Community Calendar

Join our intercultural summer day camps where children 6-12 years old explore music creation, international dance, music instrument building, and other forms of art in a joyful and supportive environment. Each child receives personal attention and a meaningful creative experience.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Buddy Huffaker joined the Aldo Leopold Foundation in 1996 as a seasonal intern and has served as Executive Director since 1999.  During his tenure, the foundation has grown into a national conservation organization with international reach, realizing the potential of a Land Ethic. Dr. Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold, and during that time he won every teaching award for which he was eligible. He and his students have helped save many of the world’s endangered species and the habitats on which they depend. The Aug. 20 presentation is titled “Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: A conversation on land ethic and conservation.” Join a fireside chat with Huffaker, Temple (joining virtually) and Jesse Pope, president and CEO of Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation on endangered species and the land ethic. Temple will share stories from his lifetime of work on conservation efforts to save endangered species across the world, including one right here at Grandfather Mountain. Huffaker and Pope will chat about Leopold’s Land Ethic today, why it continues to be important and what challenges are being faced at Grandfather. Tickets go on sale online for this event at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 19.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Join Mattie Decker, a certified forest therapy guide, for a relaxing 2 to 2.5-hour stroll through the forest at Grandfather Mountain. Through a series of invitations, you will have the opportunity to focus on being present in the moment, deepening your connection with nature and community and enjoying the many gifts nature has to offer. Forest bathing walks invite guests to spend time in nature in a way that invites healing for us, as well as our fraught ecosystems, and our community. Registration opens online on June 22 at 10 a.m.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Calling all radio enthusiasts — join us for our 2026 annual Hamfest!

Whether you're into ham radio, GMRS, CB, or just love a good swap meet, there's something for everyone!

Sweepstakes on the hour beginning at 9am
Boneyard/Swap meet
Indoor & Outdoor Vendors
Kids Programs/ STEM Activities
VE Testing – Free (Donations welcome!)
Food & Drinks with Local Food Trucks onsite!
Handicapped parking available

BEETLES Professional Learning Sessions are active experiences crafted to encourage instructors to look at different specific aspects of research-based science pedagogy and to inspire shifts in instructors’ thinking about their own teaching and learning. This session will cover the “Making Observations and Promoting Discussion Sessions” where we will learn how we can help learners make careful observations while encouraging wonder and curiosity and how productive talk leads to deep learning. This workshop qualifies for Criteria I or II in the EE Certification Program. CEU renewal credits are available. This workshop is free to attend, although advance registration is required. Tickets for this event go online on Grandfather Mountain’s website June 29 at 10 a.m.