Earthwork Harvest Gathering

10/20/2024

Thank you all so much for how you have poured your hearts into our community through 22 years of the Earthwork Harvest Gathering. May we continue to connect and grow. May these ripples continue to spread where they need to go. We send our deepest gratitude and wish you all love and blessings. See you down the road.

09/29/2024

Beautiful story by Jacob Wheeler, reminding us even though Harvest Gathering has come to an end, we will meet again 🎶

The curtain closed on Earthwork Harvest Gathering this weekend.

09/26/2024

CELL PHONE FOUND!
Message us if you lost a phone at Harvest Gathering!

09/23/2024

The sun has risen on a chilly morning. Children run and play on the dewy grass, while adults who wish for that boundless energy blearily begin the work of cleaning up and returning the grounds to a working farm.

Up till 4 am, singing hearts out in the barn or around the fire, but now life returns to normal, and we must find ways to bring the spirit of this place into our everyday lives.

Earthwork Harvest Gathering has been a turning point in the calendar since 2001.
But now we take that spirit of cooperation, collaboration and lifelong learning out into a world where we have to balance our realities and our ideals, while knowing we aren't returning here like this again to refill our cups to the brim with love, light and music.

Now the cows and the bees need tending just as much as our hearts. Life goes on. It's up to you to make the most of it.

Thank you for being a part of our story.
And we will see each other again.

📝 Chad Michael Wedeven

09/22/2024

🍔 CALL TO ACTION FRIENDS!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT BOB’S BURGERS!

STOP BY THE KITCHEN TO HELP!

09/21/2024

Courtney Miller smudging the grounds this morning.

📸 by Vanessa Clark

09/21/2024

Day one of the final Earthwork Harvest Gathering is in the books.

Now we enter Saturday: the biggest, grandest, busiest day of our fellowship.

There's still time to buy a day pass and join your people for an unforgettable whirlwind of music, food, and soul enrichment.

We're drinking out of a firehose of love, and we want you with us. 💕

Maybe we should have called this year the Reaping: we're bringing it all back home.

📝 Chad Michael Wedeven

09/20/2024

The sun has risen on the first day of the last Earthwork Harvest Gathering. ☀️

The cars and trucks are pouring into the grounds. The smell of fresh coffee and new mown hay fills the air. Reunions are around every bend in the winding farm lanes.

Sound checks are locking in the sound, preparing for the imminent explosion of melody from three stages.

The vendors and volunteers raise their tarps, lay out their wares or their workshop materials, getting ready for a busy day under the northern sun.

Music starts at 3:00pm, so there is still time to come up and join us on Earthwork Farm in Lake City for a weekend you won't soon forget.

Harvest rocks. Literally… here is longtime volunteer Timothy Young standing on the giant rock he placed in this field himself.

Come soak in the rays of the last summer sunshine.

📝 Chad Michael Wedeven
🌄 Timothy Young

09/19/2024

ICYMI… Seth on yesterday’s segment of Good Day Northern Michigan. 🍁 🎶 ✌🏼

Check out featured local stories from Good Day Northern Michigan's Wednesday, Sept. 18 edition.

09/18/2024

‘After the Tone: A Place to Honor the Gathering.’

This interactive installation calls upon those that have attended Harvest Gathering and are looking for somewhere to send their gratitude and memories as this chapter comes to an end. Find the tent in The Commons this weekend and leave a message on the blue “rotary phone” where your message will be recorded. Each side of the four-sided pyramid tent will feature a painted motif that symbolizes a different gift from past Harvest Gatherings. The gifts can be interpreted as: growing together through art & play, honoring & protecting the Earth, remembering purpose, and restoring balance with reflection.

Concept and painting by Pia Lu

09/18/2024

Thank you to our friends at the Northern Express for the coverage!

09/18/2024

One More Harvest Waltz, courtesy of Neil Woodward 🎻🎶

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09/17/2024

A post of ICE AND FIRE 🧊 🔥

It is going to be a warm, beautiful and DRY weekend!

With that in mind, we’d like to remind you about fire safety…

Charcoal grills and candles are not permitted, as they pose a fire hazard. The only fires permitted on the farm are those operated by Earthwork.

If you are a smoker, be extra cautious about where your ashes land, and make sure your stub is completely out before tossing it in the proper receptacle.

Now onto the ice…

This year, thanks to Roo and our wonderful volunteers, ice will be available for sale!

Look for the ice cart driving around the farm, or ask a volunteer where you can purchase a bag!

For a complete list of what is permitted, check out our FAQs page.

https://earthworkharvestgathering.com/faq/

📸 Liz Tiffany, Roo

09/16/2024

Workshops at Harvest Gathering! So much to learn and so many awesome offerings from good humans. Which will you be attending?

09/14/2024

One more time. We will roll through the gates, claim our campsite, pitch our tents or unfurl our RVs, then take a walk "downtown" to check out the raffle, the Mercantile, and Bob's Burgers.

After Aaron Otto's benedictory flute sounds off, the music will start, the workshops will convene in the woods, the vendors will sell their wares, and the people will run into a zillion friends, new or old.

There will be events in the future on these hallowed grounds, but they won't be the Earthwork Harvest Gathering as we know and love it.

So please. Come join us, one more time, to dance a waltz with the autumn as she twirls in her glorious finery.

📸 Ted Bergin, Vincent Brady Photography, Liz Tiffany
📝 Chad Michael Wedeven

09/09/2024

We’re rounding up programs and logo designs from years past for an install and we could use your help filling some gaps! Does anybody have photos or scans from 2004, 2007, or 2009??

09/09/2024

For decades now, retreats, residencies, and small events have taken place on Earthwork Farm, bringing folks together to learn, grow, heal and connect. Your support of Earthwork Harvest Gathering has helped support so much more here on the farm. We’ve hosted artists and activists from all over the world with our residencies. Our retreats have provided support and sancutary for individuals and organizations doing frontline community care work. Small events like Family Weekend and Skill Swap have helped folks and their families learn new things and make new old friends while deepening their connection with the land and a creative process. All of this continues on thanks to your support through the years.