Events Calendar

The ability to share powerful stories lies at the heart of river advocacy work. Too often we rely on statistics and facts to do the work of protecting our watersheds, when what the public needs to hear are stories that inspire and engage them to act.

This workshop will help river advocates to deepen their ability to see, hear, frame, and share compelling river stories. Sharing our stories can educate our communities, magnetize volunteers and support, strengthen collaboration and partnerships, and help us protect our watersheds. This workshop is part of the 2-day Georgia Rivers Conference.

For more information, go to www.garivers.org

This Conservation in a New Nation workshop is designed specifically to strengthen the conservation work of the Peconic Land Trust by helping it to build wider and deeper community collaborations. This is a two-day workshop for the land trust's staff, board and allies, by invitation.

Join New Jersey Alumni and colleagues for a 3-day retreat in Burlington, NJ, to deepen our capacity for whole communities work and strengthen connections across sectors and our state.

Together, we will deepen our understanding of the ways race, power and privilege impact our institutions and communities; dialogue about transformative leadership; and deepen Whole Thinking skills. We'll also take field trips to experience whole communities work on the ground.

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This Conservation in a New Nation workshop is designed specifically to strengthen the conservation work of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust by helping it to build wider and deeper community collaborations. This is a two-day workshop for the land trust's staff, board and allies, by invitation.

The purpose of our story workshop curriculum is to bring the power of narrative into visionary leadership. This workshop will help us support one another to find our voice, to use shared language, and to harness the power of story not only in our lives but in our leadership. It will help us to hear the stories of others, and to form a more inclusive, informed understanding of our work in the world. We will look at what it means to lead through story, through our deepest values.

This Conservation in a New Nation workshop is tailored to the work and concerns of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and will be held in partnership with their staff.

The purpose of our story workshop curriculum is to bring the power of narrative into visionary leadership. This workshop will help us support one another to find our voice, to use shared language, and to harness the power of story not only in our lives but in our leadership. It will help us to hear the stories of others, and to form a more inclusive, informed understanding of our work in the world. We’ll look at what it means to lead through story, through our deepest values.

Stay tuned for workshop time and cost; this workshop will be held at Knoll Farm, with all meals and accomodation included. Registration for this event will open in February.

In these difficult economic times, philanthropists are having to examine more than ever their focus and approach in order to carry out their mission. Come to this workshop to be with a small cohort of philanthropists and funders to explore what transformational grantmaking could look like today.

Stay tuned for workshop time and cost; this workshop will be held at Knoll Farm, with all meals and accomodation included. Registration for this event will open in February.

This workshop will explore our connection to land through energy and the impacts that it has on our communities. Starting with our place in New England, we will journey down the spine of the Appalachian mountain range to the coalfields in the Southeast. Through ecology, culture, music and economic development, the story of Appalachia will be told, as one of our country's sharpest examples of the consequences that industrial resource extraction perpetuates on natural and social communities. Solutions will be studied and practiced through the principles of regenerative design and how it can harness the power of visions to develop healthier communities.

Registration for this event will open in February.

Knoll Farm's Harvest and Courage Celebration will this year focus on Story as a fundamental source through which we can access and understand our individual and collective creativity, power, and courage. This will be a day filled with music, art, poetry, story, the harvest of the land, and the community of others. Free and open to the public.

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The purpose of our story workshop curriculum is to bring the power of narrative into visionary leadership. This workshop will help us support one another to find our voice, to use shared language, and to harness the power of story not only in our lives but in our leadership. It will help us to hear the stories of others, and to form a more inclusive, informed understanding of our work in the world. We will look at what it means to lead through story, through our deepest values.

This open workshop is made possible with the generous support of the Ruth Mott Foundation.

The purpose of our story workshop curriculum is to bring the power of narrative into visionary leadership. This workshop will help us support one another to find our voice, to use shared language, and to harness the power of story not only in our lives but in our leadership. It will help us to hear the stories of others, and to form a more inclusive, informed understanding of our work in the world. We will look at what it means to lead through story, through our deepest values.

Our annual gathering of faculty from around the country.

