We've Moved!!! Welcome To Goldenwood =)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2023
- We've moved into our new home! We call this place Goldenwood. This brings some big changes for us -- the most important being that we'll be entering a new stage of community living, that we'll have land that we can caretake and wild-garden long term, and that the girls might finally be able to realize their dreams of having horses in their lives. Lots to share today -- thanks for being part of our adventures!
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I can't think of a more deserving family. Your new home is just the result of manifest destiny and the results of all good efforts to bring the light to those of us who love and appreciate your family. Thank you for your commitment to promoting the goodness of bringing the light to those who need it desperately in these challenging times.
Pat, those are words to cherish for our whole family. Thank you for this gift of kindness and love =)
Amen. I feel like blessings come to those of a kind heart who love and care for those around them.
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WONDERFUL FOLKS. ALL THE BEST IN YOUR NEW SPACE!
Thank you!!!!
It's always important to "create" your surrounding for yourself. Some won't understand, some will appreciate and love it.
Good words, my friend =)
You all are so very deserving of all of God's good blessings
Wow, we're glowing! =)
So happy for your family! Sometimes it is hard to accept blessings, though it is needed for balance. Enjoy, it's your turn.
Videos on wildcrafting, parenting, fitness, family, self defense moves, farming/gardening, good reads, herbal medicine, survival skills, family games, etc. Your videos are appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks my friend! Your words just made our day =)
Sir the joy in you and your family's eyes allow us all to feel the same joy. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH
That is our biggest hope, Glynn! Wow. You just made our day =)
Enjoy it! Do not let the thoughts of you not deserving it keep you from enjoying it. That is a big mistake I made years ago, I realise that now. I hope I will not make that mistake again...
Thanks for sharing that wisdom, Karin. I suppose that if our mind is dwelling on not deserving something, we can't really "be there" to enjoy it, can we? =)
So happy for you guys. Wishing you all the very best this world has to offer! 😊🙏
Wow, thank you! That means a lot to us =)
@@ReWildUniversity I wish you all the same!
I don't necessarily have an immage of you guys. I see four wonderful souls, I think four, who are doing a great deed by sharing your wisdom with the world. You deserve evey bit of happiness you have been blessed with. I thank you truly for how you've helped change my perspective in life to be more understanding and loving. May you continue to be blessed.
Yes, four indeed! And thank you -- your words mean so much to us. We smile every time we see a comment from you!
@@ReWildUniversity You are much welcome. Thank you, I'm glad I can bring joy to you. You guys are wonderful. Great to have come across you guys. Awesome work.
You've brightened my day!! Thank you for existing!
And you ours, as you so often do =)
I'm tickled pink for you.
I'm moving July 11th and it will be my easiest move ever. I'm excited.
Wow, you're moving too, Sherri! So glad to hear it will be an easy one. Share more if you would!
God is a gardener
cool
Congratulations!
This is definitely exciting as a viewer as well.
Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the garden.
Oh wow, that stove is a marvel. 🤩
I could immediately visualize an entire christmas feast cooking on it all at once.
So much stovetop room too, and those upper shelves on both sides of the chimney kinda look like they'd be excellent for keeping cooked food warm during mealtime with residual heat.
Isn't that stove amazing! You are absolutely correct -- those upper shelves are "warming shelves", and the whole upper surface can be used for putting pots on -- one side is right over the fire, so is the hottest, and then it is cooler as you move to the other side, allowing for instant shifts in heat. I can't wait to cook on it and do a video on it! =)
✨️You and your family are so beautiful ✨️
Thank you Glynn. Such kind words! =)
Congrats on a new home, you totally deserve it!
Thanks my friend! Appreciated!! =)
Great new place! In respect to your "guilt" about your good fortune, I can offer an insight from a spiritual leader I knew years ago. When one of us would express hesitation about something new that came to us, she would look a little exasperated and say "accept your good!"
I'm fascinated by your herbalist's garden.I would love to see more about what you find and how you rehabilitate it. Foraging in general I would appreciate seeing,
Anyway, best to you all. Enjoy your new opportunity!
Great advice, Neil. Thank you for sharing it! And we so appreciated your ideas about the garden and foraging. We will definitely be doing videos on both! =)
What a beautiful place 😍❤️💚
Thank you!!!!
