to deeply engage the perils and possibilities of this historical moment. Solveig is also a leader within EcoFaith Recovery, an author, a musician, and a spiritual director who sees clients in her backyard yurt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549664560324-P8RWM7QBI4XS2HYXE3KV/Teri+Lysak.jpg Archive - Animal Tracking and Community Science as a way of Teaching about the Natural World Teri Lysak runs a nonprofit called Cascadia Wild, where she teaches animal tracking and wild plant foraging, and runs a community science project that organizes volunteers to carry out carnivore surveys on Mt. Hood. Prior to this, she worked as a forester for the Washington Department of Natural Resources and US Forest Service. She holds an MS in Forest Ecology from Oregon State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1549665116072-EFK5XOTFHT24C179FSVL/mulysa-1.jpg Archive - Rewilding AND Permaculture Mulysa Melco is an ecological landscape designer, horticulturist, and artist with a lifelong passion for plants and exploring our connection with the land. She has degrees from the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2011 she started a community campaign to make her North Portland neighborhood pesticide free. Her landscaping company is called Resilience Design. https://www.rewilding.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://www.rewilding.com/new-page daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://www.rewilding.com/2023-speakers daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1672424643867-DVC7KIM3TF0ASLX2ODNT/cropped-peter-michael-bauer-portrait-smol-square.jpg 6th Annual Speakers - Peter Michael Bauer: Rewilding 101 (Copy) Peter Michael Bauer: Rewilding 101 Biography: Peter Michael Bauer is an anthropologist, experimental archaeologist, historian, and life-long community organizer. His work focuses on the social and environmental impacts of the neolithic revolution, and how understanding these impacts can provide us with solutions to the sixth mass extinction. Since the early 2000’s, he has been an integral catalyst in the human rewilding movement. He created the first international online rewilding forum (now archived at discuss.rewild.com), wrote a book on rewilding called Rewild or Die, founded the organization Rewild Portland (where he teaches classes), and created the Annual North American Rewilding Conference. Description: Rewilding is a principle, or a lens, that helps us see and move through the world in terms of regeneration and reciprocity. It is not the “one right way”—it is a million ways to live in the flow of natural cycles. It recognizes that humans are not above those flows, and that it is actually more beneficial to our ecosystems when we acknowledge and become part of them. This movement works to create resilience through the return to place-based, regenerative subsistence strategies, inspired by those that exist outside of–and those that existed prior to–the formation of agrarian states. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/5c2706cf-c4f3-4dd9-8f6d-fce3f039de58/0.jpg 6th Annual Speakers - Talilo Marfil: Roots Have Bars (Copy) Talilo Marfil: Roots Have Bars Description: Talilo will be giving a presentation on his life before, during, and after prison, with the aim of showing how being uprooted from his homeland set him on a journey of reclaiming his roots. His lost identity subsequently led him to a life on the streets and eventually jail and prison. Though his cultural roots were not found until later in life, he learned to embrace his lost identity as a part of those roots and use his voice to speak to those who are still trying to find their own. Biography: Talilo Marfil is a West Bisayan immigrant, Filipino-American hip-hop artist, and teacher residing in the Rose City, Portland, Oregon. For the past decade he has dedicated his life to providing the next generation with the tools to express their own stories. In 2014 Talilo was instrumental in throwing a hip-hop show called "Stories from the Streets" at Pioneer Square, a benefit show for New Avenues for Youth’s (NAFY’s) Artist Mentorship Program (AMP), serving homeless youth in the Portland Metro Area. In 2016 he combined his passions for music, video, and teaching with other educators and co-founded Cypher Cure, a program that engages youth in hip-hop projects through the art of cyphering in a circle. Talilo then started Ascending Flow, a program focused on mentoring foster alums aging out of the DHS system, supporting them on their path to independence through exploring positive outlets and connecting that to mental wellness. In addition to running Ascending Flow, Talilo also helps co-create programming at the Keys Beats Bars program at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. Keys Beats Bars is “an arts-integrated, culturally and trauma responsive project providing audiovisual and holistic music programming for justice-involved, incarcerated, and marginalized youth in Oregon.” Talilo connects music and expression at the forefront of his work and believes that his own career in music is directly connected to his influence on his community work. And it's no surprise that he has shared the stage with the likes of Afroman, Spice One, Suga Free, Andre Nickatina, Stevie Stone, Gift of Gab, Amine, and Baby Bash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1670374316472-AH1RJJ25KABMU7O0B06Q/larissa+headshotcrop_JPG.jpg 6th Annual Speakers - Larissa Kaul: Nondual Play in the Queer Universe (for Sad Scared Hoomyns) (Copy) Larissa Kaul: Nondual Play in the Queer Universe (for Sad Scared Hoomyns) Description: How do organisms decide how to interact with their environment, and their temporary lives? Where do the patterns and habits