[OKC] FW: Labyrinth, Straw Bale Hermitage, Tipi - New at Turtle Rock Farm

Tue Jun 1 08:45:08 PDT 2010

FYI

From: Pat and Ann at Turtle Rock Farm
[mailto:patricia at turtlerockfarmretreat.ccsend.com] On Behalf Of Pat and Ann
at Turtle Rock Farm
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 6:32 PM
To: sstruby at cox.net
Subject: Labyrinth, Straw Bale Hermitage, Tipi - New at Turtle Rock Farm

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feel the cool wind blowing over Earth after a warm, sunny day. We need to
hear the song of the mockingbird singing from the top of a nearby tree. 

We may think that we are beyond all this, that our rational modes of
thinking are sufficient, that we can do without such immersion in the world
of wonder, beauty and physical excitement, experiences proper to the
uncivilized people of the past. We may even think of our children as
sufficiently fulfilled with television trivia. Yet we are finally learning
that these fundamental experiences of the natural world are inherent
necessities for us to reason clearly and shape a fulfilling course of human
affairs in all their various contexts. Our children especially need these
experiences. Yet only if found with their elders can children's early
experiences be complete." 

-- Thomas Berry, preface to Exploring a Sense of Place

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 It's Next Week!

If you can't come for the week,

come on Sunday, June 5

for the afternoon intro session -

and a cookout and barn dance

Straw Bale Construction Workshop 

6-12 June 2010

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(This isn't our building; just to show you the process.)

We are ready (well, almost!)

The tin is finished. Tom Temple is framing the windows and doors. Our
neighbor Dan Pruscha has dug the clay. Steve and Mollie are packing up to
head this way. Our wonderful workshop participants have their list of items
to bring. James Stepp of Wichita Buffalo Company is going to see that the
buffalo hot dogs get here for Sunday's cookout. Our Oklahoma Food Coop order
is already here and we've been cooking for days. The tipi is up (see below.)
Tom's also putting up a solar shower (where else can you find an outdoor
shower with a prairie view?) Wayne Cantwell is rosining up the bow for the
contra dance. We are excited!

Using natural building materials is an age-old practice that is good for the
planet and provides beautiful, comfortable, energy-efficient, sound housing.

During this week-long workshop, participants will learn how to build a
building with stuccoed straw bale walls. Led by Tom Temple
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and Steve Kemble, of Ashville, N.C., this workshop will include classroom
instruction as well as hands-on experience. During this week, we will stack
the bales and apply the first coat of mud on a small hermitage at Turtle
Rock Farm. 

We will be using clay found on the farm, as well as straw bales from last
year's wheat harvest.

For those who want a shorter workshop, Molly and Steve will lead a
Straw-Bale Introduction class from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, 6 June, which
week-long participants will also join. Fee for the Sunday afternoon workshop
only is $25. 

Not only educational about natural building methods, this workshop will help
build community - and be a whole lot of fun! Participants will be lodged at
one of the houses at Turtle Rock Farm, in a tipi or may camp out. Meals will
be provided by Turtle Rock Farm staff and shared by the community. 

Fee for the week of instruction, lodging and meals is $425. Couples, $375
each. Instruction, meals and camping, $375.  Deposit to hold your space is
$150. Spaces for this retreat will be limited. For more information, give us
a call, at 580.725.3411 or 580.917.6011. To register, go to our website,
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the contra dance: We've added supper and a barn dance to the festivities on
Sunday evening - because we've discovered how much fun contra dancing is.
(Think Virginia Reel; think Jane Austen's country dances - only in shorts,
in a barn on the Oklahoma prairie.) Wayne Cantwell (the "Flyin' Fiddler")
will provide the music and Scissortail Oklahoma Traditional Dance Society
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Beginners are welcome. And it's free!

The foundation is poured.

Composting toilet vault is built.

Post-and-beam framing is finished.

Roof is finished....

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The Amazing Days of May

 Pepper Hernandez, Raw Chef
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Raw Chef Pepper Hernandez who taught at the women's yoga-raw foods retreat.
Bob Phillips and Tom Temple relaxing after a day of hermitage-building

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Norman's Irving Junior High Students learned about raised bed gardening
and a prairie ecosystem (shown in front of an ancient buffalo wallow)

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Missouri neighbors Mel and Bill stitched us a tipi and came and showed us
how 
to put it up

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Friends Jane and Jim Bond and interns Jae Clewell and Clayton Taylor
helped us build a Chartres design labyrinth on the prairie

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Prayer ribbons and cairns were left in the center. 

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Swarm of honey bees on the driveway. 
Ann, Everett and Dorothy after getting the bees safely into new hives. 

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Hail - like we've never seen before.
The garden is in! Chickens did a good job of helping get the soil ready. 

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Guineas are growing. And we have a new rabbit to help feed the red wiggler
worms.
Jolie is her name. Thank you Bartley family!

