Christie Green spends days at a time in the mountains, in the snow, tracking elk, solo. Her hunting journey began at 40 as a practical way to feed herself and her family, and became a fierce and fluid exploration of womanhood, motherhood, stewardship, intuition, listening and kinship. Christie wrote a memoir about her experiences called Moonlight Elk that I rapturously devoured, licking my fingertips with every turn of the page, it is that delicious. 

🦌 Terrain covered:

Life in Sante Fe, New Mexico

Hunting as a deep and embodied exploration of just about everything.

Listening to other than human perspectives as a landscape architect

Designing for soil, water, animal, pollination; landscapes in service of wild nature

Learning to hunt at 40

Weaving values into business

How to catch dreams

Why would you want to hunt alone?

Being an “other-centred” person

Following desire and intuition

The extreme paradox of loving and killing

Defying categories and boxes

Are there better and worse ways to hunt?

Could and should everyone hunt?

Communal local food relationships

Walking in fear as a woman, as prey

Dreams as soul expression

Writing sex scenes that feature yourself

The choiceless choice of creativity

🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS

Christie’s home on the web

Christie on Instagram

Get your mitts on Moonlight Elk (note: you can buy it anywhere, or ask your library for copies)

Moonlight Elk audiobook

Selected essays by Christie Green

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