Tile & me: Jannine Barron

MY TILE + ME

What’s your name?

Jannine Barron

https://www.instagram.com/janninebarronmentor
https://janninebarron.com/

What’s your What3Words tile?

I have two at Waterfall on the Lugg and love the names. They add richness to my subscriptions. My first one is chief.soft.freely and my second is providing.imported.health.  I was also gifted one, which is in Hilltop Corner by the 2024 Growth Experience Participants, which is leans.round.bookmark, so I feel very connected to Wild Mosaic with so many tiles.

I am also a serial gifter of tiles, as I think this is the best gift ever.

QUESTIONS

What does wildness mean to you?

It is the free will to stay connected to my wild, sensing self, intuitive self. To feel life as a constant presence in how I listen, make decisions and lead. 

Growing up in Australia, I played in the bush as a young child, navigated the wilderness as a teenager, and, in my twenties, lived off-grid in the hills, learning to survive from the land, to find food, and to sit with silence. I did it for the love of it, but it gave me something I didn't have a name for then: a foundation. 

In my forties, I returned through deep healing walks that renewed my health and allowed me to remember what I had always known: that I could come back to myself in any situation, anywhere, any time. Even on a computer. Even in a city.

Wild means carrying that freedom still. Not as something to travel to find, but as a living thread running through everything I am and everything I do, as present in a business meeting as in old-growth forest, always accessible, always underneath, the deep root system of a self that was never truly separate from the living world, however much the noise of modern life would have me believe otherwise. 

Wildness is how intuition is nurtured, how we stay connected, and how we come to honour our interconnection with all of life.

What first drew you to Wild Mosaic? It was an instant, wholehearted yes. An empowering choice and inner knowing that this was an affordable, easy way that Jon had created for me to contribute and engage with rewilding with immediate and important impact. 

Can you describe your relationship to your tile?

Happy, Connected, Intuitive, Empowering, giggly.

And how do you bring more wildness into your life?

It is with me always. Every day with the moon, my garden, my walks, my decisions, my work. All my decisions and choices. Everything. 

SPECIAL QUESTION: If you could be a ‘Wild Thing’, what would you be?

I am water, air, earth and fire, and look for the moments where I can feel the alchemy of being all of them at once; The Aether. 

Become a rewilder

Whether you’re longing to reconnect with wildness or wanting to deepen your relationship with the landscape you call home, Wild Mosaic is a simple way to become part of Britain’s rewilding story.

Your 3m x 3m tile will support the restoration of wilder life. You’ll receive regular updates about your tile’s transformation, watch as drainage ditches become ponds, and witness land burst back into life season after season.

Join our 130+ strong community of rewilders and claim your own patch of wildness today.

www.wildmosaic.eco/adopt-a-plot