Great news, and that oven needs to be used.
You are speaking my language! I'll do a full video on the stove once we start cooking with it -- I'm almost giddy about it, lol!
vlog sounds good! authentic, genuine! I like that you shared about the struggles of having good things in life
Thanks for that vote! So appreciated!! =)
Very beautiful place... I especially like the absence of modern noise (traffic, car alarms, cars honking, sirens, etc.)... seems very peaceful. I'm guessing from the diversity of plants and birds, it's somewhere in the midwest (??). We lived in the Missouri Ozarks for a few years before moving to our current home in Alaska. The rolling hills of the midwest are unmistakable. The thing I miss the most is the birds... here, we have eagles, owls, ravens, jays, magpies, chickadees, nuthatches, grosbeaks, redpolls and juncos. Still, nothing like the array of birds in the midwest. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, southern Wisconsin! It is indeed super diverse here -- foraging is amazing! Sounds like you have some great birds! We're far enough south here that we only see ravens once in a while -- one of the things I miss about being up north where they were constant companions =) Thanks for your fun comment!
@@ReWildUniversity Up north? Were you in Alaska for a time? Yes, the ravens are one of the best things about being here. I do love them...
Ha! "Up north" is certainly relative, isn't it? No, just northern Wisconsin, which despite being not that far north, was a very different environment from where we now live in southern Wisconsin.
Nice video. I would like to see more videos of hunting foraging and wild animal incounters
Awesome! Noted!! =)
Thanks!
Pat, THANK YOU!!! So grateful!! =)
You can share a little fast forward bits on the garden clean out and definitely keep showing us your foraging and cooking and everything you have been doing. I guess show us your wonder and curiosities. You are always fun to watch. Sky is the limit! 🎉
So encouraging, and such good ideas! Thanks Kristie!!! =)
Hi all
Very nice place. While watching, I'd occasionally glance out my own window at the hummingbird at the feeder, and the lush profusion of greenery, some already here when I moved in, and some that I planted. I might have already told you how I 'rewilded' my city house into a food jungle? The idea of abundance and plenty in a world of engineered scarcity is definitely a real thing, but our personal choices can create safe spaces for not only ourselves, but of course the plants and critters that are eager to move into our little havens! Discovering, growing WITH, and continually learning and growing WITH this magical synergy is to me the very essence of what the Great Book of Life is trying to teach us all.
I've spent many years researching and studying the relationships and micro-climate requirements of plants, and the 'companion plant' thingy. Whoever had that place before you was obviously also very into this area of lore. Anyone can just go out and plant a diversity of flora, but not very many of those plants will be there very long even if tended, if they are not only in a congenial place, but in convivial groupings, or with the proper space around them. LOTS to know and learn about, and I'd love to hear just about everything you can show in this regard. Like I said, those plants ARE in 'community' already, or they would not have done so well. Ya see, even I that already know all things have found it difficult to come across reliable information on companion planting and long term garden viability. Long term success/survival speaks VOLUMES, as does that land in your house area. Was that comfrey behind you in the later part of your video?
Anyways, it was great to see a place where my own skill level is modest by comparison. Such interests are not really all that common, but quite a few people have told me they are inspired by my yard ideas, and over the last 15 years or so, I've seen a lot of 'emulation' of my land-use technique here in Davis. As we grow together and relearn lost Earth Wisdoms, more will follow and branch out in the countless permutations that are daily building and recreating the diversity and natural resilience and abundance that our lives and communities and our World is sooo ready to receive again. So no worries Rebecca. I that know all things have cried quite a lot over the last few years, and I know why you cry. One of our ultimate forms of expression that is truly true to our inner selves that goes light years beyond anything else I can think of. If more people COULD cry, our world would be well on its way...
My own dream is to see our safe spaces of rewilded lands meet and interconnect. Ironically, the severe drought of the last 10+ years here in California has greatly reduced the tired old suburban grass/trees/shrubbery landscapes, and encouraged folks to experiment with yardscapes more like mine with sustainable, edible motifs. Gotta love it! Reminds me of a line from Alan Parson's Project: "Step by step, move a little closer to me. Step by step take it line by line. Step by step move a little closer to me. Step by step you're doing fine".
