Wild Potomac

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Wild Potomac

Helping people and wildlife thrive together

Wild Potomac is dedicated to restoring the Potomac River and its watershed to health and abundance.

Our work invites people to deepen their relationships with the ecosystems around them through reciprocal giving and receiving.

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Wild Potomac envisions a Potomac River watershed restored to health and vitality, where people and wildlife not only co-exist, but thrive together in relationship. People act as a keystone species, meeting their needs in ways that build community, biodiversity, and abundance. 

We serve this vision by providing opportunities for people to enter into relationships of mutual nourishment with wildlife and each other. Our projects — harvesting and sharing wild food, planting and tending community forest gardens, and greening urban spaces — benefit people and wildlife directly. But they also heal the relationships between people and ecosystems by fostering experiences of connected giving and receiving. 

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Events

Our events bring people together to PLANT, TEND, GATHER, and SHARE across the Mid-Atlantic.

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Bioregional Projects

Get involved with one of our projects aimed to build connection between people and our shared landscape.

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Blog

Wild Potomac’s blog shares calls to action and explores deeper questions about how we can heal our relationships with ecosystems and each other.

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A man reaching up to grab a branch from a cluster of trees with people gathered in front of him watching.

An indoor gathering inside of a barn with a long table covered in buckets and tins filled with tree foods, surrounded on all sides by people who are serving themselves from the different containers.
A large gathering of people outside planting into a terraced hillside. The focus is on a woman with red sunglasses and a child in a yellow shirt as they both lean over the hole they are digging. The child is holding a small shovel, and the woman is smiling and watching him.

A person leaning in and hovering over a shrub looking at it closely while a different person grabs the plant, showing its features.

A green caterpillar stretched out on a long leaflet.

Two people working together to stake a new tree sapling to a post to support it to grow.