Welcome to
A WildCrafted Life
It's Never Too Late to Rewrite Your Story
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Our mission is to empower and nurture our community's well-being through a holistic approach that encompasses the traditional skills of mindset, movement, nutrition, sustainability on the homestead. Through sustainable practices, age-old skills and active engagement, we seek to create a community that thrives physically, mentally, and emotionally while fostering a strong connection to the land and each other.
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This is for the adventurous Wild Ones that are pulled by a spirit of rugged individualism, community reliance, and a desire to become resilient.
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We encourage the community to approach challenges with resilience, adaptability, and a growth-oriented perspective. Here you will find education, empowerment and straight up adventure as you learn to REWILD your life, homestead and your health and fitness journey. We have virtual and onsite classes, courses, workshops, recovery rooms, functional health coaching, retreats and more covering subjects and activities related to:
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Legacy Building
Health
Adventure
Sustainability
Mindset
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You're now entering the WILD SIDE!
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Steve and Sandy
From broken beginnings to a life overflowing with purpose, our story is one of redemption, resilience, and the transformative power of love. We're Steve and Sandy, and we've spent the last 39 years crafting a life as rich and vibrant as the Tennessee wilderness we now call home. Today, we stand not as perfect examples, but as living testaments to the power of resilience, faith, and the courage to rewrite your own story.
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We believe that everyone has the power to craft a life of purpose, adventure, and deep fulfillment.
Our path hasn't always been smooth, but it's always been ours.
Teaching others first started with us...
Steve's journey began on a 40-acre farm, where childhood should have been idyllic but instead was marred by abuse and neglect. At 13, he chose the uncertain freedom of the streets over the known pain of home. His path led through ditches and jail cells, fueled by addiction and a death wish. But even in the darkest moments, hope wasn't extinguished. Through a divine encounter, Steve found redemption and a new purpose.
Sandy's story started in a single-parent home, her childhood consumed by the rigorous world of competitive gymnastics. While her peers were playing, she was training, missing out on the carefree moments of youth but gaining a steely determination that would serve her well in the adventures to come.
We met when Sandy was 18 - a wild boy and a good girl, an unlikely pair united by a shared vision of a life lived with purpose. Married at 20, we embarked on a journey that has spanned nearly four decades, five children, ten grandchildren, and more adventures than we can count.
We've built businesses, pastored a church, homeschooled for 27 years, and now, we're pioneering the East Tennessee Homestead Alliance. Each step of the way, we've been cultivating what we call a "wildcrafted life" - a life intentionally designed, nurtured with care, and allowed to flourish naturally.
Your Journey into the WILD
Classes and Courses
SELF
SUFFICIENCY
Learning how to be self sufficient and community reliant is key to creating security in an unstable world.
We have hired some of the best teachers in their respective fields of self sufficiency. If you desire to increase your knowledge of survival skills, homesteading, animal husbandry and so much more then these classes/courses/
workshops are for you.
Meet Your
Functional Health Team
Our Functional Health Team uses an holistic approach to treat chronic disease, autoimmune disorders, inflammation and more with a focus on nutrition, habit coaching and behavioral change. Utilizing your medical history and our HiPAA compliant DNA testing we help you heal from the inside out.
Let us help you take the guesswork out of your healing journey.
Get started today.
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