About

Urban Scout has a wisdom and intelligence far beyond his years. He is helping us move away from this culture of death and toward a sane culture that will not kill the planet.
- Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame

When I feel like surfing a bit nearer the edge, I check out Scout’s latest. It’s irreverent, angry, informative, and sometimes he’s not even nice. Urban Scout is out there exploring and inventing rewilding and contemporary tribal skills with style, and I admire that he doesn’t claim to know it all. Scout always takes me down an unanticipated path. We civilized folk have forgotten what he’s trying to remember for us.
- Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Urban Scout combines passion, intelligence, and a quirky sense of humor, and puts it all at the feet of the most important cause any of us could undertake–rewilding ourselves, our environments, and our relationships. And he even manages to look cool while doing it.
- Jason Godesky from Tobys People

My parents named me Peter but people ’round these parts call me Urban Scout. Over a decade ago I began to realize that the agrarian civilized lifestyle would not reach a point of sustainability. The more I studied hunter-gatherers, the more intriuged I became as to how they lived in such an egalitarian, sustainable manner. I decided to make it my life goal to live as a hunter-gatherer. I call this process rewilding. As a cultural creative and multi-disciplinary artist, I have a duty to inspire others to find rewilding. Many physical, emotional, social, philosophical and existential difficulties arise as we attempt to rewild ourselves from brainwashed childhoods raised to work as a wage slave in a coffee shop, into the lifestyle of indigenous hunter-gatherer families, living with the land in a sustainable way.

Living as a hunter-gather, I quickly found, means much more than wearing animals skins and hunting with a bow. It means much more than the level of technology I use, but the family social systems and larger land management practices. Hunter-gatherers have a deeper connection to family and land than most “modern” people understand or can even begin to understand. While much of my site has to do with physical “skills” it has more to do with these other teachings and ways of seeing the world and relating to each other.

On this website, I catalog the hunter-gatherer-grower adventures that occur in rewilding. Part fact/part fiction, part man/part myth, I work to spread authentic sustainability by changing peoples world view. On this site you may find a photo guide to skinning and cooking a squirrel, a rant about “Science vs. Tracking,” a Q&A about apocalyptic safe sex, read Scout’s book in progress about rewilding, a review of the latest media concerning the collapse of civilization or simply a weekly journal about the trials and tribulations of going against the grain.