PinnedA Rewilding Journey: City QuittingHello, my name is Roo Williams and this is a journal of a person from the city seeking a deeper connection to nature, and themselves. Well, not strictly from the city. I came from an ex-steelworking town in the South Wales valleys. …Rewilding4 min read
Jul 2, 2021Member-onlyA Rewilding Journey: Soil is Where it StartsI got some land, now what? — As mentioned in my post titled Workable Land, we’d planned on taking on a paddock, fortunately right next to our house. We’d had no idea it would be on offer when we went to view the house but immediately it felt exciting — we could actually do something interesting with…Rewilding7 min read
May 5, 2021Member-onlyA Rewilding Journey: Meat is Murder?A meat-eating-monster’s deer dilemma — I recently skinned and butchered a roe deer. Well actually, two of them. They were bought directly from the Welsh Government after being shot and killed by rangers as part of an annul cull. We drove to pick them up from a larder, where they’d been had been hung for…Rewilding7 min read
Apr 21, 2021Member-onlyPost Covid: Rewilding for Happiness6 Months in to the best job I’d ever had working for Twitter in NYC, I was about to spring some pretty tricky news on them. My then fiancee Lydia had just landed a new job with Nike, for which, we had to move from Brooklyn to Portland, Oregon –…Rewilding6 min read
Apr 12, 2021Member-onlyA Rewilding Journey: Breaking AwaySelf-reliance and undoing domestication — Within the supply systems we are born into we rely on money for value exchange and shops and supermarkets in which we can redeem that money for the things we need. Thanks to Covid-19 panic buying, we were blessed with a glimpse of what happens when those fail. Staple foods…Rewilding7 min read
Apr 5, 2021Member-onlyA Rewilding Journey: Workable LandRewilding… where do you start? You might start with the land. — Having grown up on a council estate and spending most of my adult life moving within and between cities, land has been a thing I have not had access to. Not that I’ve seen a place for land in my life until fairly recently. While being shown around the house…Rewilding6 min read
Jun 16, 2020Integrating Nature into Our CitiesCity life: why do we only get to connect with Nature on the weekend? — Chances are most of the things people do on the weekends involve spending money. Shopping, going to the Cinema, attending an art show. Parks are our only non-transactional spaces where someone might choose to spend time. Parks are where you can go to unwind, decompress from city life and experience…Nature2 min read