WildCommons NonProfit

WildCommons is enabling agrarian renaissance with real tools, real strategy, guts, and integrity. In what is to be our signature project between Seaside and Cannon Beach, the landscape scale 1000+ year action is rolling out with a rethink and reworking of an extensive industrial logging site. The site centers on a convex 100-acre plateau of exceptional soil type between two streams a roar’s distance from the ocean on formerly Nehalem, Tillamook, and Klatskanie tribal lands. The project builds on indigenous agriculture/agroecological practices and through productive farm and community, is increasingly landscape, forest, and soil restorative. Long term results are ShangriLa Creek Watershed re-establishment and beyond all while productively feeding a hungry community that plays host to the world.

We mix primordial form with highly technical tools in very adaptive holistic and landscape-scale management which is Brady’s specialty; Brady is the project lead and mastermind. On the one hand, we are reinventing the art and science of age old Shepherd-ry, beginning by grazing the plateau with light footed, sweet milked, pretty eyed Jersey cows living in the landscape, raising their own babies, and milking themselves on their schedule.

The milkery and the landscape responsive shepherding combo eliminate the need for dairy while still providing pristine milk from intention, quality of life, and a sweet symbiosis. We skip dairy all together using a come-as-you-like robotic milker mounted to a milk processing space where cows wander in a few times each day for just moments while living in green fields and forests lined with food forest hedgerow along the spawn of what will someday be old growth forests lining the downslopes. Truly non-dairy milk that is actually milk but not as you’ve ever known it before!

Again, in Coast-Salish tradition, we are growing permaculture food within and surrounding our meadows to increase the diversity of pasture and the choices for the grazers and ourselves. A local innovation is to allow meadow prairie process to build soil and stable crumb structure 12 of 15 years while a 3-year rotation allows up to 20% of the land to yield specialty crops through high-output precision agriculture which is beyond organic and fully certifiable.

As WildCommons pioneers a coastal Oregon Food System we are doing so by what is called Blue Ocean Market Strategy to target and point our energy to creating pure value in its most direct form. This means we put zero energy toward competition. That same energy instead is customer facing, lean, and honed to relevant value creation. Blue Ocean Strategy is to create the new market space oriented to true needs and pure value that takes longtime expectations seriously and predicts the real and tangible future expectations. In hindsight this has led to us literally taking dairy out of milk!

As important as it is to be market innovators, our true strength lies in our creation of tribe and economy-of-scale with all the efficiency gained therein while staying truly small, truly local, truly artisan. We believe in the place of people in the landscape but not just people; agrarians! Humans integrally tied to the landscape and the local community, directly responsive to the prospering of both by the realization of their own prosperity. WildCommons is focused on the leverage point that can change paradigms; people, and an altogether different way of interacting with landscapes. As innovative and customer and market responsive as our production choices are, it is production efficiency, effects, and capacity that is our true signature. We facilitate interworking and co-adaptivity of independent artisan agrarians interacting directly and positively with landscapes and in so doing we enable agrarian prosperity beginning with re-birth… Renaissance!