UPDATE: There is one ticket available to dinner in the vineyard. Please email alessandra@gatheringgroundwi.org to purchase it. Gathering Ground announces its 4th annual Dinner in the Vineyard on Friday, July 21, beginning at 4 P.M. This year the event features...
April 22 – 10 am at Heron Home, Washington Island. Is it a coincidence that Earth Day falls during National Poetry Month? We think not. Celebrate both this Earth Day with a Poetry Workshop. Contemplate the beauty of the world around us through poetry. A...
Gathering Ground is beginning to offer regularly scheduled gardening workshops this year each Thursday at 9:30 am May 25 – July 27, with occasional Thursdays in August and September. Workshops will be primarily led by Russell Rolffs, but also occasional guests....
GG is several years into answering the question: can you grow chestnuts in northern Wisconsin? When we started the project, I thought our biggest strike against us was our minimum winter temperatures. But the only time we have had significant tree die-off is the when...
Calling all gardeners who wish for more sunlight, a leg up on summer gardening, or some friends to do their gardening with: Gathering Ground is starting a community vegetable and herb garden this spring, 2023! Gathering Ground is going into its seventh growing...
Ground School was awareded a grant from SARE, a departement of the USDA, that focuses on Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education. The grant of $5,800 will go to support the educational goals of Ground School. Of the 69 proposals submitted for grant, the...
Thursday, May 25 at 9:30 am at Gathering Ground. Come at 9:15 for coffee and treats. Join us for a workshop where you how to install and use a drip irrigation system for your home garden. Hands-on learning through putting in a system in GG’s new community...
Gathering Ground is excited to begin hosting a community garden on the Grounds in 2023. Our goal with the community garden is to have a common garden that invites everyone come to visit, learn in, work in, and harvest from. Work a little. Pick a little. Enjoy a lot!...
Ground School, Gathering Ground’s summer program focused on sustainability and agriculture, opens up applications for local students For five years, Gathering Ground has hosted a summer internship program drawing students from across the country to Washington...
As I’ve been looking over photos and evaluations from this past summer’s programs, I hear Mary Oliver whispering her poem “The Summer Day” in my ear. How she deftly juxtaposes the grasshoppers “enormous and complicated eyes” to her...
