I think you get it! By fostering similiar intentions in different places but at the same time, we are building different kinds of connections.

Are there people you can think of now who would take this journey with you?

A few commited people is all it takes to create a framework for even the most 'noob' of outdoors people to plug in and experience the richness of mother nature.

By raising consciousness of the possibilities of rewilding oneself, all over the internet at the same time on the same days, in diffuse rather than central locations, we accomplis something new that hasn't been accomplished before. One group goes one way, another group goes another, and in between on session and another, we learn what was learned at all of the events. Through videography and photography and blogs and forum posts, and wikis, we're all thinking rewilding globally, but acting locally.

It is hard on a person's finances and conscience to 'rewild' globally, as it creates a large travel footprint, and encourages us to meld with an unfamiliar landbase.

I would like to see other people come into this thing and flesh out more of what it could be, right now, these are the basic guiding principles I see:

- Wild and home-grown food be the central focus on the event

- The opening up of our spiritual selves to a familiar people and a familiar land

- Moving beyond survival skills and learning skills that sustain

- Shifting focus from being with the global village physically and moving that into a temporal relatinoshi (doing similiiar but different things in different places at the same time).

- Focusing in on our inner rhizomatic tendencies.

- Finding a way to bring as many people in at the beginning as possible

Tony,

I like your idea, and I think that we can and should support multiple events.  Different lands have different resources and methods of gathering and surviving.  I too have been thinking a lot about food procurement in recent days, and having this be the focus in different locations would work (well, at least it would work for me as well).

As for me, I'd be willing to host a gathering for the pacific northwest.  This could either be in may, or perhaps later in August (better chance of beautiful weather).  I think I could handle and likely feed as many as 30 people for the event just with local foodstuffs.  My cabin is largeish and  I have many extra beds and couches, and the land is perfect for tenting as well, weather permitting.  

I would love to do this, and share my resources and hospitality with all who would like to get together in my area.  There is so much to do and see here, that I doubt a weekend will be sufficient to convey everything: but it is an excellent opportunity to try, and a good place to start.  I would love to plan events centered around fruits of the sea: clams, mussels and seaweed harvesting.  Fishing, and hunting/tracking would be quite possible too.  Additionally, over 1000 harbor seals calve on my island, although by late summer they should all be at sea along with the nesting shorebirds.

I would like to invite anyone who is interested to contact me, and we can see about getting something started, either at my place or anywhere else for this weekend.  How exciting!

Dom 

That's excellent Dom!

I would encourage you to plan your event on one of the 'free days' for two reasons. one, to increase the available audience, and two, as a local counter to whatever else is going on. Within the gourps, with privacy conerns noted, I believe taking something like this to our local media and billing them as alternative events could reward us with new connetions and relationships... all finer details for later dates.

What I feel is important is that people sch as yourself step up to the plate and offer your home and landbase as sanctuary.

Be wary! Do not take this task alone. Not everyone has an analog to your resources, Dom, and more home-grown food will outweght the local wild food supply. Even a small core of people who have other small cores they can bring in will make an event much stronger than if hosted by one person alone.

What I didn't include and will go back to add is the possibility of setting up a conference call with people who have loud-ass cellphones such as myself between the other groups who are camping simultaneously, giving us an additional linkage never before had at these types of gatherings.

Hi!  I offered my home and landbase a couple years ago...offer still stands.

Come on down.  

Hopefully those in your area could make it. I personally would like to rotate around and see all the different lands people are working with. Do you have any relationships with the Houstson Ishmael people? They were great, and so was William, from Dallas. Talk amongst yourselves and see what happens!

Tony

I don't know them except through the mailing list...I don't get out much!

That's ok, neither do I!