All photography provided by Jared Chambers

dedicated to Finding, learning, eating from, and conserving wild spaces for people and animals in the Hudson Valley.

We provide wild food and spaces for learning nature skills, while maintaining ecologically welcoming environments for plants and animals.

For people who want to learn to eat from the wild

Why?

Sustainable farms are doing so much more than growing healthy food. by nature of what they do --- they are creating eco-sysstems/habitats suitable for all:people, flora, fauna, water, soil, oxygen...

It's not just the beautiful vegetables and prolific orchards that are contributing to this healthy cycle. the neglected, weedy spaces, the 'back 40' woodlots, the behind-the-deer-fence meadows, the ephemeral wetlands after teh snow melt, the tall grass by the barn side, beyond a mower's grasp.

this is where nature roams free, uninterrupted by housing, tilling, dirty water, etc... fertility is produced haphazardly, with no human inputs, mycorizae grow in bacterial peace, sensitive species of allkinds: flora, fauna, fungi have safe habitat. 

ALL that unrully, untrimmed, unpretty stuff = good earth for all.

it also equals a storehouseof nutrition (not othewise accesible at groceries and even farm share) from freely growing roots, shoots, leaves, berries, nutrs, mushrooms....................

it is also a ready-made outdoor classroom for learning new relationships with the wild, through 

art making

building with available materials

cooking together with what's around

meditating / walking

meeting animals

and ---- more about why wild spaces matter: 

riparian buffer

pesticide buffer

etc

an essential component of a sustainable eco-system and farm

sooooooooooooo - our work is preserving and promoting these mini-wildernesses through diversifying our relationship with such spaces. 

- by looking at them

- feeding from them

- learning through them

What We've Achieved