Sept. Seventh in Huntington, VT
This Love Feast is Erika and Evan's wedding-type thing, and is also a celebration of love in all it's forms, of this living hillside that we call home, of lineages and futures unfolding, of the webs of community that we each uphold, and of being alive and feeling in a heartbreaking time.
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It is whatever we make it!
Join us for what
calls you:
- Wed. 9/4:
6p: Love Camp opening and dinner, follow by games
- Thurs 9/5:
9a: Opening Circle, followed by offerings and Work Parties
1p: Sourdough crepe lunch, followed by offerings and Work Parties
6:30p: Soup and Sourdough, followed by Music and Singing
- Fri 9/6:
9a: Opening Circle, followed by offerings and Work Parties
1p: Polenta and Smoked Chuck Roast, then offerings and Work Parties
6:30p: Burger Night! Followed by No-Talent Show and maybe
the first of the matrimony ceremonies
Sat 9/7: (Note: park at Fielder Farm!)
9a: Opening Circle, followed by offerings and Work Parties
2p: Love Feast Arrival
2:30p: Invocation and Ceremony
After that: FEAST!
After that: la musica / le dansing
After that: ???
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- Sun 9/8 10a: [Location TBD! Compound or Fielder Farm...]
Woodash Tortillas and Corned Beef, then cleanup and goodbyes
Love Camp | Sept. 4-8
This is an excuse to surround each other in a web of beloved relations. Love Feast will be the product of how much everyone wants to put into it in the days and weeks prior! You are invited to show up as your full, flawed, beautiful self. You are invited to contribute or not contribute in whatever ways feel good to you. We invite your gifts and hungers.
Camping amenities available, or we can help you find local lodging. More deets in the RSVP!
We will be prepping for the feast, singing, eating, learning, dancing, swimming, and other things. What gifts, skills, offerings, and insights do you cultivate? What might you offer to the other beloved people?
Love Feast | Sept. 7
If you can only make it to one thing, this is the one! The Feast will involve some sort of ceremony, many sorts of dancing, and the foods that fill our days with labor, love and purpose.
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We'll be hosted and self-hosting at the amazing Fielder Farm, which is a 15 min walk or 5 min drive from our home on Salvas Rd. There is ample parking and other amenities.
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Strict Dress Code: Wear what makes you feel most comfortable and/or beautiful for spending time with loved ones, strangers, and everyone in between. Outdoors, on a grass lawn, under tents (No heels!)
Pack Lists and more details to come!
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Contributions
Your presence and hunger at the Feast is a more-than-huge-enough contribution to this affair!
...and, there will be countless additional ways to contribute. The feast will be a labor of love for us, our community, and you, without much help from professional caterers, cleaners, florists, or supermarkets... So there will be ample ways to participate! But no obligation - do what you are able and interested in doing, and collectively we will be able to nourish each other and this place.
Some additional ways to participate:
- Join a work party or two Sept. 4-8 to help pull off the feast
- Bring items to share for the Gift Swap Table at the feast: creative things, seeds, food gifts, useful things, silly things, things you like to make... a place to share!
- Offer an activity, a weird thing, a meal or something else during Camp
- Help decorate! Bring flowers and other decor. If you'd like to coordinate, get in touch with the Decoration Team lead, who is TBD (email erikaflickner@gmail.com for now)
- Bring an instrument. Make music.
- Stay through Sunday to help clean up and pack up
- Truly, just be yourself.
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What about Money?
Please consider contributing by participating in the above ways, or whatever creative ways you'd like!
That said, if you choose to also give a money gift, please consider giving in one of the following ways:
Cash Flow Gift Fund
This is our hyper-local financial source for land/food/community work. It funds Corn Flow (lead by Evan), the salvas sheep flock (lead by Erika) and Dairy Flow (lead by Ava/Gen), and more! venmo @Cash Flow-Fund
E&E Baby Fund
In case you don't know, Erika is due in December! Help us with baby expenses so we can keep doing our unpaid work.
Seventh Generation Fund
"Dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations."
Operation Olive Branch
Directly support families trying to evacuate Palestine
Or a cause of your choosing
If we will have the wisdom to survive,
To stand like slow-growing trees
On a ruined place, renewing, enriching it,
If we will make our seasons welcome here,
Asking not too much of earth or heaven,
then a long time after we are dead
The lives our lives prepare will live
Here, their houses strongly placed
Upon the valley sides, fields and gardens
Rich in the windows. The river will run
Clear, as we will never know it,
And over it, birdsong like a canopy.
On the levels of the hills will be
Green meadows, stock bells in noon shade.
On the steeps where greed and
ignorance cut down
The old forest, an old forest will stand,
Its rich leaf-fall drifting on its roots.
The veins of forgotten springs will have opened.
Families will be singing in the fields.
In their voices they will hear a music
Risen out of the ground. They will take
Nothing from the ground they will not return,
Whatever the grief at parting. Memory,
Native to this valley, will spread over it
Like a grove, and memory will grow
into legend, legend into song, song
into sacrament. The abundance of this place,
the songs of its people and its birds,
will be health and wisdom and indwelling
light. This is no paradisal dream.
Its hardship is its possibility.
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Work song, part 2: a vision
Wendell Berry