About Carleigh

Carleigh Fairchild has had a dream of homesteading her whole life. From the time she was three years old and her aunt and uncle started a farm, she has wanted to live on a farm. The dream has evolved over the years, and now it includes wildcrafting, earth skills, and teaching others how to connect more deeply with themselves, others, and the earth. Connection that leads to caring for ourselves and being a caretaker of the earth. Everywhere Carleigh has lived she has grown a garden, tended to animals if it was allowed and strived to find connection with place.

Carleigh lives her life as a journey, taking each adventure and living it to the fullest. As a teenager Carleigh spent every summer learning earth skills at the Children of the Earth Foundation. From the very beginning she loved starting fires, building shelters, processing animal hides, and weaving baskets. It was through these skills that Carleigh found peace and connection with the world. After turning 18, she moved to Washington state to continue studying earth skills at Earthwalk Northwest and successfully completed the Skills Apprenticeship, Ethnobotany Apprenticeship, Basketry Series, and the Path of the Hunter program. In 2009 Carleigh first tested herself by solo backpacking 500 miles through Washington state on the Pacific Crest Trail. In 20013 Carleigh began studying Niaszhii Healing at wildernessFusion. And in 2016 she lived solo for 86 days and filmed herself as part of History Channel’s TV series Alone, Season 3.

Carleigh is currently a nanny, practitioner of NIASZIIH healing, earth skills instructor, public speaker, and an ambassador for LT Wright Handcrafted Knives.

Today Carleigh is searching in Western North Carolina for a piece of land to be a caretaker of, a place to grow food, teach others, and put down roots after 15 years of wandering. All sales from classes she offers, and items sold in the shop go towards her land fund, and if you feel called to donate it will be received with much gratitude!