If you want to build a ship don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wild Folk has been built and fed by a whole host of learners, land tenders, storytellers, and organizers of various ages and backgrounds. Over the years, Wild Folk has shape-shifted to respond to the changing needs of our community, human and more-than-human. This has included running a beautiful experimental democratic forest school, offering a wide range of transformative programs for youth and adults, and creating a community apothecary with homegrown plant medicine.
All of this work has been grounded in deeply held values of ecological connection, social and environmental justice, peace and non-violence, and a vision of a more healed society.
Today, the focus of Wild Folk's work is regenerative land-tending and community-based herbalism, based primarily in the Hudson Valley of New York. You can purchase some of our offerings via the online shop or reach out for in-person connection.
Wild Folk is part of CARE QUARTERLY which creates seasonal care packages filled with art, herbal medicine, and ritual objects. Each limited edition is handmade & locally grown, with a quarter of packages donated to different caregivers.
We hope you are finding ways to nourish yourself and your community on this wild ride.