April 22 – 10 am at Jeannie’s Heron Home Earth Day Poetry Workshop with Alessandra Simmons. Celebrate the beauty of the world around us. A fundraiser for Gathering Ground, in this workshop we will read some odes for the natural world and write some of our...
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...
On the grand scheme of things a few acres of chestnuts on Washington Island sounds small. And it is. But small is mighty. Here are 4 reasons why a chesetnut orchard can have a big impact: Food: 1 acre of chesnut trees produces 1,000s of lbs of food each year. A...