that define our cultures and subcultures, our relationships and everyday experiences come from? And if they are making us miserable, how do we change them? Just like all organisms on this planet we are in the middle of an ongoing and intricate conversation between our relatively autonomous bodily experience and everything else; our internal landscape, the surrounding ecology which includes social systems, the subtle realms that bind it all together, and everything that is born between or as a result of these various elements. It’s quite a playground, but a playground that persists only through natural principles that have limits and consequences for how to continue. When the water is all gone, many players in the playground will no longer get to play. When all the forests are depleted, breathing oxygen will become a niche market. This playground called Earth and the Cosmos requires not just any conversation to be happening between its inhabitants and their context, but an attuned and adaptive conversation, a conversation that allows for coordinated learning and play in response to the exact circumstances we find ourselves in. Join Dare and Larissa on a trip through the Queer Universe where every sensation, thought, emotion, gesture, and presence is both a doorway and a bridge to an immediate opportunity for adaptive creative participation. Where narrative is a temporary voice that guides the unfolding dream, and then recedes back into space. Where worlds are made and enjoyed and then unmade again. This talk-experience brings together the views and methods of pain science, the roots of creative expression, nondual perspectives, poetic ecology, and systems sensing as an invitation into immediacy, play and improvisation. Biographies: Animist Arts (Directed by Larissa Kaul and Dare [sohei] Carrasquillo) create from a nondual animist lens, which means we treat all phenomena as beings and living systems that have inherent spirit-full capacity and agency, and exist outside of human concepts of good/bad or right/wrong. We understand all beings to be interdependent and impermanent, compound parts of ecosystems and collective bodies that arise, transform, and decay at varying scales and timelines. Further, we engage with artistic expression and creativity as ancestral technologies around which diverse social processes can aggregate, mutate, and distribute according to specific needs and contexts. This can range from individual research projects, devising works of art, shifts in organizational structures, bringing balance into relationships and communities, and creating deeper awareness and adaptation across networks, human and nonhuman. Play-as-Learning, Indigenous wisdom principles, queer ecology and disability justice show us ways to ethically manage our human desires, pains and fears as we work towards harm reduction and equitable social systems–while simultaneously cultivating our personal and collective death practices for the benefit of all beings, seen and unseen; known, unknown, and unknowable. www.animistarts.art www.patreon.com/animistarts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1670374277220-X9GQGXY6MYNIYARH05LB/dare+mural+smile.jpg 6th Annual Speakers - Dare [sohei] Carrasquillo: Nondual Play in the Queer Universe (for Sad Scared Hoomyns) (Copy) Dare [sohei] Carrasquillo: Nondual Play in the Queer Universe (for Sad Scared Hoomyns) Description How do organisms decide how to interact with their environment, and their temporary lives? Where do the patterns and habits that define our cultures and subcultures, our relationships and everyday experiences come from? And if they are making us miserable, how do we change them? Just like all organisms on this planet we are in the middle of an ongoing and intricate conversation between our relatively autonomous bodily experience and everything else; our internal landscape, the surrounding ecology which includes social systems, the subtle realms that bind it all together, and everything that is born between or as a result of these various elements. It’s quite a playground, but a playground that persists only through natural principles that have limits and consequences for how to continue. When the water is all gone, many players in the playground will no longer get to play. When all the forests are depleted, breathing oxygen will become a niche market. This playground called Earth and the Cosmos requires not just any conversation to be happening between its inhabitants and their context, but an attuned and adaptive conversation, a conversation that allows for coordinated learning and play in response to the exact circumstances we find ourselves in. Join Dare and Larissa on a trip through the Queer Universe where every sensation, thought, emotion, gesture, and presence is both a doorway and a bridge to an immediate opportunity for adaptive creative participation. Where narrative is a temporary voice that guides the unfolding dream, and then recedes back into space. Where worlds are made and enjoyed and then unmade again. This talk-experience brings together the views and methods of pain science, the roots of creative expression, nondual perspectives, poetic ecology, and systems sensing as an invitation into immediacy, play and improvisation. Biographies: Animist Arts (Directed by Larissa Kaul and Dare [sohei] Carrasquillo) create from a nondual animist lens, which means we treat all phenomena as beings and living systems that have inherent spirit-full capacity and agency, and exist outside of human concepts of good/bad or right/wrong. We understand all beings to be interdependent and impermanent, compound parts of ecosystems and collective bodies that arise, transform, and decay at varying scales and timelines. Further, we