Hello all!

In the final hours of 2009, I've finished setting up some new features on the site.

• The archive of my old site, the Anthropik Network, has moved into its permanent home here on Rewild.info, at http://rewild.info/anthropik/
• More importantly for you all, you'll see the Wiki tab has returned! We have MediaWiki installed now (the same open source software package that powers Wikipedia).

The wiki will need some time to flesh out, and we'll need your help to do it! You may notice that the old sticky thread "Post Your Local Rewilding Group Here!" has gone away. That has moved into the wiki. For now at least, think of the wiki as a place to plug your local rewilding group into Rewild.info. Open space meetings usually have a wiki page for organization, right? The wiki will provide you with that. Just use the same user name and password you use to log into the forums.

I've started off by copying over the information from the old thread into separate pages for each group. Please, expand on that information! Everything you add to the wiki will make it that much more useful!

I'd like to write about my/our scene here in Finland to the wiki/anywhere on these pages where it's best.

I went to the Wiki to the Rewild Finland section and clicked "edit page" to write more stuff, but then it said that my status as "User" means I can't edit pages. Well, I'm on comp pretty seldom and too tired to think about how and where I could write this, so I'll write it here, you can put it anywhere if you like.

My personal scene: I live in Northern Carelia, somewhat near the town of Kuopio, with my friend. We are both into stone-age technology and wild and happy ways to be human. I haven't made a rent contract with him there yet, but at the moment it seems probable that we will make one soon, and live there together for now.

The house is about 60 years old, I would estimate, wooden, owned by my housemate's granddad, we're on rent there. Most of our time; I feel goes into taking car of the house and fulfilling our basic needs, for example heating in the winter with wood (it's a semi-big house, so it's a fair amount of work every day), fixing things, building things, cooking, exercising, etc. On our spare time we usually work on handicrafts. My greatest passion is tanning and sewing leather. My housemate is also into it, as he is into bone- and stonework, and a LOT of stuff :D He's passionate about everything... :D Well yeah, we are both about everything related to wild humanness and earth-sufficiency.

We are also both planning on buying land some way, perhaps together, and live there pretty primitively. Make our own dwellings, gather, grow, trap, fish, hunt food, etc. Eat and make tools out of what we can find on the land, and what we cannot, trade to something we have/some work we want to and can do.

About rewilding in Finland otherwise: I know about a dozen people who share the passion, but I feel we haven't yet organized events of our own specifically around the theme (as far as I know, there have been none specifically on absolutely wild human life). There are excellent yearly events celebrating agricultural community life (organized e.g. by the Rihmasto network & by the Juurielo association) and sometimes joyful events on urban/agricultural (eco-)anarchism (organized by random anarchists), and some quality activities around stone-age lifestyle (organized e.g. by the Kuttelo association), but not specifically rewilding gatherings, as far as I know. I have been with Finnish people in a "rewild camp" called Urvision (organized by Vildväxande Kollektivet) in Sweden on two summers. I admire the concept they have, and am inspired to one day throw a rewild festival of my own in Finland. When I've got my own basics of life in better order, I'll probably concentrate more on that.

If you share my spirit and dreams and are around Finland/Kuopio, feel free to email to me to ronja.aarniala@gmail.com. Perhaps we will end up meeting, working and playing together.