Remember my very first SUPER LONG email to you in response to your ancient video on that Television offer you got? Where I begged and pleaded with you to take the job because we sooo desperately need some real and genuine bushcraft/survival/rewilding know-how disseminated to the general public? And explained how it would financially enable you to buy a giant sized land parcel and rewild it, and you patiently explained that the video was FOUR YEARS OLD already? Must have got a good laugh out of that one, huh? Well, your karma seems to have leap-frogged you past that, and Good Old Mamma Nature chosen you to care-take and expand this already existing space. A GIANT trust has been placed with you. I look forward to being a part of this, our extended community project!!!!
BTW, Ana is very interested in gardening, and is sort of taking over a lot of where I 'left-off' in my own projects. Forest LOVES to help out in these doings.
Peace, Love, and Respects, John, Ana, and Little Forest
Hi Friends! So exciting that Ana has that interest in gardening. What you've started there is not just inspiring -- it's an educational resource that can help others to look differently at what used to be a "lawn". I love that the drought is having that unforeseen effect of having people question the wisdom of monoculture lawns.
Ha! I do remember that long ago email! The beginning of many great nuggets of wisdom and thoughtfulness shared back and forth =)
Love to you all!
Kenton
Thank you for sharing this wonderful and exciting look into your lives! Deserve is one of those words I truly dislike. We tend to accept that we deserve "bad" things but have trouble accepting the "good" things. You've spoken about this place before and I think everyone's, especially Rebecca's reaction really shows how magical and precious this is for you. I personally would love to see more foraging to eating. Identifying wild edibles is a good start but it's only a small portion of the task. Love you all! 💚💚💚💚
Daniel, thanks for that video suggestion! That's a video type we've been really excited to experiment with, so it's fun to hear that so many people would appreciate those forage-to-table vids! =) Sending you love!!!
Wow!! What a beautiful home! And a beautiful family.
Thank you for your beautiful words, Sarah!! =)
🐴🏇🐎🐎🐎🌿
Now THAT is a language our girls can understand!!! =)
Congratulations my friends 🎊 It's so beautiful. I love that Amish cookstove.
We're so excited about it!! =)
OMG I am so So, SO HAPPY for you and your family!! Can't wait to see what's next! Always a fan no matter what your content is!! Free style it!!❤
Oh Zanni, thank you so much! We so treasure your presence here. Thanks for that encouragement -- free style sounds awesome =)
Whoa, what an incredibly exciting journey! Couldn't stop smiling for a whole video and I can really feel the emotion and possibility being expressed through you - So thrilled for you "hominins"! 🤣🤣
All jokes aside... you are such givers it's only natural that abundance goes both ways! Can't wait to see more of the adventure unfold. All of life is an adventure and we always get that feeling reinforced with we watch your videos or connect with you.... one of our favorite things! When you asked about what types of content we might like to see more of, I'd say all of the above on your examples as nothing stood out immediately. That was until you mentioned cooking when I realized actually I would really love to learn the process on a few of your favorite recipes or what you do with some of the foraged items even; you are such great chefs! I was thinking that a few videos back about the horta. You could do a video showing the whole process from ID to foraging to preparation of really any dish that stands out to you. That would selfishly make it easy for us to try. 😁 That and I would say don't discount your bushcraft videos either. I think you have a very unique perspective and often do share skills I don't run across elsewhere, or even in the case of it being elsewhere, from a very different and helpful perspective. I just enjoy all the other content as well. It's easier as kids get older and can more fully consent to how much of a families life they want to open about and the timing of all this for you guys just seems so perfect! Thanks for sharing with us virtual family!!! ❤
Drew, thanks for all of this! I've been getting kind of excited about doing some cooking (forage to plate) videos, so you are seriously encouraging me here =)
I'm very, very happy that you're giving this a go. You deserve it. Truly.
I've loved your parenting talks. Any time you get particularly philosophical, or just take a thoughtful approach to something, I'm emphatically interested. I'm also quite interested in seeing cooking content, too - I watch a lot of cooking content, heh. But honestly, I'm interested in anything you guys do, so ultimately you don't need to take me into account - I watch everything you guys (human units, sorry) put up, haha.