engage with artistic expression and creativity as ancestral technologies around which diverse social processes can aggregate, mutate, and distribute according to specific needs and contexts. This can range from individual research projects, devising works of art, shifts in organizational structures, bringing balance into relationships and communities, and creating deeper awareness and adaptation across networks, human and nonhuman. Play-as-Learning, Indigenous wisdom principles, queer ecology and disability justice show us ways to ethically manage our human desires, pains and fears as we work towards harm reduction and equitable social systems–while simultaneously cultivating our personal and collective death practices for the benefit of all beings, seen and unseen; known, unknown, and unknowable. www.animistarts.art www.patreon.com/animistarts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1672424405435-4LR6E19CKUZUYZ0UIHQY/ec329297516854c12902cd143bf78ac8cc2665e4ee54dc2f6af64d6ff76fe5b5.jpg 6th Annual Speakers - Joris Lechene: Decolonising Neurodivergence (Copy) Joris Lechene: Decolonising Neurodivergence Biography: Anti-racism, Bias and Privilege Trainer and Social Commentator. Drawing on my experience of various marginalised identities at the intersections of race, neurodivergence, class and sexual orientation, I combine my practice of sociology with my background in architecture to create workshops, content and strategies tackling the topics of systemic inequalities, bias and decolonisation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1673456561294-6Y6C0NHR1C7SJNK08ULZ/Screenshot+2023-01-11+at+9.02.19+AM.png 6th Annual Speakers - Shelby Lynn: Symbiotic Foraging: Foraging as a Mutualistic Relationship (Copy) Shelby Lynn: Symbiotic Foraging: Foraging as a Mutualistic Relationship Description: Foraging wild foods can sometimes be seen as extractive- taking the things you want to the detriment of the environment. But when your foraging practice is based on a kinship worldview, foraging can be not only harmless but actively beneficial for the ecosystem. Humans are an integral part of the landscape, creating disturbances that (when done properly) encourage new growth. This practice has historically been common in cultures all over the globe, but is something many of us have lost touch with in a society that values profits over relationships. In this lecture we’ll talk about the philosophy of symbiotic foraging relationships, as well as getting into the nitty gritty of how to harvest, utilize and replant several plant species. Biography: Shelby Lynn is, fundamentally, a nerd. A big fan of all the living things, Shelby has been teaching about the unique ecology of the Pacific Northwest for the last 17 years. Shelby’s practice combines foraging for food, textiles, basketry and herbalism with habitat restoration, permaculture principles and collective liberation. https://www.rewilding.com/5th-annual-speakers daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://www.rewilding.com/2020-classes daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1574883053432-UWZI38MUGOENEC34RH06/Rewild+Headshots+09+%28small%29.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers Teacher Bio: Peter Michael Bauer is the executive director of Rewild Portland. He authored the book Rewild or Die, co-founded an international online discussion board for rewilding (rewild.com), and most recently began hosting the “Rewilding Podcast.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1576627874470-FWX73AFAGD0C5HSYU5ZZ/Deana-Dartt-SAR-headshot-2017.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers Teacher Bio: Deana Dartt, PhD, a member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, is the founder of Live Oak Museum Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping museum narratives and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities. She recently served as the Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, where she revised her dissertation manuscript, “Subverting the Master Narrative,” which examines distorted representations of Native people, cultures, and histories in the Franciscan Missions and other public history sites in California. She served as Curator of Native American Ethnology at the Burke Museum and American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Washington from 2008 to 2011, and as Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum from 2011 to 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854225896-N0IE0QXK9MMG4Z8KZXF8/me+-+Good+RainFarm.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Imitating Coyote: Who holds access and to what resources? (Copy) Imitating Coyote: Who holds access and to what resources? Class Description: Are we walking in Coyotes Footsteps, mimicking his poor behavior instead of learning from them? Enjoy Coyote stories from the Sinixt/Arrow Lakes people as told by Farmer Michelle. Explore the lessons to be learned behind the antics of Coyote and engage in lively conversation about all our relations, past, present and future, human and other. Farmer Michelle will present a brief review of PNW Native American history, her path to farming and how the two topics collide in her work, revitalizing culture, language, and pre-colonial diets. Join in the discussion that explores Who, What and How we have access to the intellectual, spiritual and physical resources and knowledge that our ancestors held. What is causing dissonance between our hopeful future and our current realities? What will it take to rewild ourselves? And what does each of our unique ancestries teach us about how to move forward into the uncertain future? Farmer Michelle (she/her) is of Sinixt heritage, aka Arrow Lakes People. She is the owner of x̌ast sq̓it farm which translates to Good Rain in the farmer's traditional Salish language. Her farming focuses on being good stewards of the land and culture focusing on mixed produce offerings with an emphasis on supporting food sovereignty through the availability of PNW First Foods as well as raising Champagne d'Argent, a heritage breed meat rabbit. Follow her on instagram and on facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854952095-2POS61JHDVG5WBVJAPSH/1-IMG_5623.