About Wildroots

From Wildroots

Welcome to our new site, please be patient as we put the finishing touches (and pictures) in place.

You can still view our old page (with pictures) at http://www.wildroots.org/index.php

Spring 2008 Wild Foods Hike April 5-7

Call for submissions for a new publication: Uncivilized: A Journal of Feral Living

Wildroots is a 30-acre homestead adjacent to the Pisgah NF in Madison County, Western NC. (about 45 minutes from Asheville). Our focus is on experiential learning and living, while practicing, developing and sharing skills for rewilding and reconnection.

At Wildroots, we live off the grid, carry our water, and practice "earthskills", or earth-based lifeways. Our interests include permaculture, gardening by the moon, natural and primitive shelter building, hide tanning, herbal medicine, nature crafts, and wild food foraging. These skills are rapidly falling into disuse in our throwaway culture, but we see them as crucial to our future survival, and we intend to help keep them alive. Some of these skills are as old as the human species itself. The surest way to protect earth based lifeways, or "earthskills", is to practice them, and pass them along as we move through this alienated modern life. Just as we can propagate endangered native plants in the ecosystems from which they have been displaced, or re-introduce wolves into areas from which they have been extirpated, we can reclaim our species' lost knowledge of living with the earth.

We are looking for long-term collective members, especially folks who have experience with cooperative, primitive living and/or radical homesteading. We're also open to visitors and short-term residents (who don't mind winter camping in the mountains!).

We encourage guests and potential longer-term visitors to get in touch with us. New folks bring a diversity of energy and personality to our community. Guests should be fairly independent and capable of taking care of themselves, and should have some camping experience. Living without modern conveniences (power, plumbing, etc) can be challenging, but also rewarding, so guests should prepare themselves mentally for that. One thought we've had is that we would really benefit from a diversity of ages in our community, so we're particularly encouraging families with children and elders to visit. Please email us for details and directions - wildroots@riseup.net

We hold events at the land from time to time, so keep an eye on our calendar, or get on our mailing list to keep updated by sending an email to wildroots-subscribe@lists.riseup.net