The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer
Episodes
How to Start a Friction Fire the Communal Way w/ Ian Walton Larner & Aoife Ni Lodainn
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rewilding is a community effort. Many ancestral skills today are created with an individualist mindset, friction fire being one of them. But in older ...
Running an Outdoor Youth Program w/ Neal Ritter
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every once and a while I am happy and stunned to find an educational organization that makes me feel envious at the clear impact they are making on ki...
Solar Punk and Rewilding w/ Andrew Sage
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rewilding reconnects people to a regenerative relationship with the lands where we dwell. Many people live lives that are dramatically linked to techn...
Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila Henson
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Am I Rewilder Enough? w/ Sheila HensonDo you feel like a poseur when it comes to rewilding? Do you have guilty pleasures you can’t give up? Are you ...
How Hunter-Gatherers Learn w/ Dr. Gul Deniz Salali
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For millions of years, and in some places still today, hunter-gatherers raise competent and capable children. They do this while navigating challengin...
Maintaining Peaceful Societies w/ Douglas Fry
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For millions of years, evidence suggests that humans lived in relatively equal societies, where food acquisition and child raising were shared activit...
Rekindling Ancestral Lifeways in Ireland w/ Lucy O’Hagan
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creating ancestral skills communities is central to rewilding. We need people sharing skills together, we need people tending land together. These com...
Surviving Multiple Environments w/ Tom McElroy
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key aspects of wildness is adaptation. Being able to change and adapt to different needs, in different environments, is a cornerstone of re...
The Wrong Way to Rewild
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m fond of saying, “There’s no one right way to rewild.” A friend once asked me, “Sure, Peter. But is there a wrong way?” I wanted to do ...
Why We Need Wild Foods w/ Monica Wilde
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When some human societies made the shift from wild, procured foods to domesticated, produced foods there is a corresponding decline in the health of t...
Community as the Primary Survival Skill w/ Luke McLaughlin
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humans evolved in social, cooperative bands, using this cooperation as an evolutionary advantage. These days, rugged individualism still seems to domi...
What is a Subsistence Economy and What Makes Them So Resilient w/ Dr. Helga Vierich
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To attain the level of resilience that cultural rewilding calls for, requires moving away from an economy based on extraction for profit that lays was...
The Reality of Hunter-Gatherers w/ Dr. Robert Kelly
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rewilding is about seeking a reciprocal relationship to the environment and to one another. Material and cultural conditions kept humans in relative c...
Rewilding Cities Through Place-making Permaculture w/ Mark Lakeman
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
City landscapes are perhaps the most decimated and human centric habitats in today’s world. These landscapes are in need of thoughtful rewilding. Ci...
Rewilding Your Connection to the Land Through Stories w/ Jason Godesky
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The longer a culture exists in a place, the more stories they have of that place. These stories act a way for people to interact with the land where t...
Hunting and Gathering Like a BOSS w/ Randy Champagne
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are few opportunities for people living in modern contexts to experience what life would be like living in a band of hunter-gatherers. While the...
Rewilding as Anti-Fascism w/ Cara Delia Schwab
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fascist ideology has been on the rise, with a calculated effort on the part of fascists, to infiltrate environmental movements. Rewilding has seen its...
Community Rewilding in the City w/ Sharon Kallis
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I’m talking shop with my friend and colleague Sharon Kallis. Sharon facilitates a community organization similar to Rewild Portland ...
Never Alone w/ Woniya Thibeault
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode I am once again chatting with my friend and colleague Woniya Thibeault. This episode contains spoilers for the television series ALONE...
Rewilding in Eastern Australia w/ Eva Angophora
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rewilding looks different in places all around the world, but also shares many similarities: from settler-colonialism to mainstream co-option. In this...
Subsistence Challenges w/ James V Morgan
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subsistence–the way we acquire our food–is a central aspect of rewilding. To talk with me both about the anthropology of subsistence but also the ...
Social Forestry w/ Hazel
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Permaculture is a design science for creating regenerative landscapes. In rewilding, we often perceive it as a kind of technology based on ancient hun...
Rewilding in Britain w/ Scott Baine
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For regular listeners to the podcast, and those entrenched in the rewilding movement, we know that rewilding looks different in various places, and ha...
Animist Re-Engagement w/ Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I first learned about animism in the book The Story of B by Daniel Quinn. While the term animism was initially invented by anthropologists as a way of...
The Fascist Threat w/ Alexander Reid Ross
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rewilding means a return to living in reciprocity with the ecologies in which we dwell, and with each other. It is a movement that critiques and rejec...
Living in a Material World w/ Daniel of WHAT IS POLITICS
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropology is at the core of rewilding. Understanding the various ways in which humans act and why, helps us draw a picture of what is possible for ...
Challenges with "Rewilding" w/ Kara Moses
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I’m chatting with Kara Moses. Kara is a biologist and educator teaching nature connection, rewilding, wild living skills and woodlan...
Invasive Species in Rewilding w/ Tao Orion
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chat with Tao Orion. Tao holds a degree in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from UC Santa Cruz and a MSc degree in Climate Ch...
