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Skyborne Magicians
The clear cutters worked this landscape. Our red-tailed magician lived this landscape.
Kincentrically Rewilding Central Virginia
The Wildland
Let's Cut The Crap. This is forage-fed and forage-finished goat in Central Virginia.
No feedlots. No antibiotics. No hormones. No grains. No preservatives. No herbicides. No pesticides. No cover-crops. No castration. No fungicides. No separation or weaning. No plastic. No spot-spraying weeds. No fertilizers. No dewormers. No forced breeding. Only nature ... only pasture and forest from birth through life to death.
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Animal Husbandry Reimagined
Kincentric Rewilding Cattle
Instead of focusing on soil health or vegetative communities or breeding calendars or breed registries, our relationship with the land has emerged to understand, thanks to the kind but ungentle prodding of our four-legged cousins, the land as the land. The land as herself. And the land as us, her body writ in a bloody grit.
Not life in this direction or that; not a regenerative life as opposed to a degenerative life; but life. Nonjudgmental. Non-linear. This is the voice that echoes over the lands. There is nothing to search for, there is only to be, to see, to witness the wonderful veins of life wandering with Earth. There is only to let go and to love that which is found when you hold nothing at all.
Wildland Cattle
The Wildland "Open Grazes" about 100 acres at a time, with a singular herd comprised of many extended family units of 10 to 15 bovines, who come together into one thundering herd to migrate from block to block.
We do not manage breeding, we do not supplement their diets, we do not castrate or wean or separate families and their young.
“You are ruining what our ancestors worked so hard for—well-domesticated animals,” voice some and “you must be wealthy if you do not need to maximize production,” echo others who are probably more intelligent and probably better at managing cattle than us.
They are definitely richer than us. We often struggle to reply to such comments. We sit back in silence and sadness. No, we think. We just don’t have a right to enslave the cow, or life for that matter, to profit, to "regenerate" our own culture's misdoings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions concerning The Wildland
What is your Most Recent Book?
Released Spring, 2024, Firth's latest book is Stagtine: Kincentric Rewilding, Science, & A Tale of Letting Go. It is Book I of what we are calling The Wildland Chronicles, a three book, nearly 1,300 page trilogy about The Wildland, its philosophies, corresponding science, and so much more!
Is your meat organic?
Great question! If you mean "organic" as something that is not chemically-infused with modern herbicides, pesticides, or fungicides, such as glyphosate, Grazeon, paraquat, 2 4-D, and more, YES!
The Wildland absolutely, entirely, completely, does not and has never used any chemicals on the land, with our animals, or around our buildings. Never. Ever. This means no dewormers, only chemical free hay and minerals, etc.
Why don't you castrate your animals?
Well, first off: they are not "our animals." And second off: we will castrate them when we are okay being castrated ourselves.
Why don't you call yourselves "regenerative?"
Ah, this is an easy one! Regenerative agriculture takes industrial capitalism for granted and Mother Earth's resources as a guarantee. But industrial capitalism is ruining the world and Earth is not a resource, but a relation (Robin Wall Kimmerer).
Read Stagtine to learn about this and so much more.
Wildland Evolution
A land let go
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The Wildland Chronicles
All of the below articles, journals, and more are published on Firth's Substack,The Wildland Chronicles, you can comment and discuss these articles and more!
Earthen Exam
Often, Earth throws diamonds and gold up from her womb as an experiment, to see what our species will do. Cut and color combine clearly under her ultimate heat and...
The Cacophony of Roots and Rise
The day. The morning. The dancers. The dance. We—the stillness, the verve, the cacophony of roots and rise of reclamation and rest—dance.
Why Big Publishers Have Sales Departments
“What were they like, grandpa?” They will ask as they bounce on our knees or maybe they will ask as they kneel at our graves. “They were profitable.” We will...