We gathered with friends at Whitaker Ponds on Saturday to process acorns, crushing, grinding, winnowing, and leeching. Sarah brought some baked acorn treats that proved to be quite tasty. There were some walnut trees nearby, so we also harvested a basketful for future dye projects. [scrollGallery id=31]
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Posted: December 9, 2012 by Peter Bauer
Upcoming Rewild Skillshare: Myths, Legends, Folktales and Yarns
Hello Portland Rewilders! We would love to invite you to Rewild Portland’s “Rewild Skillshare”, our afternoon social networking event where people make new friends and hang out with friends and family while sharing skills, ideas and strategies for creating new cultures based on humanities ancestral heritage. We welcome all levels of experience. What: This month’s …
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Posted: October 29, 2012 by Peter Bauer
Rewild Skillshare 10.27.12
We gathered with friends at Whitaker Ponds on Saturday to process acorns, crushing, grinding, winnowing, and leeching. Sarah brought some baked acorn treats that proved to be quite tasty. There were some walnut trees nearby, so we also harvested a basketful for future dye projects. [scrollGallery id=31]
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Posted: June 28, 2012 by Peter Bauer
Rewilding OMSI!
We had a booth last night at the OMSI Fire and Water Themed After Dark event! The folks there probably thought they were just gonna get some beer and wine, but we gave them more than they bargained for. In between getting startled by the pirates’ cannon and admiring the smithy’s awesome work, we had …
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Posted: December 28, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Rewild Skillshare 12.28.11
Today was the last Rewild Camp of 2011. Many folks came out in spite of the rain and wind. We worked on making cordage from the nettle fiber that we processed at the November Rewild Camp. Sev worked on tanning his skunk hide with coffee grounds, Eric read some stories in Chinuk Wawa, Caleb made …
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Posted: December 16, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Rewild Skillshare 11.26.11
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Posted: October 27, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Rewild Portland in the Molalla Pioneer
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Posted: March 18, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Basket Class Pics
I recently finished facilitating one of our English Ivy Basket classes with Portland Waldorf high school. Here are some of the photos!
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Posted: March 4, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Fluency Basketry
In this video, our curriculum developer Willem Larsen leads instructor Peter Bauer (aka Urban Scout) through a debrief of how he used our unique educational system called the Fluency Hunting Game, to teach English Ivy basketry to the Portland Waldorf High School freshmen. Willem begins by discussing with Peter which of the game’s techniques he …
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Posted: February 17, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Playful Violence
Violence happens out in the world whether we want it to or not. Animal, vegetable or mineral, in order to continue our existence, something else must die. Which means we have to kill it. Most urban peoples are so far removed from killing that they forget it exists; meat at the grocery store never had …
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Posted: February 2, 2011 by Peter Bauer
Fluency Fiddling
Michael Ismerio’s Fluency Fiddling from Willem Larsen on Vimeo. In this video Willem Larsen sits down with Michael Ismerio, old time music fiddler and workshop leader, to discuss his recent workshop, boosted by an array of carefully chosen WAYK techniques WAYK is a design system for generating and improving accelerated learning environments, not just a …