COME CLOSER
Participate
The work becomes more meaningful when it moves beyond one piece of land.
Participation does not have to mean moving to a farm.
It can mean learning a skill, reading more deeply, buying from a small producer, planting something useful, trying an old practice, or simply paying closer attention to the place where life is already happening.
Dark Hollow offers a few ways to come closer to the work.
UPCOMING AT DARK HOLLOW
Come to something.
Farm tours, workshops, seasonal gatherings, markets, volunteer days, and other chances to experience the work in person are kept on the Dark Hollow calendar.
The calendar is the best place to see what is actually coming up next.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Show up. Learn something. Meet the place in person.
COME & LEARN
Workshops & Gatherings
Some things make more sense when they are practiced with the hands. Seasonal workshops and gatherings offer a way into biodynamics, grafting, native orcharding, woodland cultivation, fiber, farm skills, and other parts of the work.
The aim is not to turn visitors into experts in a day. It is to make the work visible, practical, and possible to carry elsewhere.
READ & FOLLOW
Stay with the questions
The farm is one part of Dark Hollow. The writing follows the same questions into nature, technology, community, Anthroposophy, agriculture, craft, and the larger problem of how to live well in a living world.
Leave a Trace is being shared through Dark Hollow on Substack, along with essays and notes from the work.
FROM THE FIELD
What is happening now.
Shorter glimpses from the farm live across social channels: weather, animals, harvests, experiments, workshops, mistakes, and small things worth noticing. Juicer gathers those feeds back into one place here.
BRING SOMETHING HOME
Goods from the work
Honey, wool, native spices, biodynamic preparations, and other small-batch goods are some of the most direct ways the work leaves the farm.
A jar of honey or a packet of spice is practical. It is also a small piece of a larger system: bees and bloom times, woodland crops, sheep on a hillside, plants gathered and dried, preparations made by hand.
The website tells the story. Etsy handles the transaction.
PRACTICE WHERE YOU ARE
Participation can be small.
Plant something. Learn a name. Buy from a small farm. Make compost. Grow a native perennial food. Learn where water moves after rain. Keep bees. Spin wool. Read an old idea and test it against the world.