It's been wonderful engaging with you. You're opening up the scope of your channel at the perfect time.
Jacob, your words made us laugh and made us GLOW! What a gift that every time we make a video we know you'll be enjoying it. You should see our smiles right now =)
You are such a beautiful lovely family. I'm so happy for your new adventure
Thank you! We so appreciate your words =)
We already ARE the change the world wishes itself for us.
i moved too. from the city to a village. the neigbors call it sudenBurg. "South-Castle"
it´s not fancy. but it got new windows, new heating system and every flat is getting renovated. it´s affordable and we start a garden for vegetables. some already exist and we got so much space!
im courious what other people will come here to have a fresh start and to make some projects. like gardening, music, cooking, art, woodwork, what ever!
we wanna open a café too!
This is awesome! A garden, and a space for people to come and celebrate their skills and talents. Even a cafe? Wow!! We can't wait to hear more as this unfolds for you! =)
Good I'm glad you got something so special for you and family congrats guys thays stunning Kenton nice brother now you can relax 🎉
Tom, thanks so much. We're all feeling such appreciation for your words!
@@ReWildUniversity my friend always have kind words for you and your family I'm so happy you and your wife forgot her name sorry have a place to kick back and the kids have their space fantasic
Tom, no problem -- names are difficult for me as well! Her name is Rebecca. She, on the other hand, has a knack for names -- she used to teach dance classes, and I remember one time she had 14 new students. She had them all introduce themselves, then she promptly went around the circle and named each person. And I can hardly remember one sometimes!!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity LMAO I know Mike
This looks amazing you guys! So happy for you ❤
Thank you friend! We're sending your whole family love =)
When I was a kid we moved from a duplex to around the corner in a house. I discovered the close moves are the hardest. It’s non-stop little moves instead of just one big one. You actually are working harder. 😂
Congratulations on your new place. 🥰
You guys do deserve a special place❤❤❤
You know it! We were excited, thinking this move would be easy since we had a month to do it and could do it little by little. Much tougher than our other ones where you just bite the bullet and just do it all at once!! =)
Your place is beyond what I expected when you referred to it as a “dream”. It’s remarkable!!
I love this channel and I feel like the content is unique and wholesome. I’d love to know more about you as people and of course - wild food.
You all are so lucky!!! Really a dream without exaggeration.
Wow, every time we hear from you we feel like we're soaring in the clouds! You have a real positivity about you. Thank you for sharing it with us!! =)
It’s beautiful ✌
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Best wishes in your beautiful new home 😊. It really needed a woman’s touch and I know you will make it so homey and loving 🥰
Now, if I were going to request video content I do love cooking videos and I know your other housemate is an excellent cook. I would especially like to see more content including him….but maybe I’m biased and I know he is a little shy ☺️
Oh Cheryl, what a treasure to hear from you here!!! Oh yes, we'd love to include him more -- you should see him with the girls -- he is like an uncle to them, always so creatively engaging with them in ways that are both fun and educational at the same time. We're so grateful for him =)
And his cooking!!! Mirabelle practically begs for his gumbo! We know you're so proud of him -- and we are so grateful that he shares his life with us.
Sending you love and huge hugs from all of us!
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Congrats. I’d like to see your wild / semi-wild food gardening work, as my family is experimenting with similar concepts on our homestead.
Absolutely, Alexander. So glad to hear that you're experimenting with this as well! =)
Wow! Your realm is like a fairytale! I'm so happy for you all! I would love to learn about the aerial yoga! Any tips, tricks, strength building exercises, and what is the best way to install the equipment? I've always wanted to try aerial movement! Thank you for sharing your positivity! 🩵🌻
It does feel so magical! Aerial yoga! The girls would probably jump on a chance to share some info about that. Great idea! Putting it on our ideas list! =)
Your family is so sweet and real. You are abundantly blessed and deserving of this. ❤
Thank you Karen. We can feel your love from here =)
Buongiorno! Even a small move is a heck of an endeavor, but it's a good time to review everything you own and filter what you could get rid of or better organize everything. I get the not deserving thing, it's been a lifelong struggle for me, at the same time, I know God wants the best of things for us. All the beautiful nature is evidence of that. Awwwww Rebecca, I'm glad you two share your life and family with us, it's been really nice getting to know you guys. Wingedy 🐉 hugs for all of y'all.