Rewilding Contraception w/ Samantha Zipporah
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest for this episode is Samantha Zipporah. Samantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health throug...
Art, Storytelling, and Survival Skills in Rewilding w/ Hannes Wingate
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hannes Wingate is an artist, builder, designer, and outdoor survival-skills instructor. He was educated at Central St. Martins College of Art in Londo...
Death Work and Collapse w/ Rachael Rice
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with my friend, Rachael Rice. Rachael is an artist, writer, death worker and certified weirdo who crafts scroll-stopping conten...
Dogs in Rewilding w/ David Ian Howe
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Rewild Podcast I talk with David Ian Howe about dogs and rewilding. David is a professional archaeologist trying to popularize ...
Collapse Care w/ Carmen Spagnola
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Rewilding Podcast, I converse with Carmen Spagnola about the necessary self and community care that comes with the realization ...
Rewilding Christianity
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seven in ten Americans identify as Christian. For a movement like rewilding to gain more traction, it must intersect with the belief systems of the cu...
Rewilding Myth w/ Sophie Strand
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I converse with writer Sophie Strand. I've found her writing to be particularly inspiring to my rewilding journey in terms of und...
Day to Day Rewilding
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recently one of my patrons asked me what my day to day rewilding looked like. This is a glimpse into some of that, but also with perspective on what i...
The Overpopulation Problem w/ Jason Godesky
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Jason Godesky. Jason is an old friend and colleague of mine. We met in the early 2000’s on an internet chat board called “Ish Co...
What is Rewilding?
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I return to the theme of this podcast: rewilding. It's used in so many contexts now, from video games to outdoor clothing to life...
Depression & Rewilding w/ Sheila Henson
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve lived with depression for most of my life. I’ve learned to manage my symptoms in order to function and live a more fulfilling life. I’ve de...
A Conversation w/ Author Lisa Wells
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Wells is the author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, The Fix, and winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her essays have been publi...
Living the Handmade Life w/ Delia Ann Turner
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I converse with someone who has greatly inspired me, Delia Ann Turner. Delia co-owns and operates The School of the Greenwood: For Cre...
5 Ways to Start Rewilding
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I answer three questions from my patrons on patreon:1. What is your advice for people just beginning on their rewilding journeys?2....
Exploring "Cancel Culture" w/ Clementine Morrigan
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m chatting with Clementine Morrigan, a prolific writer and podcaster covering a range of topics. In this conversation we talk about “cance...
Survival and the Will to Live w/ Eli Loomis
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Loomis is an instructor and Executive Director at Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) in Utah. At 53 years old, BOSS is the oldest survival sch...
A Conversation w/ John Zerzan
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m chatting with John Zerzan, long time anarchist author, speaker and host of Anarchy Radio out of Eugene, Oregon. John's writing has ...
Primal Anarchy w/ Natasha Tucker
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first half of a conversation between myself and Natasha Tucker from Primal Anarchy Podcast. The second half will be released by th...
The Ethics of Craft Culture w/ Lise Silva Gomes
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chat with Lise Silva Gomes, an artist who works with fiber, knots, paint and more, who has spent a great deal of time thinking and t...
Fighting for Tribal Peoples w/ Stephen Corry
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The earth’s biodiversity depends [very directly] on its human diversity.” - Stephen CorryIn this episode I chat with Stephen Corry, the former ...
Embodied Anthropology
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the narratives found in rewilding originate from the study of cultures outside of civilization, through the discipline of anthropology. In thi...
Why Bother? and Other Q&A
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Months ago I asked my facebook and instagram audience if they had questions that I could answer in a podcast. I finally delved into the well of inquir...
Rewilding Masculinity w/ Dr. Martha McCaughey
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Popular culture likes to tell us that modern men are still just cavemen that masquerade in suits. That they are really just big dumb brutes, bent on d...
Engaging With the History and People of Your Place w/ Dr. David Lewis
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with Dr. David Lewis, historian, anthropology professor and member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. We talk about th...
In the Crucible w/ Woniya Thibeault
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chat with Woniya Thibeault, ancestral skills practitioner and teacher, and recent cast member of the History Channel's ALONE sh...
Hunter-Gatherers & The Search for Meaning w/ Dr. Leonard Martin
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chat with Dr. Leonard Martin, retired professor of the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Psychology program at Georgia Universit...
To Wander with Intention w/ Bartle
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I speak with my friend Bartle about her experiences on walkabouts, leading animal processing camps, running, and much more. Bartle&apo...
Living in Complex Colonial Contexts w/ Lucy O'Hagan
22 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today, my guest is Lucy O’Hagen, the founder and head of Wild Awake! Ireland. I’ve followed Lucy’s work for several years and continue to feel d...
Rewilding & Anarchy with Kevin Tucker
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anarchy is a central component to the rewilding movement, and as such it is here that I wanted to place my first interview. Today I’m chatting with ...
An Introduction
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this introductory episode, I talk about my story: who I am, where I came from, and what rewilding means to me. This episode sets the context in whi...