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Human Health and Ecosystem Health: Weaving the Web of Food, Justice, and a Regenerative Future for All (Copy) Human Health and Ecosystem Health: Weaving the Web of Food, Justice, and a Regenerative Future for All Class Description: Today nearly 40% of the earth's surface is dedicated to growing food for people. As world population continues to grow, its likely that more land will be transitioned into agricultural production, leaving more and more non-human species without food, habitat, and access to livelihood needs. The design and implementation of current food production systems - and what's likely in the future without significant changes to how we think about and engage with our sources of sustenance - are generally wasteful of soil, nutrients, and water, and tend to exclude other species on purpose. Its also important to contextualize what kinds of agricultural "products" are being grown in this vast land area, and recognize the dietary and nutritional paradigms that have intersected to make large-scale monocultures of annual grains, beans, and oilseeds the basis of global food production systems. In reimagining these systems, its important to look at what has worked for people in their places for millennia - how did dietary needs shape landscapes prior to colonial exploitation and profit-driven capitalist food production systems? These systems provide important information about what food systems - ones that make room and encourage participation by both humans and non-humans - can look like. Making such systems functional on a large but decentralized scale will provide a means for striving towards a just and regenerative future for all that adapts to and mitigates climate change by design. Teacher Bio: Tao Orion is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015). She is also a farmer, gardener, seed saver, native plant propagator, medicine maker, and mother very interested in human and ecosystem health and functionality and their intersections with climate change and social justice. www.resiliencepermaculture.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582855142715-8A9986MSH1G6EKPTAS0M/9A4F6274-D41E-42CB-BE11-9CDAB9179706+-+Eric+Bernando.jpeg 3rd Annual Speakers - shawash lalang (Copy) shawash lalang tənəs-skul yaʔim: wəl pus mayka tiki “rewild” mayka x̣umx̣um, ɬush pus mayka mash ukuk bastən lalang əbə kʰanawi ukuk lalang uk munk-məmlust x̣luyma lalang. hayu x̣luyma tilixam miɬayt kʰapa nsayka iliʔi bət weyk-qʰənchi ɬaska chaku-kəmtəks nsayka yaʔim. munk-kəmtəks ɬaksta yaʔim: Eric Bernando, yaka tilixam shawash-iliʔi pi watɬlala chinuk tilixam. wəx̣t ukuk limolo luʔlu miɬayt kʰapa ɬaska iliʔi. yaka t’uʔan ixt tayi tulu-pipa kʰapa ukuk Olegon tayi skul. yaka dret ɬush kəmtəks qʰata pus wawa yaka shawash lalang. nanich yaka yakwa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854699515-S4S6L753EWB6JI210YZ7/IMG_8568+-+Thermodynamics+of+Emotion+Symposium.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Awakening Spoken Traditions and Memory Craft (Copy) Awakening Spoken Traditions and Memory Craft Class Description: Written literature has been a tremendous gift in many ways, allowing us to travel through time and space hear the voices of the past and present normally beyond our reach. But on the flip side, it has caused us to lose much of the wealth of our oral literatures, and to not recognize the invisibly carried treasure-houses of other cultures doing the hard work of tending the vast living menageries of their knowledge-worlds. In this workshop we'll explore re-awakening our innate ability to create memory journeys across the landscape, to use story, humor, hand-craft, and the vividness of our sensory world to encode knowledge that we deem precious. Teacher Bio: Willem Larsen has been tracking and telling stories for 25 years in the cities and wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. He is co-author of the Five Rules of Accelerated Learning, founder of Language Hunters (a 501 (c)(3) non-profit dedicated to heritage language revitalization), the Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium, and the College of Mythic Cartography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582855039520-8PPZLZK3HOZ61I05GPH1/Tilden%2Bnaturalist%2BJCK%2Bprofile%2B-%2BJessica%2BCarew%2BKraft.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Where the Wild Kids Are: Rewilding Parenting in the Digital Age (Copy) Where the Wild Kids Are: Rewilding Parenting in the Digital Age Class Description: Some parents are able to choose a natural birth, practice attachment parenting based on the continuum concept and let their toddlers explore nature in an unstructured way. Those who can go on to homeschool or unschool their children have a distinct advantage for helping their kids gain the wild skills that all humans once mastered in childhood. But for parents who are just starting their rewilding journey, or need to have their kids involved with institutional schools, formal programs, and the consumer culture at large, how can we encourage our kids' deep nature connection and free-range autonomy while challenging the sedentary, tech-focused, hierarchy-based systems they are embedded in? Through