Pretty piece of land and will say I do like the natural woodwork and stonework of the house itself. Always nice to see more natural looking architecture. Wild gardening, that's an interesting idea. If you plant things that do well in y'all's type of environment, it probably would grow like mad. Then it's just a matter of harvesting on occsaion. Shoot if y'all can do canning, then you could be pretty self-sustainable through the winter even. Those mushrooms look yummy. Wonder how they would be in spaghetti or a dish like that.
Worst case if you go downstairs and forget something, you'll get plenty of exercise hehe. Kenton could bench 250 and still say he's "weak" 🤣🤣 I think it's cool idea of have a large scope of land where a few families set up homes on it and kind of equally share the property. With that, you can sculpt who your neighbors are and get folks around who're of like mind and values. Also, if you have folks around of different skills, then you have most all the skills you need on the property, growing food, fixing things, building things, etc.
I do like the idea of doing vids where you guys say... like the soup you had... part of the vid out in the wild getting the mushrooms or other wild ingredients + whatever else you may add to it, then see the making of the food you make with it. I do like the meal ideas, but seeing how it's actually prepped because folks like myself're not chefs. Honestly, I just like watching y'all in general, you're a cool and plumb nice family.
Dear Friend, we could feel so much warmth in your words. Since you first connected with us you've added so much kindness, magic, and wisdom to our lives. It feels like you really SEE us =) Thank you for the vote for forage-to-table videos -- I'm excited about those!
@@ReWildUniversity Awwww Kenton... *blush* You are testing how Smaugishly crimson a jade-scaled one's earfins can become with such kindness of your own. Although we're a good ~1200mi from each other, I feel like I've gotten to know y'all quite a bit, and try to give little tidbits of myself back to you. It's nice to be part of the Rewild family so to speak. I see all the hurt, violence and brokenness in various parts the world; it's nice to come here and be with a nice family, the soothing forest and the wild birdies talking to us. May the Lord continue to bless all of you, that y'all may be a blessing to many out here on the internet. Y'all encourage and help many lives out there if you know it or not.
Thank you for your video.
I'm glad to see things are working out for you and yours.
I'm off to the local stores to stock up on Butter. I used to have $100 stashed for when butter was on sale for $3 a lb and then stock up, .. and now the regular price is $7.50 a lb, ... so I'm off to get thirty lbs at $4.50 a lb.
I have a small freezer just for Butter, Chocolate Chips, and comfort foods. I'll have to dig out the all Butter and put the new stuff on the bottom of the pile. Always a chore that one since I insist on keeping a years supply frozen.
Keep up the great work and good luck.
Oh yeah, and Win/Win.
Oh goodness, that sounds like a great supply of butter! Great to stock up. Thanks for your words, too. Appreciated!!
Wow,cool opportunity congratulations ! ! ! You do have your work cut out for you with 50 acres .I figure you're 3 moves from the West Coast now.
Oh yes -- lots of work ahead of us, especially with the diverse ecosystems. Down by the stream we're planning on planting lowland plants, prairie plants on the ridgetop, and a few different forest types, not to mention the house gardens. Whew!!! =)
A book on wild foraging? Love your videos and wish you all much happiness in this new location it looks magical!
Nice idea!! And thanks for those lovely, encouraging words. We are holding them close =)
I'd love to see some cooking videos with what you forage!
Fun! We'll make it happen!! =)
Congratulations on your move! Enjoy!
Immediately when I saw the cook stove, it reminded me of the one we lived with growing up. It sure was a nice source of supplemental heat in the winter and bath towels that had been in the warming oven a while felt sooooo good to wrap up in when getting out of the tub in a drafty old farmhouse. It didn't get used nearly as much in the summer. Foraging and plant identifying videos would be great. The girls and their adventures and the crafts they are learning have also been favorite videos.
Looking forward to many adventures as you settle in.
Love to all of you!
Glad that stove could bring back memories! We're hoping to forge some for the girls as we start using it this fall. Just imagining those towels . . . yum!!! Must have felt so good!
