We invite you to join us as we gather to honor the turning of the season. 

Samhain (pronounced Sa-ween), the last of the three traditional harvest festivals acknowledges that Autumn is almost at an end. The year’s harvest is almost all gathered in. The tumult and activity of growing and tending and collecting and curing is slowing down. It’s time to begin the turn inward, to process, to consolidate, evaluate, and prepare for winter - the time of stillness, contemplation, and renewal. Traditional people saw and acknowledged the parallels between the yearly natural and agricultural cycles and the greater cycles of our lives. Conception, birth, growth, maturation, aging, death, and subsequent rebirth are all coded in the celebrations of the seasons. The tapestry of days, years, decades and ages is woven with these threads. Just as the gathered harvest contains the collected, processed, and cherished seeds of the following year’s abundance, we hope that this Samhain Gathering, the first Growing Home venture, will act as the seed of a blossoming new garden in our community. One that nourishes our bodies, minds, spirits, and families.

Join us on November 4 at Buck Creek Sanctuary for a unique Samhain experience whose most fundamental goal is to gather the community together in celebration and acknowledgment of our connection to one another, to the natural world, and to the immutable cycles of our lives.