discussion and group exercises, we will actively question the privilege inherent in rewilding kids today. Re-educating and decolonizing parenting takes time and money -- families must be able to afford camps and classes, or be able to live on the land and forego work for one or more parents. Pressure is intense on mothers in particular to provide an entire village-worth of support and experience for kids. What are more cooperative and collaborative ways to create wild community for youth? We'll also explore the ways that indigenous cultures past and present approach raising new generations and how some methods are appropriate to adopt into our families and communities. This session will be an opportunity to share parenting ideas and best practices among participants. We'll hear from mothers and fathers and caregivers who have put nature at the center of their families. What worked? What failed? What resources helped? What was fun? What was difficult? Ideally we will emerge with new ideas and support to continue connecting around wild parenting. Teacher Bio: Jessica Carew Kraft is a journalist and naturalist based in the East Bay, California, formally trained in anthropology. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Wild Skills: Stone Age Wisdom for the Digital Age (Seal Press, 2021) and has written frequently on rewilding, health, education and motherhood. Her two daughters attend public elementary school by day, but transform into wild rumpus-ing wood spirits by night. Learn more about Jessica here: www.rewildkraft.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854045218-HNEWXQ6Q0RRLAIRL0X58/IMG_1016+-+Kevin+Tucker.jpeg 3rd Annual Speakers - The Trauma of Domestication (Copy) The Trauma of Domestication Class Description: With nearly eight billion people on this planet, there are nearly eight billion ways that the domestication process can wound us. We are told that domestication was an event. We are told that domestication inextricably changed who we are as a species, that it made us more human and less animal. As a story telling animal, the stories we are told have power. And at the core of power lies the domesticator’s narrative. The one that tells you we no longer are made of the world we exist within. It separates us from anything so we rely on them for everything. But the story is a lie. The reality of civilization is wounded people wounding, we become complacent with our complicity. Even in misery, we carry on. But we do so because we believe that we have no other options. They sell us on social evolution, but dependency and deprivation are the punch line. Another narrative exists. One where we tell stories that integrate us into the wild instead of deprive us of it. There is a narrative where we can immerse ourselves and live our wildness instead of burying it alive. There are beautiful and terrifying stories to tell, stories that must be told. And they are dangerous. When we stop feeling broken and alone, when we realize we are captive animals pacing the fence lines, then we can begin to find our context, and remind ourselves it’s worth fighting for. Teacher Bios: Kevin and Natasha Tucker are partners, writers, parents, and publishers with a long standing history in the world of rewilding. Their drive is to remind us of the primal anarchy that underscores our world and our relationship to it. And to show how the abuse caused and perpetuated by civilization lies at its core, yet exposes the ways to undo it. Healing is resistance and resistance is healing. Read more at blackandgreenpress.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854850623-886O3FW6S0HW1H00UO3L/IMG_1786_2.JPG 3rd Annual Speakers - Community:Land:Regeneration (Copy) Community:Land:Regeneration Class Description: The web of life that holds the world together stands with us and around us, continuing to sustain our lives. But after centuries of extractive capitalism and colonialism, the land calls for much care and repair. In this big valley, Oaks are a foundation of the web. And Oaks need the touch of human hands to thrive, or they will die. How can we take large collective action toward this repair of relationship? We will look to the history of colonialism and domination to help us understand the legacy we seek to transform. We will talk tools, visions, and experiential stories to explore how we can nurture the growth of our relationships to return oaks to the center of our lives, again. Teacher Bio: Heron Brae is a botanist, herbalist, wild tender, and community organizer. Her teaching at the Columbines School of Botanical Studies is focused on renewing our human connection to the land through direct, reciprocal relationships with wild plants. Of her most influential educational experiences, her work in collectively organizing voluntary group land tending camps to tend oak landscapes and wild roots in southern Oregon tops the list. She also holds a BS from The Evergreen State College in Botany and Ecology, and has been mentored in the ways of Social Forestry with Hazel of Siskiyou Permaculture, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854341128-W95V67SMECUG7BJQ5S4X/2019-12-16.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Cultural Landscapes & Oak Ecology (Copy) Cultural Landscapes & Oak Ecology Class Description: Humans and oaks have been shaping remarkable ecological systems together for thousands of years. We will overview these complex landscapes with an emphasis on local oak savannas and woodlands. We will touch on the rich ethno-botanical legacies held in these habitats and the importance of reviving their active human participation. Teacher Bio: Jesse Ambrose is a perpetual student of the natural world, focused on place-based food systems and all intersections of ecology and culture. Jesse lives in semi-arid oak woodland on the east side of Mt Hood, where they facilitate community around tending the land and eating acorns. Follow them @oak.dog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1576175919424-GJTP2WU16GW11CVKHXJU/0.