Thanks for the input on what you enjoy video-wise -- the girls will be pretty flattered to hear what you said! =)
You have a beautiful home. It matches your family
Thank you! The first time we walked in we were pretty amazed -- it FELT right. The wood, the stone, and such beautiful land right out the door in all directions. It did indeed feel like a fairy tale place. And amazingly, now we're living here!
I’m relatively new to your journey but I’ve already benefited and look forward to more.
Your home and land are wonderful, and I’m truly happy for you to be there
Steve, we're so glad to have you here with us! We are looking forward to more from you as well -- it will be fun to connect more through these comments =)
The Mansion, garden and surrounding landscape looks and feels gorgeous, I'm so happy for you guys!
I can't wait for you to share more of your adventure, if I had to say what I'm particularly interested in, it'd be gardening, animal flow or whatever movement practices you're exercising (even the type of yoga ofc), and how could I not mention cooking hehe. Although I have to add, I love everything you guys make and just following along, the human experience where we're all trying to figure stuff out is the most legit and resonates the most so I wouldn't worry about specific content, I can vouch most people following you love the day to day life of folk trying to live a more natural life
I wish you the best of luck integrating in the new environment and I'm sending you much love
Dany, thanks for all of those great suggestions and the encouragement! Glad you're excited about cooking stuff -- I've been really wanting to do some videos that are forage-to-table =)
Nice place! When next-door in wich direction did you move? Since I sent you that knife I've been spying on you on Google maps satellite view.
Ha! First place directly northwest!
Super inspiring. We have kids around your kids age and have dreamed of doing something similar. May I ask, is goldenwood in WI? Thanks so much for taking the time to share your vision and all that you are grateful for.
Yes, Wisconsin! We hope that you and your kids can realize that dream! =)
Very inspirational as always! Very resonant point about just enjoying things without thinking whether you deserve them.. It's hard to expand your 'enjoyment sphere' size, but things like your new living environment sure can help :)
You seem to be on such a stable base, so centered that any experiment in your life seems just fun.
Some of the things I take away from your channel are the ways of parenting and try to apply them in raising my daughter. I wouldn't want to wish to disturb the harmony of your family, so if you've already worked through it and are willing to share, It'd be interesting to hear examples of conflicts with or related to your children and how you managed to resolve them, thank you!
We so appreciate that suggestion! We're putting your idea in our potential video queue! =)
Congratulations on your new place it looks beautiful wish you guys the best enjoy all your content I have one question have you ever did a video on your work out routine if you haven’t that would be great to see. Thanks stay wild.
Todd, I'll consider doing an updated one! Until then, here are a couple I've done in the past -- ruclips.net/video/a9nnOcRXqXQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/j2Jji8boZQI/видео.html
@@ReWildUniversity thanks man I appreciate your gentle spirit
Omg, Omg, OMG! CONGRATULATIONS! Your new home is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! It's my dream! You are living in my dream home, on my dream property! I CAN NOT WAIT to escape Denver. I was brought to tears when I first started watching, but when your lovely wife started crying, I was forced to go get a Kleenex. What state are you in? I would be barefoot ALL the time here! You offer courses and programs??!! I NEED more info please! You all are everything I wish to be, but don't know how to do. People think I'm weird for growing dandelions on purpose to eat. I'm fine with people thinking I'm weird. Ok, I might struggle with eating roadkill... God bless your old home Hawaii, what has (really) happened there is appalling to the Nth degree. Until I can discover my escape route from my current reality, I will take hope and most definitely inspiration from what you offer us online. HA! Your wife is Rebecca! I am a Becky. THANK YOU for being a blessing for my mindset! And THANK YOU for taking care of God's good green Earth, I can't thank you enough for that! You are asking what we'd like more of? Everything! Parenting tips? Yes! Cooking? Yes! How to keep positive when you're trapped in a city? Yes! Kids being kids? Yes! How to use plants medicinally? Yes! Survival tips? Yes! And thank you for your humor! It's good medicine!
Becky, ever since you arrived at our channel we have twice as much fun reading comments. Your sincerity and love and wonder for life shines through your words! And how amazing with the Becky/Rebecca and the Lillee/Lily!
We can't wait for you to get out of Denver and on to a new reality! Yes, we offer programs, and we'd be happy to gift you one of our video courses that might be helpful. Write to us through our website at rewildu.com if you like and let's connect!
