This is a tentative schedule, things will be added, but it gives a general outline. There will be event pages later with details and registration information.

Ongoing:

  • Wednesday evenings Zen classes online. Register at website. We are currently studying the precepts.
  • 2nd and 4th Sundays, Gift of Fearlessness discussion group, online, 7 Central Time. Very informal group, addresses world events, personal lives and actions. If interested, email with inquiry.
  • Some Saturday afternoons 1-5: Workdays in the spirit of Earth Apprenticeship. Register by phone or email.

Winter volunteer projects:

  • Firewood
  • Carpet loft
  • Sewing projects
  • Indoor minor repairs
  • Food projects

January:

  • 18 Women’s March in St. Paul
  • 24-26 Sesshin or community retreat

February

  • 8-9: retreat at Midtown Atlanta Zen, 8-6 Saturday, 8-12 Sunday, plus Atlanta visit the following week
  • 21-23: weekend retreat at farm, Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. Includes a few hours of community work: tapping maples if weather permits, otherwise indoor projects.

March:

  • Tapping sugar maples, cooking maple syrup – probably all month, depending on weather.
  • 10: Board meeting (not public)
  • 14-16: community weekend – land care: outdoor projects involving tree planting, perhaps zendo building. There are alternate projects if weather is cold or difficult.

April:

  • 18-20: Community weekend: land care – move small pine trees, transplant ground cover, outdoor zendo building

May:

  • 1-10: Shodo attends 10-day online class with Okumura Roshi. (Register at Sanshinji.org.)
  • 17-19: sesshin
  • Garden volunteering possibilities: plant ground cherries, plant willow fence, general garden prep.

June:

  • 13-16: 4-day weekend Earth Apprentice retreat with Zen Center North Shore; possibly space for a few additional participants.

July:

  • 18-20: sesshin
  • Volunteer projects: Garden work, Raspberry prep & pick, Forage, firewood

August:

  • 15-17: Community retreat: Earth Apprentice

September

  • Wild rice weekend? Hopefully we’ll get enough advance notice to go.
  • Community weekend: land care

October – November:

  • To be determined: probably October sesshin and some outdoor work events, possibly a precepts retreat.

December:

  • 1-8: Rohatsu sesshin, traditional 7 days of silent meditation commemorating Buddha’s enlightenment.