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - The Ecology of Home: Opportunities and Challenges of Living a More Place-Based Life (Copy) The Ecology of Home: Opportunities and Challenges of Living a More Place-Based Life Class Description: Many of us have a deep desire to live in our bioregion in an ecological way. This can be challenging in a globalized economy that prizes convenience, quick fixes and exults the myth of endless growth. How can our households and neighborhoods be sustainable, productive and thriving? How can we shift our culture to reconnect us with ancestral foods and with meaningful traditions? How can we build community in equitable ways and relocalize to become centers of resistance? In this workshop we look at our households, yards and neighborhoods as ecosystems and explore the interwoven ‘systems’ of our daily lives – the flows of energy, water, time, cash, nutrients/waste, care. We’ll look at the impact of the inputs and outputs of our lives, with an awareness of living on sacred, tended and un-ceded land and a social-historic perspective of the context of ancestral trauma/dislocation. We'll discuss how can whole systems design methodologies such as Permaculture can offer tools to create regenerative, reciprocal, healing systems – and we’ll consider each participant's home, yard and neighborhood. Teacher Bio: Mulysa Melco is an ecological landscape designer, horticulturist, and artist with a lifelong passion for plants and exploring our connection with the land. Her business, Resilience Design, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011, plans urban and rural landscapes that help us reclaim our connection with nature and seasonal cycles. Her work aims to cultivate a sense of place, encourage land tending, help people connect to the land they live on, repair the soil, heal the water and prepare for big changes ahead. She teaches botany and ecology classes for the Portland Underground Graduate School and Rewild Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854447201-O4TURYCB39NTH3REBILP/Joshua+Sylvae+for+ANARC.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - As the Nervous System Strains Toward Liberation... (Copy) As the Nervous System Strains Toward Liberation... Class Description: As our human organism unfolds into what lies beyond the alienation and dislocation inherent in civilization, we may encounter patterns of psychological and emotional dysregulation that inhibit the return of wholeness. Having been severed from supports for the full maturation of the human psyche, we may need to minister to these wounds as an essential aspect of rewilding. This presentation will gather together insights emerging from somatic psychology, traumatology, anthropology, neuroscience, ethology, and other fields to describe some basic ways we can support ourselves to be more present and vital, allowing us to participate most fully in the project of dismantling systems of domination and exploitation. Teacher Bios: (r)evolve Foundation (Represented by: Joshua Sylvae & Anthony "Twig" Wheeler) Joshua Sylvae, PhD is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Portland, Oregon, a faculty member for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute as well as the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. He is the founder and Executive Director of the (r)evolve Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to educate the general public about prehistory and human origins. Anthony “Twig” Wheeler is a Cultural Animator, Consultant and the Founder/CEO of Crack in the Concrete, LLC, an independent productions company creating educational programs that engage individual and community resources on behalf of well-being. Twig holds a BA with an emphasis in Human Ecology and has trained extensively as a Somatic educator. He works as an independent consultant for helping care professionals and as a performer/public speaker on topics of human evolution, well-being and the psychobiology of traumatic stress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1582854782413-PF4BGYK0Z6YX7OCK4EBW/0-3.jpg 3rd Annual Speakers - Are you Prepared for Disaster? (Copy) Are you Prepared for Disaster? Class Description: When disaster strikes, it is too late to prepare…Disasters are events that create many emergencies at the same time. This presentation will provide an overview of our looming infamous disaster, the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake. Although we will discuss how Cascadia will impact our built environment, the focus will be to collectively discover the simple things we can do (and are already doing) that can help us get ready. Because professional first responders will be initially overwhelmed and forced to prioritize their response, it may take days for them to reach many hard-hit communities and individuals. It is during this time that we must rely on each other. This class is for everyone and will focus on the most critical things you can do that will help mitigate the effects of a disaster in your community. And there will be PRIZES!! A few hard hats and gloves as well as seeds to help you start your own ‘local food supply’ will be ‘raffled' to a few lucky attendees. FREE Disaster resilience educational materials will also be available. Please bring your willingness to learn, to share, and to participate fully in the discussion. Join us in learning just how critical our neighbors are, and how to work together to create