Friday-Sunday, October 17-19
(Re)Connect with Mother Earth
We'll gather in person at Cedar Valley Retreat Center, West Bend, WI, Our keynote is Kerry Hagy, Executive Director of the South Haven (MI) Center for the Arts.
Sage is our Lead for this event.
Our Keynote Speaker Kerry Hagy is a naturalist, arts administrator and gardener working on a 16-acre permaculture project at her home in Southwest Michigan with her husband three cats. She has certifications and experience in permaculture design, fruit and vegetable farming, and community gardening, mushroom foraging. Kerry has experience in community organizing and advocacy in both urban and rural communities. She has a love for food preservation and cooking, and an art making process that includes waste-streamed and natural materials.
Kerry will share the first ten years of her permaculture project, while highlighting easy ways to connect with nature through a gardening practice that focuses on observation with minimal intervention, perennials, self-seeding annuals, native plants, and foraging plants and mushrooms.
LOCATION
We will again meet at Cedar Valley Retreat Center near West Bend, Wisconsin. We enjoyed the food last year, and it is a cozy and comfortable space.
Cedar Valley is 100 acres of pastoral beauty nestled in the h
eart of Washington County, just a short drive north of the metro Milwaukee area. Your creative spirit will soar while walking the beautiful trails, or enjoying a sunset. There are abundant indoor and outdoor recreation opportunities. You can attend workshops, enjoy thoughtfully sourced and prepared meals, and simply relax.
