The Wild Route: Leaving Work and Home for a Forest Life

The video “The Wild Route: Leaving Work and Home for a Forest Life” is a news video by Sky Dylan-Robbins published on the NBC Left Field website in 2018. The video discusses the life of a group of people who live in the woods in North Carolina. 

The video begins with Todd, one of the main subjects of the news story, saying that he realized he would spend his life waiting for the weekend or his next vacation. He says people are no longer able to provide for themselves. Todd, a former engineer, lives in a community called Wild Roots, where people do not follow traditional societal rules. Todd has been living there for eleven years. His girlfriend Erica and her eight-year-old daughter May also live in the community. The video shows several images of May walking through the forest, or of Todd, drinking water directly from t...