ANTHROPOLOGY, BUSHCRAFT, rewilding 

WITH PETER MICHAEL BAUER

Inside every human there is a spark waiting to be rekindled.

Meet PETER

Peter Michael Bauer is an internationally known leader in the cultural rewilding movement. For over 20 years he has written and taught about rewilding. He has served as an expert source in multiple academic articles and books on the subject. He is the founder and director of Rewild Portland, a trend setting community based nonprofit.

Peter learned to tend his first fires as a child in the scouts. He started his first friction fire at age 16 under the tutelage of a mentor. Around this time he began bow-drill busking on the streets of Portland, OR, lighting people’s cigarettes for pocket change. This spawned his Urban Scout street performance character, a world famous blog on rewilding, and eventually the founding of Rewild Portland.

He has attended various survival and bushcraft schools around the country, including Tracker School, Living Wild with Lynx Vilden, Wilderness Awareness School, Siskiyou Permaculture, and Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Utah where he also works.

As an “anthrodidact,” Peter teaches skills and creates content that fuses anthropology, environmentalism, and bushcraft. He is the host of the popular Rewilding Podcast.

OUR KICKSTARTER WAS SUCCESSFUL!

I am teaming up with my friend Calen Kennett who is the director of Village Video to transform my Rewilding 101 course into an 8 part documentary film series and an online course. We will be spending the fall and winter of 2026 converting the course from my lectures into a script, and then shooting and editing the in spring and summer of 2027. Stay tuned for updates!

THE REWILDING PODCAST

w/ PETER MICHAEL BAUER

Are you looking at our society racked with disconnection, poor mental and physical health, social injustice, and the wanton destruction of the natural world and asking yourself, “What can I do?” Join experimental anthropologist Peter Michael Bauer as he converses with experts from many converging fields that help us craft cultures of resilience. Weaving together a range of topics from ecology to wilderness survival skills to permaculture, each episode deepens and expands your understanding of how to rewild yourself and your community.

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Testimonials

  • “I enrolled in Peter’s course during a time of personal transition. Expecting information, I received powerful insight-into how we got to this place in history, what really mattered to me at my core, what I could contribute going forward. The scope of Peter’s knowledge is amazing!”

    Trish Stormont

  • “In this time of cynicism, a lot of us are looking for new ways to live that could have a positive impact on ecosystems. This is the class that reenergized me. I discovered a perspective on life that left marks on me much beyond what you’d normally expect from such a short class.”

    Alexandre Normand

  • “I took this class last Autumn and it was so much fun. I met some really cool people, learned a ton and loved Peter Michael Bauer’s approach to teaching. If you are looking for something completely different and possibly mind blowing, you should take this class.”

    Martha Grover