The Regenerative Field is a literal field, or veld * : a garden full of flowers, foods and medicinal herbs on a piece of land that lays between the domestic and the wild. The Regenerative Field also speaks to our ever-present, vital, continuously circulating energetic field of being and belonging: the place from which all healing comes from and to which all healing goes.
* The veld, from Martin Prechtel’s The Unlikely Peace: “To keep our Agreement with the Wild there has be a veld, a territory of uninhabited land neither wholly wild nor under cultivation, running along the edge of the Wild as a buffer zone between activities of civilization and the sacred off-limits home of the Holy in the Wild. The original word field or feld did not mean what it means now, but signified the last furrow plowed and left planted for the wild, not to be harvested by humans, on the other side of which resided the uncultivated ‘Wild.’ The veld therefore was where the human domestication of the wild and the wild would parlay and have a place in common. It was there that all the rituals were made to feed the Holy in the Wild to keep the domesticated ‘fields’ filled with the vitality of the Holy in the Wild. The veld is the feast table where we feed the Holy in the Wild.”
