Experience Design

New Traditions: an Illustrated Memoir of the Sky Meadow Sacred Harvest 2025

Photos courtesy and Kathrynne and Tony Wolf. Recently returned from another week-long stay at Sky Meadow, our soulful home-away-from-home deep in the mountains of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Originally a dairy farm and homestead dating back to the mid-19th century, the 114-acre property has served as a spiritual/nature retreat and permaculture farm since the 1980s. The … Read moreNew Traditions: an Illustrated Memoir of the Sky Meadow Sacred Harvest 2025

The Church of Burn

Introducing the Church of Burn: Art-Magic Cult? New Age Religion? Ritualists? Gnostics? Chaos Mages? When the Fitzwilliam Museum described Church of Burn as “organisers of special events that resemble religious ceremonies,” it felt like we were being observed through the lens of a Victorian anthropologist — as if our rituals needed some kind of official … Read moreThe Church of Burn

The Chapel of Awe: A Temporary Monastic Container (December 6-14 at Sky Meadow Retreat)

The Chapel of Awe is an abbey for earnest contemplation, meditation, and communal brother-/sisterhood before the holy Mystery of existence: (…) The daily itinerary will be sparse but not ascetic, structured but not strictly regimented, serene but not silent. Beginning with a meditation sit at 9 am, each day will be devoted to reading, contemplation, … Read moreThe Chapel of Awe: A Temporary Monastic Container (December 6-14 at Sky Meadow Retreat)

The Sky Meadow Mystery School, Harvest 2024 in a few words and many images

Taking place during late August of 2024, the inaugural Sky Meadow Mystery School was a free, week-long, residential immersion into wholesome permaculture practice and the mythopoetic mysteries of Life and Death. As an experiment in countercultural community-building, the Mystery School was also a time and place to learn new skills and perspectives. One of our … Read moreThe Sky Meadow Mystery School, Harvest 2024 in a few words and many images