Wild Nature Heart

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An orientation to the Wild Nature Heart ecosystem:

courses, books, immersions, and liberatory pathways into deeper participation with the animate web of life.

WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS

Upcoming Programs:

💧Write Your Wild River (Starts Sunday, October 11)
🌎Earth Intimacies (Starts Thursday, November 5)
❤️‍🔥Deep Belonging in the Great Composting (6 Fridays starting November 6)

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Books from the Wild Nature Heart Field

NEW & EMERGING:
The first two THRUM books, Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed, are available now.

Riverever arrives on the fall equinox.

Forage among Wild Nature Heart’s collection of organic, free-range earth poetry books.

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UNDERGROUND BECOMING: On mushrooms, hidden movements, and the extravagant Yes of collective liberation

Referendum from the mycelial underground—The forest has voted YES.Motion carried overwhelmingly by spore majority. This beautiful bolete emerged practically overnight. It’s one of the bruising boletes, whose golden pores turn dark almost immediately upon touch, through the sudden oxidation of compounds within its tissues….

Posted on October 17, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

The Forgotten Ones: Meet the Lichen People for October’s Re-Enchantment Day

Every October, Re-Enchantment & Gratitude Day turns its attention to the Forgotten Ones, those beings and aspects of the animate web of life we may have overlooked, or who don’t easily fit into the themes of other months. This year’s Forgotten Ones turned out…

Posted on October 14, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Naming Still Matters – On Place Names and the Ongoing Work of (De)Colonization on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

A year later, naming still matters. I wrote this reflection for Indigenous Peoples’ Day last year, exploring the relationship between naming, colonial erasure, land, memory, and liberation. I’m sharing it again today because the questions haven’t gone away. The realities they point to have…

Posted on October 12, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning