D. Firth Griffith is a hunter-husbandman, storyteller, and award-winning indie author of four books. His latest book, Dark Cloud Country, came out in 2023 and won two INDIE Awards in Nature and Environment. Described as the poet laureate of the climate crisis by Allan Savory—the Zimbabwe-based originator of Regenerative Agriculture—he is the founder of Timshel Wildland, the largest rewilding and relational conservation project in the Eastern United States. Timshel's work was most recently featured in India’s largest progressive media organization, The Wire.

Daniel is also the co-founder and President of the Robinia Institute, a center for rewilding’s social emergence and the Mid-Atlantic's Educational Hub of the Savory Institute.

Daniel is the host of Denusion and writes regularly on Substack under Denuding the Illusion. He writes for Resilience.org, Permaculture Research Institute, Front Porch Republic, and the Stockman Grass Farmer, among others.

Daniel lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.

D. Firth Griffith is a hunter-husbandman, storyteller, and award-winning indie author of four books.

A first-generation agrarian, Firth's life pivoted when a life-threatening diagnosis with a degenerative genetic disease landed him in hospitals and therapy for nearly 4 years. After a multitude of failed surgeries and years spent learning how to walk again, Firth weighed less than he did in the 5th grade. At the end of his proverbial rope, Firth and his family turned to agriculture and relational conservationism as the last hope. What they found was instead a life complete and life once more.

In 2013, Firth's interest in the nourishing meeting ground between ecological systems and human origins culminated in the archeological assay of paleolithic cave art. In Nantes, France, Firth partnered with ONIRIS’ bioengineering department (Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering) to dig and examine paleoanthropology’s then budding insights into the formation and combination of early homo genetics in the Lascaux Cave System.

In 2016, Firth co-founded Timshel Wildland with his wife Morgan—a pioneering rewilding and relational conservation project that is leading the modern convergence of ecological restoration and wildly autonomous living yet harvestable systems. Alongside paradigm-challenging hydrologic and landform design systems, the Wildland has become home to grand multiplicities of wildlife—such as nesting black bear families, river otters once again in the Piedmont uplands, and the return of extinct species of mountain lions. In 2021, the Wildland opened a decentralized network of privately funded, human-scale, and ethical meat processing training abattoirs that utilize ancient field harvest techniques, whole-animal utilization, and a general lack of mechanization throughout. Timshel Wildland has been featured in many online magazines and news platforms, most recently on India’s largest progressive media organization, The Wire. Article link.

In 2018, Firth founded the Robinia Institute—a center for relational conservationism’s social emergence that is now the Mid-Atlantic Hub of the Savory Institute, a global organization and leader in the climate-change and ecological restoration sector. Robinia has emerged as one of the premier educators of ecological restoration and kincentric rewilding and yearly educates hundreds of students, designs and consults on hundreds of thousands of acres of lands, and monitors the ecology and wildlife diversity of hundreds of farms, from abandoned surface coal mines to localized homesteads of three acres.

In 2021, Firth indie published Wild Like Flowers: The Restoration of Relationship Through Regeneration, which won a Next Generation Indie Book Award in Nature and was described by Rosamund Young, the author of The Secret Life of Cows as “an outpouring, a sharing … of an entire new language.”

In 2023, Firth indie published Dark Cloud Country: The Four Relationships of Regeneration, which won a National Indie Excellence Award in both Nature and Environment and was described by James Canton, the author of The Oak Papers as “an impassioned celebration of life in all its complex wonderment.”

Firth is the host of Denusion and writes regularly on Substack under The Wildland Chronicles. He writes for Resilience.org, Permaculture Research Institute, Front Porch Republic, and the Stockman Grass Farmer, among others.

Daniel lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.

Recent Articles

1. 'Regenerative' Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay. @ Resilience.org
2. The Keeper, The Tiller, The Question. @ The Front Porch Republic
3. Shakespeare, Sonnets, and Stewardship: Why Ecological Problems Require Poetry. @ Resilience.org
4. Adaptive Epigenetics by Rewilding Livestock @ Permaculture Research Institute
5. Minerals and Natural Instincts. @ Permaculture Research Institute

Recent Podcasts

1. 'Why “Regenerative Agriculture” Is Not Enough" @ Wise Traditions: Weston A Price Foundation
2. How Regenerative, Are We Really? @ Kyle Kingsbury Podcast
3. Truculence with Gustin @ The Natural State Podcast