Friday, June 5, 2015

Taking ReWilding a step further: The need for Community/Neighborhood

ABOUT US:

We are three rewilders/paleo enthusiasts  who - after several years of travelling, decided to challenge ourselves and adopt as much as possible a hunter/gatherer semi pastoralist lifestyle to better cope with civilization and its own sicknesses.

OUR MISSION:

REWILD OURSELVES!

Divided in three phases.

FIRST STAGE: Get involved with locals and get immersed in their culture.  Learn their strategies and ways to maximize the use of natural resources (plants, animals..)
NOTE: We currently are at this stage.

SECOND STAGE: Set up a BASECAMP (can be purchased with a small investment), to attract potential membes to come and get a sense of living with us. Train/learn survival skills,  goats keeping, raising chickens, gardening..

THIRD STAGE:  After we have acquired enough skills and enough seriously committed members, we can move towards the final stage of buying a large piece of land (with possibility to be extended), build proper huts/shelters/houses, plant fruit trees etc..

LOCATION:
Samal Island, southern Philippines.

INVESTMENTS: (to be reviewed, discussed, improved and changed whenever necessary)

FIRST STAGE:
1) Pay for your own expenses (food, accomodation and whatever else you need).
2) Share certain costs with us.

SECOND STAGE
1) Sharing costs of land (plus electricity bills/internet), food
2)Pay for your own expenses ( building materials for the construction of your hut..)

THIRD STAGE
1) Sharing costs of land (plus electricity bills/internet), food
2) Pay for your own expenses (building materials for the construction of your hut..)
3) Generate communal income for the construction of communal areas, the purchasing of tools, food, seedlings and animals...

USE OF TECHNOLOGY/TOOLS:

We allow the WISE use of the above.

ANIMALS:

We are looking forward to keep goats and chickens, dogs and cats.
If the land is big enough and there are enough people, we can consider also keeping cows and perhaps, pigs.

PLANTS:

Any usefull plant (food/medicine, natural fibers..)


SKILLS:

Any skills you may (already) have are greatly welcomed, needed and respected.
If you´ve got none at the moment, it´s enough that you are willing to learn some once here.


DIET:

Free to choose your own.

Given the yearly abundance of fresh foods, this location allows one to adopt and easily (cheapely) maintain the following diets:

1) Paleo (mostly fish/seafood, *chicken, *dogs, *cats, lizards, snakes, *goats, *cow)
2) Raw Paleo


FOOD:

PROTEINS/FATS (from animals)
Fish/seafood, *chicken, *dogs, *cats, lizards, snakes, *goats, *cow, bugs, eggs
* not "wild paleo"
STARCHES/FATS/MINERALS/VITAMINS (from plants)
Roots, bananas, coconuts, avocado vegetables, fresh greens, algaes, fruits (jackfruit, durian, mangosteen, papaya, mango, pineapple, watermelon..)

NOTE: Although we enjoy raw seafood, fish and algaes, we DO NOT follow a strict raw paleo diet.

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