safer, more disaster resilient community. Teacher Bio: Alice Busch currently serves as the Operations Division Chief for Multnomah County Emergency Management, MCEM. Her role includes managing the office’s training, exercise, duty officer, and community preparedness programs. She is also responsible for ensuring overall operational readiness and the staffing and management of the Emergency Operations Center. Prior to her roles with MCEM, Alice worked as an Emergency Manager for the Department of Human Services. Her work involved Mass Care and Sheltering, Continuity of Operations, Disaster Behavioral Health, and Donations and Volunteer Management planning. Alice started her career in the fire service. During her 21 years with the fire department, Alice served as an Emergency Manager, EMT, Public Information and Education Officer, Critical Incident Stress Manager, Fire Inspector and Fire Investigator https://www.rewilding.com/2021-classes daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702968601-GG8QNIR04LVJXH6FVTJG/Deana-Dartt-SAR-headshot-2017.jpg 4th Annual Speakers Teacher Bio: Deana Dartt, PhD, a member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, is the founder of Live Oak Museum Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping museum narratives and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities. She recently served as the Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, where she revised her dissertation manuscript, “Subverting the Master Narrative,” which examines distorted representations of Native people, cultures, and histories in the Franciscan Missions and other public history sites in California. She served as Curator of Native American Ethnology at the Burke Museum and American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Washington from 2008 to 2011, and as Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum from 2011 to 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702995382-TRTM9A48RD9O5VUGQPIL/Rewild%2BHeadshots%2B09%2B%28small%29.jpg 4th Annual Speakers Teacher Bio: Peter Michael Bauer is the executive director of Rewild Portland. He authored the book Rewild or Die, co-founded an international online discussion board for rewilding (rewild.com), and most recently began hosting the “Rewilding Podcast.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702981169-7R9WLGNXIHH0B8UVM40O/me%2B-%2BGood%2BRainFarm.jpg 4th Annual Speakers Farmer Michelle (she/her) is of Sinixt heritage, aka Arrow Lakes People. She is the owner of x̌ast sq̓it farm which translates to Good Rain in the farmer's traditional Salish language. Her farming focuses on being good stewards of the land and culture focusing on mixed produce offerings with an emphasis on supporting food sovereignty through the availability of PNW First Foods as well as raising Champagne d'Argent, a heritage breed meat rabbit. Talk Description: Compromising with Capitalism There’s no doubt we are all modern peoples caught up in a ruthless economic structure. It can be frustrating, maddening, and disempowering when living as true to our values as we can still doesn’t feel like enough. Farmer Michelle’s been there, but has come up with a variety of ways to live by her ideals and values while still surviving and aiming to thrive within the oppressive systems we find ourselves in. After the presentation you’ll walk away with some new perspective, insights and helpful bumper rails to help you navigate making compromises within capitalism too! Follow her on instagram and on facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702957579-XFKNTKUYAFE4MNJNMACI/9A4F6274-D41E-42CB-BE11-9CDAB9179706%2B-%2BEric%2BBernando.jpeg 4th Annual Speakers tənəs-skul yaʔim: wəl pus mayka tiki “rewild” mayka x̣umx̣um, ɬush pus mayka mash ukuk bastən lalang əbə kʰanawi ukuk lalang uk munk-məmlust x̣luyma lalang. hayu x̣luyma tilixam miɬayt kʰapa nsayka iliʔi bət weyk-qʰənchi ɬaska chaku-kəmtəks nsayka yaʔim. munk-kəmtəks ɬaksta yaʔim: Eric Bernando, yaka tilixam shawash-iliʔi pi watɬlala chinuk tilixam. wəx̣t ukuk limolo luʔlu miɬayt kʰapa ɬaska iliʔi. yaka t’uʔan ixt tayi tulu-pipa kʰapa ukuk Olegon tayi skul. yaka dret ɬush kəmtəks qʰata pus wawa yaka shawash lalang. nanich yaka yakwa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609948770624-C8O7YMM8V6VKM8B84HE9/0-2.jpg 4th Annual Speakers - On Cultural Somatics, Animism, and 'Natural' Accountability (Copy) On Cultural Somatics, Animism, and 'Natural' Accountability We currently are living through an age of flux where an incredible amount of knowledge on social justice has proliferated through online media. This has brought us many gifts but it has also presented us with deep challenges in knowing how to wield these new intellectual technologies in our actual relationships. The current cultural conversation around cancel/call-out culture is about the real impact of this problem on our lives. In a time where so much accountability is being sought on every level, from the political to the interpersonal, there has been a sharp rise in harm and abuse in the name of accountability. This talk, centered around cultural somatics and ancestral animism, will aim to provide some grounding and orientation in the midst of this turbulence, by asking what accountability might be when we understand it as a collective embodied process towards a more shizen/自然 (natural) state. All curious beings are welcome. -- Tada Hozumi is a person of Japanese diaspora, working on Unceded Coast Salish Territories AKA Vancouver BC, as a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective. Some of their lineages in healing are: - The schools of modern creative and somatic therapies such as dance movement therapy and expressive arts therapy, with the