The Wildland today occupies the ancient, modern, and future home of the Monacan People and acknowledges and honors the ancestral lands of this living Earth.
kincentric rewilding
Rewilding Relationship
Conventional rewilding is about letting go. It is about stepping back and letting nature run its course.
At The Wildland, we are challenging what it means to be human in the modern world and, instead of stepping back, we are stepping into a kincentric relationship with our cousins, the Land and her animals.
kincentric rewilding
Let's Cut the Crap
No feedlots. No antibiotics. No hormones. No grains. No preservatives. No herbicides. No pesticides. No cover-crops. No vaccinations. No castration. No fungicides. No separation or weaning. No plastic. No spot-spraying weeds. No fertilizers. No dewormers. No forced breeding.
Free to roam hundreds of acres at a time. Only nature ... only pasture and forest from birth through life to death.
What is Kincentric Rewilding?
Kincentric is a combination of words. Kin- as kinship and -centric and concentric. It is relation in a cirlce.
Rewilding is in vogue today.
It is understood as a progressive approach to conservation. But it leaves ecoligcal and social justice at the gate, beyond its game fences. It understands Earth not as our shared Mother but a damsel in destress who just needs humans, her estranged child, to get out of the way.
To heal the rivers, we buy beavers. To heal the beavers, we buy the rivers. To heal the grasslands, we bring in ancient breeds of cattle (or Bison) that look wilder than the ones we have today. But these ancient bovines bawl like everyone else and come in modern trailers and they come ready to be told where to go.
Kincentric Rewilding is an invitation.
It is not something we do or create. Wildness is the autonomous acceptance of the basic conditions as they are. She is presentness.
Wildness is relationship in a circle, it is who we become when we accept life as it is and not push for life as it could be. Wildness is found in the present and the autonomous acceptance of the magic that is here, in this moment, waiting for us.
Kincentric Rewilding is an invitation back to this presentness, this curiosity. It is running with the land, as the land.
In this way, Kincentric Rewilding is also the forgoing the visions we
have—regardless of our desires.
Kincentric Rewilding is a relational land ethic of letting go but not stepping back, of rewilding ourselves with the land, as an energetic and increasingly singular body. It is an ongoing act of co-creation and life being fully and deeply lived.
