December's Work Day
This is the perfect season for clearing invasives! Preparing the space for the new native trees that will be planted in the Spring.
November's Work Day!
Our November work day will be all about clearing and removing invasives!
Grief Retreat
We are hosting a Collective Grief Retreat.
At this retreat we will be focusing on making a large collaborative altar with natural materials. The collaborative altar will focus on the grief felt when fighting oppression.
Wonderfest
Save the date for our annual weekend to hike, relax and have fun with friends and family: Wonderfest!
October 19th - 20th! Stay overnight or come for the day!
What to bring:
Water for drinking and washing
Food
Camping gear
Folding chairs
Cold weather clothing
Flashlight and/or lantern
Portable phone charger
Please note Wonderland currently has no running water or electricity, although we do have a composting toilet! We also currently don’t have a waste removal system so we ask that people take their trash with them when they leave.
We are looking forward to sharing the wonders of Wonderland with you!
Please RSVP sending us an email so we can make sure there's room for your tent - and also, we have a waiver for you to sign and some guidelines for you to read.
October Work Weekend!
if you love removing invasive species and restoring ecosystems, Wonderland might be the place you wanna be at on October 12-13th!
come for the day or stay overnight camping with us - we will be focusing on community projects from 11am to 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday. we will continue working on our food forest belt - a promise that will feed many! we will also continue our restoration efforts in the fen, and there will be a chance to make a dead hedge, use a scythe and learn about composting toilets.
we acknowledge that these are really hard times with climate disasters, genocides and collapse everywhere... there will be time to take hikes and be in nature and in community to restore yourself and others, if that’s what you need.
please let us know in advance via wonderlandcommunityproject@gmail.com if you can come, so that we know to expect you & make sure to have lunch for everyone!
and please follow these Instagram accounts to stay informed and support those in need in any way you can:
@mutualaiddisasterrelief - Hurricane Helene Relief
@wizard_bisan1 - journalist in Gaza
@rebirthgarments and @dandelion.tea.art - fundraisers for people in Gaza
@so.informed
@theslowfactory
also, don’t forget to save the date for our annual social gathering on October 19th-20th: Wonderfest!
Scythe Demo!
Join us tomorrow at Wonderland for a scythe and sickle demo with Tom Simpson!
We will have a European and an American scythe, a few sickles, and plenty of nettles to harvest!
We highly recommend @poorprolesalmanac article "Revitalizing the Scythe" to learn more about this magnificent tool -
"A scythe is a tool that brings us closer to our environment instead of distancing us from it. It gives us the opportunity to learn, react, and respond to our ecosystem. It gives us a different perspective on the land we’re on and the opportunity to become an active participant in our habitat. And there are some other ways that this tool facilitates a more harmonious relationship with place that are very measurable: compaction and impact."
See you tomorrow!