The Whole Thinking Retreat convenes leaders from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Together participants develop a shared vision for how the relationship between people and the land can become a more effective force in creating a healthy and just American culture. Our curriculum - now in it's sixth year - is designed to rejuvenate and re-envision leadership, to build meaningful relationships, to help leaders to engage more meaningfully in the communities they serve, and to develop the competence to heal the very real divides of race, power, privilege and ideology that keep lasting social and environmenal change from happening in this country.

This is a fellowship-based retreat, by invitation.

Click here for more information on our retreats.

This retreat is specifically designed for leaders concerned with or working in the fields of place-based and environmental education in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire. Now in its fourth year, this semi-annual retreat is building a strong and integrated network of leaders who are working in the same community to protect the environment, empower and educate youth, address social concerns and build alliances across divides.

This is a fellowship-based retreat, supported by the Wellborn Ecology Fund and by invitation.

A retreat for business, environmental, political, educational and public health leaders in New Hampshire to find common ground, common purpose and common courage in tackling one of the major issues of our day. Sponsored by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and by invitation.

The Whole Thinking Retreat convenes leaders from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Together participants develop a shared vision for how the relationship between people and the land can become a more effective force in creating a healthy and just American culture. Our curriculum - now in it's sixth year - is designed to rejuvenate and re-envision leadership, to build meaningful relationships, to help leaders to engage more meaningfully in the communities they serve, and to develop the competence to heal the very real divides of race, power, privilege and ideology that keep lasting social and environmenal change from happening in this country.

This is a fellowship-based retreat, by invitation.

Click here for more information on our retreats.

Now in its fourth year, this retreat provides seniors at UVM with an opportunity to explore issues of diversity, power, and privilege and the implications of these topics on environmental fields and their own lives. The retreat gives students time to reflect on their purpose and intentions as they make the transition to life-after-college and seek courage to create a life that is in alignment with their vision for the world.

Because of the great success of Bill Coperthwaite's annual spoon and bowl workshops, we often have requests for a knife making workshop. To continue honoring our tradition of handcrafts, we are offering a workshop that encourages our friends and alumni to create a beautiful knife with which to carve their spoons, bowls, and all.

This workshop will focus on making a crooked knife or straight knife with Birch, Maple or Butternut handle. We will provide the carving blades and wood, and the class with focus on drilling/mortising the end of the handle and epoxy the blade in the mortise. The majority of your time will be designing and carving the shape of the handle and then fitting the blade.

The instructor, Taz Squire, has apprenticed with Bill Coperthwaite since he was learning to walk. Taz began his knife-making at a young age by digging for root burls to make knife handles.

All materials and tools will be provided to create a complete a knife by the end of the day. You are encouraged to bring your own favorite wood and tools, if desired. Hot beverage and water will be provided in our warm workshop. Bring your own lunch.

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In this workshop we will go through tips for successful lambing with very little infrastructure or intervention. Our purebred Icelandic ewes live outside year-round, deliver their lambs in the field, and are an incredible low-maintenance asset to our farm. We will talk about raising sheep in general, breeding, grazing management, and how to start a flock.

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Knoll Farm has a half-acre of organic highbush blueberries, established in 2002 and thriving. This is a popular workshop every year. Come learn all about siting, planting, pruning, and caring for highbush blueberries, and have a chance to pick-your-own from 7 different varieties after the workshop.

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One of the many ways that humans strengthen their connection to land and place is through making sacred the daily act of harvesting and eating. Since the dawn of time, humans have actively participated in the food chain in a way that also interweaves beliefs, values, traditions and sacred ceremony -- cultivating deep relationships with the plants, animals and fungi that nourish them.

Join us for this day-long ceremony as we talk about some of the ways, in the modern world, we might continue to honor a sacred bond to the harves. We will honor, harvest, prepare, and enjoy a feast from the bounty and abundance of Knoll Farm. As part of this process we will be slaughtering one of Knoll Farms' lambs and cooking it in a traditional way in an outdoor oven, learning the skills and honoring the practice of each step along the way.

Registration for this event will open in February.