With Love,
KaRaMaL =)
Oh my Goodness! THANK YOU so much!!! I would LOVE a video class and that is very generous, I sincerely appreciate this gift! I most definitely will reach out!@@ReWildUniversity
What does the sign mean above the front door? Thanks for the video😄
Great perception! Wow! That says "Goldenwood", the placename we gave to our new home. It's in our version of an Elvish writing that Tolkien created =)
I'm so happy for y'all. It looks so wonderful and you DO deserve it.
Makes me want an Amish cookstove myself.
Btw does Mirabelle have some kind of horse fund people can donate to?
Thank you!!! Oh, we are SO excited about that Amish stove. I'll be sure to do a video on it this winter.
And thank you for that thoughtfulness! We've been trying to construct a page on our website where people can contribute, but it's not yet up. However, the contributions will route from that page to a paypal account we set up for it at rewilduniversity@gmail.com, so if you want to contribute early to their horse fund, feel free to send to that email through paypal!
With love,
Kenton =)
How did you pay for your property?What kind of jobs did you have to get where you are?
Peg, we don't own this place -- we are renting from a dear friend. Our job history is super diverse -- we have done everything from working in factories to being the Directors of Entertainment for a Renaissance Festival. But at this point, our jobs are just our RUclips channel, our writing, and a small amount of one-on-one teaching that I do creating custom wilderness skills/martial arts/mindfulness programs for clients. We have a pretty low income, actually, but because we don't have things like TV subscriptions, a fancy car, etc., and because we get so much of our food from foraging and from friends who have small farms, our expenditures are quite low compared to most people.
My guy what is your workout routine?
Mostly martial arts, but some animal movement, calisthenics, and just having fun doing things like tree climbing or running around =) Touch of weights, but not a whole lot.
Why we tend to always "feel like we have to do or achive something"?
why can´t we just relax more? The earth provides everything we need.
when your fridge is full, why you still work so hard?
Yes. Rebecca and I definitely suffer from that . . . not enough BEING time. This place is helping, because there are so many beautiful moments that unfold. Just this morning a red-headed woodpecker came to one of the feeders -- the first one we've seen on the land! It was pretty exciting and fulfilling just to see that beautiful gentleman eating sunflower seeds . . . =)
@@ReWildUniversity i was getting food from supermarkted trash can. it seemed the sunflowers got bigger in just 2 hours. i saw a hedshock. i see wild animals like every day here. Even foxes and a Badger.
One day you will realize your future lies in Canada 🇨🇦👍
We've actually thought of that from time to time -- seems like you have endless wild places up there!!
@@ReWildUniversity we do and you walk around the cities feeling unthreatened so it’s great to live. Winter’s long but so was yours! If you ever visit let me know. We are off grid in Ontario
That would be amazing to visit someday! We're actually not too far from each other, considering!
Aren't you vegan? So please don't touch wild animals, even it's so much fun for you. For the animals it isn't. And please consider about your horse-idea :(
Hi Friend! We're definitely not vegan, and hope that we can have mutual respect between us even though we may disagree on some things =) I love veganism because it is based on kindness and compassion, which is SO needed in the world. At the same time, our family is devoted to connecting people with nature, and for kids especially, we see it as essential that kids get right in there and touch things, explore, look under logs -- things that may indeed be disruptive to the animals and plants living there, but that foster curiosity and wonder. My fear is that if we have a "don't touch" policy, humans will forget what it is to connect with nature, and it might actually backfire -- at least in families we've seen who have more of a "don't touch" attitude, the kids gravitate toward screens instead of nature.
Liliana spent about five hours yesterday trying to nurse a butterfly who had been hit by a car. It was a hopeless task from the beginning, but she removed it from the road and protected it from birds, giving it water and fruit if it wanted to eat. She loves all things that crawl or fly or gallop, and wants to both care for them and be close to them.
I think when we allow a disconnect, then people can start to believe that they are being kind to nature when they really aren't. For instance, our family tries to source our food very carefully. With vegetables, we realize that if we buy conventional, or even organic vegetables, that those vegetables come from fields that used to be prairie or woodland -- that vegetable might feel harmless to eat, but in truth thousands and thousands of animals, insects, snakes, and birds were displaced and killed in order to make the monoculture fields that produce those vegetables. So we try to source as much of our food as we can from small family farms where we know the people are growing food as best they can in balance with nature.
