"Lynx Vilden, a 54-year-old British expat who, for most of her adult life, has lived wholly off the grid ... Lynx is not your typical back-to-the-lander. The lithe, blonde former teen punk, who grew up in the 'concrete and dismal gray' environs of London, has become an unlikely torchbearer of humanity’s wild heritage. Her overarching aim is not to simply survive out here in nature but 'to live as wild people lived' and to show others how to do so as well."
Read more in this article by Katherine Rowland in Outside magazine.
This is a great article. I love Lynx and I love the Methow. I respect those who want to live closer to nature and learn the old skills.
"I suspect it is the people who are closest to the old ways who will survive the modern times."
Michael Pilarski
MICHAEL “SKEETER” PILARSKI is a life-long student of plants and earth repair. His farming career started in 2nd grade and his organic farming career began in 1972 at age 25. Michael founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and took his first permaculture design course in 1982. Since 1988 he has taught 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad. His specialties include earth repair, agriculture, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing and wildcrafting. He has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants. He is a prolific gathering organizer and likes group singing.