Saugeen River School for Sacred Agriculture
2025 SCHEDULE OF COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ONLINE AND IN-PERSON
These workshops and courses are open to anyone regardless of your path. Many spiritual and religious traditions search for a sacred relationship to the Earth. Sacred Agriculture is about striving to include the “whole” in all that we do to grow food, fiber, and medicine. Each of us will continue to grow into our understanding of what is “whole”. We hope these workshops and courses will be part of all or our journey discovering the sacred in our work.
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Stand alone workshops to deepen our farming and gardening practice (bundle pricing available)
- Carbon and Nature Consciousness: Introductory Weekend Workshop
Over two sessions through presentation, meditation and discussion, we will explore: a conversation between the spiritual and physical sides of nature, questions around the dead, our ancestor’s relationship to nature, the spiritual significance of carbon.
December 7-8, 2024
1-2:30pm ET in person
7-8:30pm on-line
Suggested Donation: $50
- Ways of Knowing in an Uncertain World: Empirical Science and Spiritual Science
How does spiritual sight relate to what we perceive with our senses? How can natural science help spiritual science, and vice versa?
January 11, 2025
1-2:30pm ET in person
7-8:30pm on-line
Suggested Donation: $30
- Animal and Human Shared Evolution
The vertebrates can be rightly considered our brothers and sisters. Through the animals on the farm we have a deep connection to the Earth that formed through evolution and continues today.
March 8, 2025
1-2:30pm ET in person
7-8:30pm on-line
Suggested Donation: $30
- Soil: Soul of the Land
As mediator between what is above and what is below, the soil breathes between the universal spirit and the spirit of place. We will explore soil science from a spiritual science perspective.
April 12, 2025
1-2:30pm ET in person
7-8:30 on-line
Suggested Donation: $30
- Seed Saving: Imaging with Nature Spirits
People from all corners of the Earth have stories about beings in nature. Practical knowledge of seed saving is a window into relating to these beings of place.
September 13, 2025
1-3pm ET in person only
Suggested Donation: $30
- The Miracle of the Human Body: Finding Meaning in Physical Work
Tools and technology are an extension of the human body. As they become more powerful, materialism often sees our bodies as limited. There are hidden miracles in working with our hands that tools can never replace.
November 8, 2025
1-2:30pm ET in person
7-8:30pm on-line
Suggested Donation: $30
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In depth on-line courses – cultivating learning communities to keep asking questions
- Seven Sacred Acts of Agriculture
As we learn to listen to the language of the land, the simple becomes profound. Our practical efforts can be sacred as we try to connect them to the whole.
Eight sessions on Thursday evenings
January 9 – February 20, 2025
7-8:30pm ET (Canada and US)
Suggested Donation: $250
- Rudolf Steiner’s Creation Story and Humanity’s Relationship to the Earth
Consciousness is everywhere behind processes in the Earth, sun, planets and stars. Nature and humanity have evolved and continue to evolve within this context. We will explore modern issues like the rise of colonialism with its outer and inner effects, the global force of materialism, and climate change. These issues have a powerful impact on any considerations of a Sacred Agriculture. This course is not to propose definitive answers, but to deepen the questions we all are wrestling with.
Eight sessions on Monday evenings
January 13 – February 24
7-8:30pm ET (Canada and US)
Suggested Donation: $250