When eating plants, we also try to remember that just as some people might suggest that a cow or a bug's consciousness is qualitatively less than a humans', and thus we can just treat them however we want to, that same reasoning is used to treat plants badly. As more research suggests that plants may have their own kind of "consciousness" (probably vastly different than anything we can imagine, but perhaps no less important than ours?), we think it's important to think of plants just as we think of animals -- as living beings who are worthy of our respect and love.
In my view, we are constantly killing in order to live. Drive a car a few miles, and you will kill hundreds or thousands of insects, and very likely a bird or a few small mammals. We usually ignore this, but if we realize that driving kills so many, perhaps we will weigh differently our decision about whether a drive feels important enough. Indeed, if we're on a screen of any kind -- a computer or smart phone -- we have directly contributed to the killing of countless beings, because the mining, the factories, the roads used to transport our goods -- all of these things required the destruction of countless homes and lives of different beings.
So we realize that we are killers. Constant killers. And knowing that we are, we can connect more deeply with nature, because we realize that other animals and plants are doing the same thing -- killing things in order to live. We humans can see that as horrible, or we can see it as a beautiful process that connects us all. Each of us, too, will get to someday be killed, often by a bacteria or virus, and will get to feed other beings with our own flesh.
As for horses, horses often love human connection. The other day we walked out into a vast field where six horses lived. They ran over to us in a herd and were a little pushy trying to get close so they could get scratched, breath into our faces (a way they connect), and just be by us. They wouldn't leave us alone! Animals often love connection with humans, and horse connection, if done without violence, is one of the most amazing animal/human connections you can experience. We can never know what is in another person's mind, not to mention in another animal's mind, but from the actions of the horses, there was definitely the suggestion that connecting with us was much more interesting than anything else they were doing, and they had a VAST field to roam with hills and trees and a stream and woods -- we walked and walked but didn't even come near seeing the other side. A hint that these horses appreciate the connection?
The snake that Liliana caught was obviously scared, but again, we can't know the mind of an animal. Many of my scariest experiences have also become my favorite memories. I imagine that if a huge dragon picked me up and flew me up to the clouds, I'd be terrified. But when it deposited me back on the ground, I'd run to my family and tell them about the amazing experience I had. Perhaps the snake was just traumatized. Perhaps it went back and told its buddies about the dragon that picked it up (and, incidentally, removed it from the road where it likely might have been run over by a car) and remembers it as the most amazing experience of his life. We don't know -- but for me, I tend to think that through touching, exploring, and being as intimate as possible with nature, we develop a sense of realizing how much we are harming, rather than learning to ignore the harm we do (which is when humans can start to do large-scale harm, like monoculture farming).
Just some thoughts -- thank you for trying to live as kindly and compassionately as you can!
With love,
Kenton =)
@@ReWildUniversity Damn, you explained that in a way that's hard to refute in any manner! And although not quite at your level, I agree with all you mentioned. You have a beautiful family, a heart of gold, and you'll do well wherever you end up living. Wished I was physically in your community, lol.
The way I percieve the snake interaction is that the snake was in a state of ecstatic joy, blissed out that humans chose to play with her on that day. All animals are very fluent in the language of energy, this includes intention and feelings. If you study the work of animal communicators such as one of my favorites, Anna Breytenbach, you will learn that all animals have great respect and love for humans, and they can tell very easily which humans are friends and which are not. There are a few videos about Anna and her work on youtube, one of my favorites is "The incredible story of how leopard Diabolo became Spirit - Anna Breytenbach, "animal communicator". It is a 13 min. video and shows a good example of just how well animals know humans that eminate love, and those that don't. I believe that when we sincerely love animals, honor them and express gratitude for the nourishment that they bring to our bodies when we eat them providing vibrancy and health, that they gladly give there life for that purpose and it even brings them fulfillment. Native Americans and other indigenous peoples understood this long ago, it is only our modern society that has lost contact with this wisdom. But many, like Kenton, are trying to bring back this wisdom and I for one express my gratitude for those efforts.