JUSTLIVING FARM - Artful Land Practices
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Group Farm Stays
Our goal at the JustLiving Farm is to provide your group with an experience they will never forget. During the last half century, the number of people living and working on farms has dropped to fewer than two percent of the American population. During a stay, your group has the opportunity remember the farm of their ancestors by experiencing the landscape through working and playing with soil, animals, and plants; through developing a keener sense of how their food is planted, raised, and harvested; and, by learning how to ask questions of themselves, their environment, and the relationship between the two.
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A Group Stay is a simple experience. Spend time on the farm and pay attention to the soil,
Suggested Schedule
Sunday
3 - 8pm: Arrive
6pm: Dinner
10pm: Lights out
Monday - Thursday
6am: Wake Up/Showers/Prep. Breakfast
7am: Breakfast/Make Lunches/Cleanup
8am: Conversations/Workshop
9-12pm:This time is designed in conversation with you to specifically meet your groups needs.
12-1pm: Lunch
1-3pm: Same as the 9-12 slot. Irrigation? Fence Building? Care for animals?
3-5pm: Open TIme--Reservation Outings
5-6pm: Dinner Prep
6-8pm: Dinner and Cleanup
6-10pm: On your own
10pm: Lights out
Friday
6am: Wake Up/Showers/Prep. Breakfast
7am: Breakfast
8am: Cleanup
11am: Head Home
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Quick Overview
• Kitchen, showers, and toilets are outside. While you are not camping, this is a time to reconnect with the environment, the land, and the wind..
• All meals are in community. Should folk other than your group are at the Mission at the same time, everyone prepare, eat, and cleanup meals together,
• JustLiving is a working farm. Each morning you will have an opportunity to partake in a 1-2hr workshop or conversation on the Yakama landscape: nature, environment, wind, soil, water.
• Everyone at the Farm will help individuals and the groups as a whole to engage self-reflection.
• There are no absolutes at the Farm concerning thought and belief. Our goal is to create a space where you (individual and group) have the opportunity to learn, think, and discuss issues concerning your relationship with the landscape.
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Group Rates per Person for 2013
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A Word about Your Farmers
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1 day stay $50 (Families--please contact us for special family rates.)
Summer (May 29 - August 31)
1-2 day stay - 1 workshops: $150
4-5 day stay - 3-4 workshops $280
(A day begins at 1 pm and ends at ends at 12 pm the next day.)
Rates include lodging, and workshops/conversations.
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What should we call them, farmers, trainers, conversation partners? Take your pick. Most importantly, the folks whom you will work with simply have a love for the landscape, creation, and justice.
Formally:
Belinda holds a Master in Social Work and her vocation is with Hospice patients, After-school youth, MSW students.
Dave holds a Master in Theology and his vocation is writing, public speaking, Art , and Landscape theology.
Dave and Belinda were raised in rural communities. Growing up with cattle and horses, the land became a part of their being. In a day with them you will learn and converse about how the landscape is truly and intimately part of every human. If you have had trouble finding the dirt of your bones, they will help you find it! |
CALL US! and let us work with you to develop an experience designed
specifically
for your group.
(509) 969-2093 or email
dave@justlivingfarm.org |
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