Gothic Foraging, Wildsteading, and Natural Healing

If we are going to Wildstead and Rewild, then we need to incorporate this into every part of our lives, for it is a mindset, a worldview, and a way of being.  As such, it will echo into how we dwell upon the land, how we live, and how we interact with the place we shelter.  While some have the freedom to strike out in temporary shelters, traveling nomadic in sheep/dog/horse-pulled wagons, many of us still live semi-permanently on land we rent, "own", and/or wildstead on.  Others are still renting in more urban settings.  Where ever we are, rewilding can be at "home". Are we living in a way that is not tearing up the land more? Are we learning to make, cook, and store food in a way that is better for us and the wildlands? Are we dressing in a way more natural and not creating more waist? Are we making natural make-up, soaps, and lotions? What are we using for furnishings - are they handmade, repurposed antiques, or reused finds?   Are we rethinking how we si...

What is a Wildstead?   The simplest explanation is a Wildstead is a Wilderness Homestead, which uses rewilding techniques to live in balance and harmony with the land. It is an integration of food forests, rewilding gardens, and no-till gardens, using native and naturalized plants to sustain one long term. A wildstead is a dwelling in the wild shadowlands where a rewilder dwells in balance with the wild shadowlands and the seasons around them. Why Wildstead instead of just Homestead? A wildstead works with the land, the seasons, the animals, and the people to create an integrated, balanced dwelling for both rewilders and the creatures native to the area.  It respects the Native inhabitants of the land while seeking as displaced refugees of colonialism, to become as naturalized to the land as possible, without uncalled-for appropriations.  Homesteading has a tainted history, sadly interwoven with Native removal acts and colonialism.   Begun in the 1860s...