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Hello, everyone. Many people call me Nani.
I have been looking all over for people deeply into nature and living alongside it. Before stumbling across this website, I had not found many - especially people around my age. However, I am grateful to be able to learn from those more experienced than I am.
Over the past few years, I've been learning basic but long-term survival tactics from both volunteer events around Arizona and my professional study (medical massage therapy - where i have learned how important nervous/endocrine system regulation is). Going from the coasts, where I've spent much of my life, to being in such arid conditions has drawn me to become more familiar with my surroundings. It's been strange to see how many people are making it in the desert mostly because of air conditioning and grocery stores, especially when I think about the fact those are particularly unsustainable here.
I know it's a tad extreme but I've been asking myself if I could thrive without modern conveniences if they were to fail (also about how they already have failed me in many ways) and I've noticed that a large part of myself wants to do away with them completely. This site has told me to forget about living sustainably with the land but, honestly, that's all I want to do. People have done it before, haven't they?
I'm excited to learn more from you all and what you have experienced in your efforts to make do with what the world provides. I hope you feel welcome to reach out to me.
I don't have much experience yet but from the events I mentioned earlier, I have learned that mountains can create conditions that attract rain and how to create structures that harvest water from them. I've also been learning how to make the most of natural materials for tools and shelter. I have been slowly studying local ecology as well as learning how to make and repair fabric. I know there is much more to learn. Though, I have developed a preference for primitive technologies due to their simplicity but also because many things being used today have been treated with PFAs/BPAs, chemicals that may not impact us much in the present but could have devastating impacts for future generations. As a fairly young "survivor," I have to plan several decades into the future and the more I look ahead, the less promising things seem to appear. The fact that I'm currently in a city where the smog on the horizon seems to get thicker every time I look at it is probably not helping... but either way, I believe life would be more fulfilling if what I did contributed directly to my community and was adapted to my environment. The goal isn't to be completely off-grid or disconnected but to have my resources come from as close to home as possible. Essentially, I see myself living a tribal lifestyle with people who work together to create sustainable wealth. I hope I am in the right place to learn how to make that happen.
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