Our 2021 Summer Intern Isabella shared about the biodiversity at Gathering Ground through music. She takes us on a journey to understand the...
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Education
Ecocriticism and Entangled Humanism
By Emma Knickelbine, 2021 Summer Intern As a student currently studying to earn a Master's in Literature and Cultural Theory, I've frequently been...
Meet our 2021 Interns – Part Two
We are enjoying our fourth summer internship, with a team of six radiant interns. Please stop and say hello. They will be happy to tell you all...
Meet our 2021 Interns
We are enjoying our fourth summer internship, with a team of six radiant interns. Please stop and say hello. They will be happy to tell you all...
Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers
Russell Rolffs, Gathering Ground's farm manager and owner of Hoot Blossom Farm, shared with us his growing knowledge about Native plants and...
Forest Path Connecting School to Gathering Ground
This fall Washington Island students had a field day roaming the woods between Gathering Ground and Island School. Since then, they have been...
Our Educational Internship, Year 4
By Russell Rolffs Planting trees and tending vines has absorbed the majority of our efforts so far, but education is at the heart of our...
Nature Writing with Write On and Gathering Ground
By Nora Boxer, UWM graduate student in creative writing This January, I was given the opportunity to participate as a student in Write On, Door...
The Internship 2020
By Alex Krantz, Gathering Ground intern 2020 Before becoming an intern with my sister Izzy at Gathering Ground, I was an Island regular. Every...
Community Compost
Beginning in July, our community compost program will be up and running. Our goal is to recycle the kitchen and yard waste from Island households and businesses, up to the holding capacity of our structure, diverting the waste from being dumped and carted off-island. All while producing black soil to enrich our gardens and orchards.