The Wildland Chronicles

Stagtine Seminar, June Cohort (SOLD OUT)

$175.00 Sold out

Tuesdays from 7pm - 8pm EST, June 4th - August 6th!

Do you want to take a deep dive into Stagtine with Firth, chapter by chapter, thought by thought, exploring the intricacies, details, stories, and nuances of kincentric rewilding? 

This live, 10-week, and online cohort-based course is created for those who want to read and study the book with the author.

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Course Overview

Stagtine Seminar

Watch this video to learn more about the Seminar and all that is included!

If your circumstances mean that the regular fee would be an obstacle, get in touch to arrange a reduced rate. Contact Us!

Nothing is required or asked of you. If you want to abuse this relationship, that is between you and Creator and we mourn for you.

Course Overview

What to Expect

In this 10-week, cohort-based course, we will slowly and together (in a LIVE environment) unpack and hold the "kincentric rewilding worldview," as it is laid out in Firth's latest book, Stagtine.

Every week, there willd be required readings from Stagtine, alongside a large collective of organized, supplementary papers and scanned books that will help further our faculties to question Understanding and better carry us back into being human, the mammal, once again.

When you sign up, you will receive the book (if you do not have one already) and a syllabus with attached Course Reader.

If you want to intimately walk through Stagtine with the author and a group of like-minded friends, engaging in rich and deep conversation along the way, this is for you!

How the Seminar Works

Conversation & Community

Upon signing up, you will receive a full Seminar Syllabus with Stagtine and Course Reader, over 600 additional pages of suggested readings, organized for these sessions!

We meet over Zoom for a 60-minute seminar (conversation) session each week.

The seminar sessions opens with a few minutes to land together as a group. Then Firth gives a short talk introducing this week’s theme and key questions.

The second half of the session is a time for questions, conversation, and reflection.

At the end of each session, following a short break, you are welcome to join us for the afterparty – this is a chance to hang out and meet each other in a more informal setting.

A video of the main session will be shared within a day or two, and these will be available for participants to view for six months after the course.

At the end of the series, you are welcome to stay with us as part of the Round Table, a self-organizing community whose members, met through earlier series, gather regularly on Zoom.

Your Teacher

D. Firth Griffith

Hunter-Husbandman, storyteller, and kincentric rewilding pioneer, Firth is the author of The Wildland Chronicles, and this cohort's teacher.

Your Teacher

D. Firth Griffith

Hunter-Husbandman, storyteller, and kincentric rewilding pioneer, Firth is the author of The Wildland Chronicles, and this cohort's teacher.

Before attending the course I was wondering if it would really be worth the time and money to attend, but afterwards I think it’s a steal of a deal. Perhaps one of the better ways you could spend your money, I wish it didn’t have to end.

Past Student

The Wildland's courses are the most practical and comprehensive educational program I have yet attended, in the field of regenerative agriculture. The course fulfilled and then surpassed all expectations that had been set by the description given. I highly recommend attendance to anyone who seeks to deepen their connection with Earth.

Past Student

These courses have given me a huge boost with eco-literacy and has empowered me with the tools, knowledge and confidence to ask questions of the land, observe it in context, and monitor its changes.

Past Student

stagtine's themes

Part I: Genetic Memory and Intergenerational Linkages

Does stress affect meat quality and its nutrient-density's bioavailability?

This section of Stagtine invites the reader to consider the intergenerational and interspecial linkages of our food, illuming food as a mechanism of communication founded in memory. It also challenges the modern ethos that what your food eats matters but how your food feels does not.

What is more important: nutrient-rich beef or happy cows?

Part II: Autonomous and Directed Communication of Life

If life is free to autonomously accept the basic conditions as they are, free to commune and converse, what does this mean for agricultural management?

The narrative invites the reader
to consider what separates rocks and humans and plants and cows and how life communicates through a cognitive animacy conveyed behind cellular and community pathways. The section concludes with the idea that to run with them is not to hope in particular outcomes, but to release outcomes entirely in the hope that being human is enough. It is nurturing the animacy of life and its complex consciousness through becoming what we already are.

Part III: Overgrazing as Phenotypic Passivity

What if overgrazing and "degenerative" animal husbandry is really just phenotypic passivity: herds of animals unable to adapt, evolve, and converse to Earth around them.

The section concludes with an examination of phenotypic plasticity, the palate feedback loops that undergird the conscious movement and behavior of life, inviting the reader to consider whether what ecologists have called the “degenerative animal behavior” of overgrazing is really just an over-domestication
of their phenotype, causing adaptation issues and not a call for more management.

Part IV: The Death of Mob Grazing

Do herds of herbivores really mob, mow, and move?

This section asks us to forego the progressive mythos of our modern minds that pin competition as nature’s driving force and to understand that, in its place, lives extended families, relationship, purpose, and kinship. The chapters flows from the trials and victory of Mara, a matriarch in the goat herd, to the examinations of the nature of soil health, the cyclic and prehistoric nature of agriculture, and the need to rise as hunter-husbandmen. The section concludes, walking readers through the ancient mammalian landscapes to break the spells of herbivores as mobbing, moving, and mowing engines for our regeneration. The reader is invited to consider: what if we truly let go and ran with them?

Past Praise

"Carefully we must walk through Griffith’s words to find the nourishment our souls require, like a sacred encounter."

Precious Phiri

"Griffith puts into words what so many in the Regenerative Movement are missing."

Gabe Brown

"Griffith invents an entire new language to share with his readers. He is living it, being it, and his books are his gift."

Rosamund Young

"If there were a poet laureate, his name would be Daniel Firth Griffith.”

Allan Savory

"If you relish poetic writing, if you are in awe of existence ever in the process of creating, and if you delight in beauty, mystery, and wonder, you will dance with Daniel."

Fred Provenza

"Griffith's writing moved me toward balance. You could call it a devotional.”

Joel Salatin