Discovering Wilderness is our adventure headquarters! We exist to equip, support and educate new and experienced adventurers with their journeys on and off the trail.

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We believe that a life is better with a frequent dose of adventure and time in the wilderness.

When you live a life of discovery, your mind, body and soul are renewed by every new outdoor experience.

Life in between adventures has new meaning when you take time to discover the wilderness around you, even in your own backyard.

Choose your own adventure:

  • We love a good meal while out on an adventure!

    The freezer bag cooking method is so simple and has so many benefits! The gear is light and so easy to use when out in the wilderness. We’ve got videos, instructional blogs and various freezer bag cooking gear, all on our Adventure Cooking section.

    Prefer to cook and eat out of your pot? We like this method too and have gear for you as well! Learn more about our new tall pot cozy, designed for meal time and storing your cook kit while on the move, in the quick video below.

    Adventure on!

  • Free To Be Wellness Services & Market

    Time outdoors is good for us body, mind and soul. In May of 2022, after two years of global upheaval and uncertainty, we’ve launched Free To be, the wellness division of Discovering Wilderness, to provide well-being services and goods.

    Free To Be Wellness creates opportunities for individuals and small groups to find rest, healing and clarity through individual services and group experiences. Services include mental health counseling, personal leadership coaching, and yoga instruction. Group experiences include classes, workshops and retreats.

    The Free To Be Market offers well-being products to support calmness and clarity, such as sugar scrubs, essential oil rollers and yoga mat bags, hand-made by Jessica Johnson.

    Get calm & clear!

  • Homesteading & Gardening

    Our love for the outdoors extends into our lifestyle and dreams for our future homestead. We are beginning homesteaders learning how to live more off the land. Learn more about our gardening approach and a few of our favorite recipes in our Homesteading section.

    If you make a batch of our Sweet & Spicy Pickles, Lemon Poppy Seed Summer Squash Bread or Thai Chicken Trail Noodles, let us know what you think!

    Need something to sooth dry or rough skin after all that time in the garden or on the trail? Check out our natural sugar scrub that can be used all over the outer body, scented with organic essential oils and natural spices.

    Let's get growing!

Feed Your Adventurous Side

 

Check out our new pot cozy!

Insta Adventures!

First snow of the season was just beautiful! ❄️⛄️🥶 Sure the power outages add some hassle…but it means time for more fires in the wood stove, animal tracks visible all over our property and starting to look into local options for snowshoeing!
Our next big batch of cozies made especially for @outdoorherbivore are looking so good! I just love the two prints Kim picked. The blue has a fun gold splatter on it, which is hard to see in the picture and I know you’ll love when it is in your
We just had to get outside this week! With night temps dropping, this week seemed like the right time to sneak in an adventure before winter settles in. With our big cross country move this past year we didn’t get out for any backpacking or c
Such a beautiful fall day! The change in season is such a good reminder that it is okay to work hard and be busy some part of the year and to enjoy slower more restful seasons of life as well. . . . #naturelovers #exploring #fallleaves🍁🍂 #wilderne
What do you get when you mix Jessica‘s love for snowboarding and DJ’s love for skateboarding??? Mountainboarding!!! We both got boards this past month and are enjoying figuring out how to maneuver them around some simple grass slopes. .
This weekend has been my first good opportunity to do some canning. Yesterday we made dill pickles and today we made some salsa. Even though we just did small batches because of limited time and energy it feels satisfying! Now to figure out what to d
It’s so fun digging up buried treasure! We have way more garlic than we need and a great collection of red potatoes for the year. Our neighbor has never harvested potatoes so we invited her to come share in the fun. Thanks for your help friend!
It is almost garlic harvesting time! I pulled one yesterday to check the bulb size…and it is great! The ground patch of garlic is dryer than the one in the raised bed so we will be picking, (hopefully) braiding and hanging them tomorrow mornin
Today makes Day #1 in the 2024 PA Blueberry Wars!🪲🫐Team Jessica seems to be in the lead but Team Japanese Beetles made a good first attack on the smallest of three bushes, going for the underdog first! I ended up picking 2 pounds of berries and abo
It’s another kitchen experiment day! Today I tried a low sugar no pectin freezer strawberry jam today recipe. 🍓😋 🇺🇸 The recipe suggested using EZ Gel (or something else similar) to thicken the mixture. I’m quite curious to see how it
🇺🇸🧨🎉😁🎊Happy Independence Day from PA! It’s fun to live in a town again that puts on a big parade and vendor festival…and have neighbors that will let us borrow their cornhole set! We’ve got fireworks tonight, grilling tomorro
It’s a busy time of the year here! This giant encyclopedia of country living from DJ and these amazing yard work overalls from my mom are really coming in handy this spring! #newadventures #newadventure #tryingsomethingnew #homesteading #back