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...
How to Support Gathering Ground Did you know monthly donors are a sustaining life force behind the programs of Gathering Ground? If one of your resolutions is to get more involved, we’d like to suggest you become a monthly donor to Gathering Ground. It’s easy! With...
