about us
eremos collective
What we do
We turn field research, traditional knowledge, and ecological science into practical resources for people looking for alternatives to industrial food and pharmaceutical systems. Wild foods, homegrown medicine, seasonal rhythms, working soil—we focus on what actually works. That means educational content on ethical foraging and wild food identification. Resources for homegrown wellness and traditional plant medicine. Research into ethnomycology and the long history of human-fungi relationships. Tools for household-scale food sovereignty.
We've spent a lifetime trying to keep this knowledge alive. Think of us as hired guns for the wild food world—we go where the work is and share what we find.
Who we are
We're practitioners first. What we share comes from dirt under fingernails, seasons spent learning when plants emerge, years of processing our own harvests. We chose the margins on purpose—not to escape, but to live differently.
We work from a Christian anarchist framework: neighbor-first, small over large, voluntary simplicity, care for creation. But our resources serve anyone looking for genuine alternatives.
How we operate
We sell things we couldn't find on the market, tools, curated materials—that fund what we actually care about: teaching and sharing resources that help people become less dependent on systems that don't serve them. Every sale supports our nonprofit mission to preserve knowledge that's getting lost.
Support this work by sharing knowledge in your own community, contributing to research and documentation, making a tax-deductible donation, or purchasing products that fund what we do.
We're building something quiet but persistent: a network of people who know their landscapes, tend their ground, and practice wellness rooted in creation rather than consumption.
Eremos Collective is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are federally tax-deductible.
Paul
"act justly, love mercy, walk humbly"
Paul started foraging at 7. Something in him knew there was more to food than what came from the freezer section and the food bank. That curiosity never left—it just got deeper.
He studied ethnobiology in school, but most of what he knows came from dirt, time, and pain. Two decades of wild food and wilderness education, and time in the wilderness. Extended stays with tribal communities on the Inland Plateau and in Oregon. Seasons on the Pacific Coast, in the Everglades, in the Adirondacks. Learning from people who still remembered, and from the land itself.
Now he's in the Ozarks, living the kind of life he spent years studying—simple, rooted, close to the ground. Foraging isn't a hobby here. It's how the household works.
Paul is neurodivergent and a helpless creative. You can find him in the woods (mostly lost) or halfway through a project he'll finish eventually.
Cayden
Youth Ambassador
Cayden grew up outside. Summers meant extended camping trips with his dad—fishing, foraging, learning to be comfortable in wild places. He was raised near Beaver Creek on the Pacific Coast, where salmon fishing, elk and blacktail hunting, and time in the woods weren't hobbies. They were just life.
That foundation stuck. Cayden still pushes himself physically—he placed top 20 worldwide in his age bracket for CrossFit—but the fitness serves the life, not the other way around. Strength means being ready for the work: hauling gear, processing harvests, staying useful in the field.
As Youth Ambassador for Eremos Collective, Cayden represents the next generation learning these skills. He's not here to preach about nature. He's here because he likes being outside, knows what he's doing out there, and figures others his age might want in.
Thera
"You are the salt of the earth."
Thera grew up in Elk, Washington—forest in every direction, horses, and the kind of childhood where you learn by doing. She came out of it with a love for simplicity and a practical knowledge of how to live close to the land.
Now she homeschools, keeps the household running, and feeds everyone. She's a self-taught cook who turns wild food and garden harvests into meals worth sitting down for. Her kitchen is where the foraging actually becomes dinner—where the chanterelles get cleaned, the venison gets braised, and the kids learn that food comes from somewhere.
Thera holds the center of what Eremos does. She's the steady hand, the encouragement when the work gets long, the one who makes sure the life we talk about is the life we're actually living.