Rainwalk Rewild

05/04/2025

Rainwalk Rewild gets Mike's Midday Munchies from Crumbl Cookies and Indulge Bakery !
Have fun kids!!

04/08/2025

A newly discovered plant species doesn't photosynthesize. It uses mushrooms for nutrition!

Learn more:

Researchers found Thismia aliasii, a rare forest plant in Malaysia that glows and feeds on fungi instead of sunlight.

04/06/2025

This was shared in our apprenticeship group this morning. I had to share it here for everyone to read.

Foraging is an act of resistance. Enjoy.

Keep foraging. Teach your friends about the plants in their yard. Go for a walk and grab a handful of greens. Say thank you thank you thank you.

On Italian-American Foodways, Anarchism, & Assimilation by Wren Awry Zine #38 — February 2025 The Dandelion Gatherers is a historical exploration of Italian American foodways, anarchism, and assimilation through folklore, newspaper stories, and accounts of women who gathered dandelion

02/07/2025

Here's some photos from our Intro To Friction Fire Workshop from last weekend. We love teaching primitive skills and building community with rad folks!

If you wanna join us, take a peek at one of our Upcoming Field Courses this year:
Rainwalkrewild.com/field-courses

02/02/2025

Bippity boppity bow drill 🔥

This is the most confident I've ever felt busting a coal. The second I bowed out my starter coal, I knew it was going to be a success. My bow string felt just tight enough. The spindle was excellent. Carving my notch was perfect (for me). Everything just lined up.

We like to say practice makes permanent. If you want to get good at something hard, make it a part of your daily life. Make it a ritual.

Would you take a 30 day bow drill challenge?

Doesn't mean you have to bust a coal every single day for 30 days - just practice one of the 8 core skills of bow drill for at least 15 minutes every day.

That means you could:

🔥Harvest a nice stick to make your bow
🔥Chop up a fireboard from a seasoned log
🔥Carve a few spindles
🔥Find or create a sweet top rock (or antler)
🔥Practice tying and tightening your bow string
🔥Bow out a bunch of starter holes
🔥Carve notches in your fireboard
🔥Attempt or succeed in busting a coal
🔥Blowing a tinder bundle into flame
🔥Introducing a tinder bundle into a fire structure
🔥Testing out novel tinders and coal extenders
🔥Making a bow drill kit from all wild wood

Who's in? Tag if you're down to clown and practice bow drill every day for 30 days.

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01/30/2025

We had so much fun teaching our mushroom log cultivation class on Saturday!

Our participants learned how to identify PNW tree species with mushroom affiliations, plug mushroom spawn from North Spore Mushrooms and care for their inoculated log at home.

Wanna grow your own mushrooms at home?
Use RAINWALKREWILD for 10% off at NorthSpore.com

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The fabulous Tyee Arts and Education Center at Honeychurch Antiques was the perfect venue for a sunny weekend workshop. Matt and I always love teaching here! Our February friction fire and ethnobotany workshops will be there, too!

Check out our upcoming field courses at Rainwalkrewild.com/field-courses

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