acknowledgment that these lineages of modern therapy derive their healing power from the traditional practices of cultures of color as well as European folk cultures - Asian/Japanese ancestral wisdom traditions such as energy healing and martial arts that have come through self-practice and research - Animist ritual and thought, which has been majorly impacted by their ongoing collaboration with Dare Sohei - Street dance, particularly ‘popping’, an umbrella term for mechanical street dances that emerged from black and brown communities of the West Coast of Turtle Island during the early 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609873683375-M3K0Y6A1Q50JJ2PMI0ZX/0-1.jpg 4th Annual Speakers - From the Deep South to Life on the Road: Defining Wildness, Seasonal Gleaning and Attempts at Reciprocity as a Lifeway (Copy) From the Deep South to Life on the Road: Defining Wildness, Seasonal Gleaning and Attempts at Reciprocity as a Lifeway Instructor Bio: Kelly Moody grew up in rural southern Virginia in tobacco and muscadine country on Occaneechi, Saponi and Meherrian traditional lands. She grew up hanging out at her grandparents' farm shelling beans and canning pickles and hanging out potting plants in tropical greenhouses at her family's hometown nursery. This past decade she spent time living simply in different landscapes studying plants, ecology, craft, writing about the land, growing food and herbs, tending on 'wild' land, or living on the road predominantly in the western so-called U.S. studying ecological connections beyond perceived regional borders. She received a B. A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and a minor in Anthropology in 2009 from Christopher Newport University focusing her research on land connection, identity and globalization. She studied herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany with Rebecca Golden in southern Vermont, Paul Strauss in southeast Ohio, Luke Learningdeer and Marc Williams in western North Carolina. She apprenticed with Juliet Blankespoor and attended the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine in 2013. She managed a farm in North Carolina for several years, studied book arts and paper-making, taught hide tanning techniques for classes held by the medieval bookbinder Jim Croft at his rural Idaho homestead for several years. Two art + activism walking residencies with Portland, Oregon based organization Signal Fire in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southwest greatly influenced the trajectory of her work. In Summer 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting on foot wild food and medicine gardens found along old Ute pathways. She has been hosting the Ground Shots Podcast for three years and writing botanical profiles from her nomadic research for six. Class Description: Firstly, I want to dig into how we define what is wild and what is not in our society today, and how this definition influences the way we see ourselves on the land, the other living beings we interact with and our sense of place. Wildness as a construct has been used to preserve or destroy, kick out or keep in. Wildness as a construct has also been a place where we look to find peace in a world that seems to will itself onto the land oppressively. What do we do with our definitions of wildness? How can we re-work and expand these definitions to better live in reciprocal relations? I will also talk about some of my own experiences tending land in different ways and what I learned from those experiences. I'll speak to growing up in the rural south on farms where settler land tending has destroyed spirits, culture and soil, and my own time organic farming trying to get at something different. And then, I'll speak to my time living on the road without sticking to a single place and foraging or intentionally tending 'wild' land nomadically. I will speak to the need for flexibility in our understanding of 'wildness' and re-thinking land tending moving forward in a world where resilience, respect and reciprocity is needed. Connect with Kelly: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com @goldenberries @groundshotspodcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609703023749-BBE691JOVWSHRS2GWZ47/21731440_1387601064627072_2119387529139158518_o.jpg 4th Annual Speakers rain crowe belongs to the croatian, polish and ukrainian people through blood ancestry & to the descendants of life through vows. she belongs to her home on the ancestral lands of the tualatin kalapuya people, and to the lifelong commitment of unsettling.she belongs to the shadow-working witches who service justice and liberation in this time of great unraveling of empire & the return to the holy wyld. she belongs to visionkeeping the village mystery school and dream temple in service of a beyond our lifetime vision.and she belongs to her forty-eight years of creaturehood, to queer-femmedom, to white-bodied anti-racists, and to working class folx and the ethos of mutual aid in which she was raised up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5643ef0ae4b00c09aadefe67/1609702958033-3P3GNXZOLLHIPNAKWI7K/0.jpg 4th Annual Speakers Teacher Bio: Mulysa Melco is an ecological landscape designer, horticulturist, and artist with a lifelong passion for plants and exploring our connection with the land. Her business, Resilience Design, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2011, plans urban and rural landscapes that help us reclaim our connection with nature and seasonal cycles. Her work aims to cultivate a sense of place, encourage land tending, help people connect to the land they live on, repair the soil, heal the water and prepare for big changes ahead. 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