We had a wonderful restoration day last Saturday! Thanks to everyone who showed up to support our work.

We are excited to announce a Patreon online screening of the documentary Second Nature in September!

One of the main ways we fund our work at Wonderland is through Patreon! If you are interested in becoming a member, here is what we are offering you in return:

Our online content focuses on the following areas: building intentional community, invasive species management, beaver-based restoration work and educational tutorials, videos, articles and interviews.

As a Wonderland Patron member you will receive the above mentioned online content, invitations to workshops and social events, gifts and access to our printable zines.

We had an amazing restoration day earlier this month. We spent time thinking and working like beavers to restore a wetland corridor and plug a few pond leaks, and we are so grateful to everyone who showed up!

Spring is keeping us busy at Wonderland and we wanted to share some of the things we have been working on!

An in depth conversation with Julie Vanderwal from The Beaver Food Forest about wetland restoration.

Fall is flying by! Here is a recap of what we have been up to at the land these past few months.

Last week  some of us attended a conversation between Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Uahikea Maile at Haymarket House about decolonial strategies that look to Water as a catalyst for radical transformation.

This was our second year proudly co-hosting the Midwest Beaver Summit with @illinois.beaver.alliance. This year, some Wonderlanders got to attend in person and we want to share our insights from the event with you.

The freedom of Palestine is intertwined with the liberation of Congo, Sudan, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Syria, Haiti and so many places in the world. It is also connected to Land and Water justice everywhere and to Indigenous sovereignty.

May's workday was amazing! Having 11 extra pairs of hands makes a huge difference to how much we can accomplish on a workday, and it also means we can spend more time in conversations and hiking.

When we started our Wonderland Patreon page, we had a group meeting to spitball ideas of what sort of content, events and gifts we should offer people.

We had an amazing work day last Sunday! Some of us camped the whole weekend since we were celebrating our Aries Wonderlanders! The weather was beautiful, we saw a couple of beavers, we had lots of fun, and also got a lot done!

We are so proud of Natalie! Her interview with Alexis Nikole Nelson was amazing!

It is hard not to despair as funding for restoration and regenerative agriculture (and so many other important areas of life) gets cut, and we see amazing projects being halted… but we know that collaborating and supporting each other will bring us forward to sustain life.  

In the midst of bad news, we have a bit of good news to share with you all: Wonderland Community Project has been awarded a stipend by Climate Land Leaders for planting 40 new trees in our growing agroforestry operation!

The Mighty Beaver and the Midwest Beaver Summit

In our community we have been discussing what we want our relationships with our volunteers to look like since the early days. We’ve wondered how to provide space for them to build their own relationship with the land along with boundaries and agreements and what we can offer to them in reciprocity.