Sky Meadow Mystery School - Harvest 2024
Wed, Aug 21
|Sky Meadow Retreat
A free work-exchange opportunity to work the land and learn the mythopoeic arts
Time & Location
Aug 21, 2024, 2:00 PM – Aug 28, 2024, 2:00 PM
Sky Meadow Retreat, 63 Winchester Rd, Greensboro Bend, VT 05842, USA
About the event
August 21, 2024, 2:00 PM – August 28, 2024, 2:00 PM
The Sky Meadow Mystery School is a free, week-long residential immersion into wholesome work and Deep Play in Vermont’s beautiful Northeast Kingdom.
Our theme at the 2024 Harvest Mystery School is memento mori ergo carpe diem; “remember death and therefore seize the day.” For millennia there has existed an underground, countercultural perspective on mortality; life as the Art of Being Well-Remembered. The Mystery School embodies this philosophy through a balanced program of practical homesteading skills and creative, mythopoetic exploration.
Between 10am–12pm and 2–4pm each day, you will learn (or hone) harvest skills such as crop gathering, apple picking, wood stacking, and produce canning: all vital, down-to-Earth tasks as the full-time residents of the Sky Meadow Retreat Center prepare for the winter months. No prior homesteading experience is necessary, but Scholars should be comfortable doing active outdoors work and come…