FERAL WEDNESDAY at Ragged

OVERVIEW

Hi everyone
Come be feral with me at Ragged Mountain. This is for my ETP capstone so I will ask you to take a quick paper survey before and after your experience. It’s a little mysterious, perhaps a little wackadoodle, but join me this Wednesday morning… for feral activities. We will be around Ragged Mountain, not right at the reservoir. What is ferality? Well, that’s part of what I’m figuring out. We are going to try some stuff and in part create the experience together.

This is what I wrote about it:
“ I see feral as the borderlands, the inbetweens. Feral creatures are making a way for themselves in and around the structures of the regulated, domesticated world. What I am arguing for here is NOT the sterile sublimity of a mountain peak with no sign of other humans. This is not the wilderness scraped clean and picturesque. This feral principle is the Rivanna river running brown after a storm. It’s the trees covered in ivy on O’Hill. It’s the redbuds breathing in exhaust down the JPA corridor. We live in a world that is so permeable and full of humanity’s influence. It would be a disservice to ignore this fact on the way to becoming more present and better witnesses.”

Timing:
10am meet at echols
drive to Ragged
10:15 commence 1 feral hour
11:15 done
11:30 back to echols

To bring:
water
clothes you can move in

we can have more people come if someone else wants to drive! no gas reimbursement tho because its close to grounds