Todd Wynward writes, farms, teaches and leads wilderness trips in northern NM. He is an animating force behind TiLT, an intentional discipleship co-housing community in the Rio Grande Watershed. His new book, Rewilding the Way, is to be published by Herald Press in 2015.

This is the 5th post in an 8-part series every Friday, covering unique experiments in Watershed Discipleship.
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We are making choices that will affect whether beings
thousands of generations from now
will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
Joanna Macy

To what extent can we thrive within the bounty—and the boundaries—of our bioregions? If we are to survive much longer as a species, many of us addicted to unbounded affluenza need to make this question central to our lives. As David Orr writes:

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to our infinite wants.

How can we—habituated to global gluttony—begin to reshape ourselves, as Orr suggests? Let me suggest a practical challenge that might be contagious: The 25/75/100 Bioregional Food Covenant [bioregionalfoodcovenant.org]. What’s daunting about this is that I’ve never done it before. What’s inspiring about this is that millions of people across the globe are already doing it, whether they’re conscious of it or not. To join, an individual would make this pledge: “By the year 2025, I will source 75% of my food from within 100 miles.”

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