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Kildere mamma faking a broken wing to distract us
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Much is blooming. And the resident Great Blue Herons have been more visible.

Truly, this has been an amazing month. 

We didn't exactly plan it this way - everything just culminated at once. Not
only has the hermitage progressed to the point that we're ready for the
week-long workshop when we'll build the walls with straw bales and then
stucco them, we also now have a tipi and a labyrinth! Both have been planned
for months and finally happened in the same week.

Mowing the 88-foot-wide labyrinth was a daunting task. But with the help of
our friends Jane and Jim Bond and interns Jae Clewell and Clayton Taylor,
and Michael Bartley's timely delivery of his family's rabbit and the
discovery that he could provide more flags to mark the labyrinth, we managed
it very well. It was Clayton's first day as an intern here and he manned the
mower and made a perfect path - no small feat, considering the number of
turns along the way. Making the labyrinth was a spiritual experience - as
was our first walk on our first Labyrinth Retreat. Its location at the top
of the prairie amid the wildflowers and birdsong makes the experience even
richer.

We are in awe of Mel Morley who stitched us a tipi. She and Bill delivered
it one cloudy, cool morning in May and taught us how to set the
24-foot-balsam fir poles and stake the cover. It was an elegant morning and
the tipi is a magnificent space in which to relax and rest and be close to
the natural world. We are happy to be able to offer that space for
interested guests.

Women came to learn about raw food and do yoga early in the month. And 13
wonderful students from Irving Junior High in Norman made a trip here and
spent the day learning about gardening and the prairie ecosystem. They
remained in our hearts when we realized that evening that they went home to
tornadoes in their neighborhood that did much damage. That was the night we
got softball-sized hail.

May in Oklahoma is usually memorable. There's the inevitability of violent
weather, but there is also much beauty in the natural world. Ann corralled
not one but two swarms of honey bees - in a single afternoon - and with the
help of her mentor and friend Everett Taylor and Green Connections board
member and friend Dorothy Gray, who happened along, Ann now tends not two
beehives but six! The flowers are remarkable. Trees are filled with fruit
(the hail only knocked a few off their branches, amazingly.) We have been
very aware of bird activity: pair of scissor-tailed flycatchers diving for
bugs on the pond at twilight and building a nest in the farmhouse pecan
tree; Great Blue Heron couple soaring and squawking about the same time,
and, most engaging of all, a mamma Kildere has built a nest and filled it
with eggs right in the middle of the pond house driveway. We've been driving
around her for three weeks now and are hoping to see the babes soon.

And now comes June

We have been planning for months the week-long straw bale workshop June 6-12
(see above.) And we will have a Retreat on the Prairie for Women June 18-19.
You can lodge in the house - or now, a tipi. Renee Hoover, a wonderful
Cherokee basket weaver, will teach us how to weave baskets in the Cherokee
tradition. We'll take a "cosmic walk," learn about a prairie ecosystem - our
"home" in the natural world. We'll watch Earth roll up and the sun disappear
and the prairie come alive at first light in the morning. 

With school out, June affords time to rest and be together as well. We have
open dates for individuals, families, groups, couples who want to spend
vacation, retreat and restoration time on the prairie to witness all the
beautiful surprises of summer.

In Peace and Beauty,
Ann and Pat

P.S.  Save the date:  Green Connections' fabulous Prairie Dinner
and Concert is October 2. Kamala Gamble will be chef of our local foods
dinner and Kyle Dillingham, famed Oklahoma fiddler, will be in concert. 

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Thank You Volunteers!

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Green Connections Board Member
and volunteer extraordinaire
Dorothy Gray helping with the bees

Want to be a Turtle Rock Farm Volunteer?
Have we got a deal for you!

a 24-hour stay (on us)
for 4 hours of labor (yours)

As we grow and expand our offerings and our facility, we couldn't get along
without the wonderful people who volunteer at Turtle Rock Farm. They have
become a cherished part of our community. 
If you're interested in helping out, let us know. We'll work together and
you can have some retreat time, a good night's rest and some community time
around a table set with home-cooked fresh food. 

Note: This offer does not pertain to our programmed workshops and retreats. 

Call us at 580.725.3411 or email annmcferron at hotmail.com; 580.917.6011 or
email pathoerth at hotmail.com

A QUICK LOOK AT RETREAT DATES

June 6-12
Straw Bale Construction Workshop
(Intro session and barn dance 
June 6)

June 18-19
Prairie Retreat
(including Cherokee Basket Weaving)

July 24
Earth Dinner: How to Cook to Save the Planet

Green Connections Prairie Dinner 
and Concert: Saturday, Oct. 2

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Upcoming

Retreats and Workshops 

Straw Bale Construction Workshop

June 6-12

See details above.

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Prairie Retreat for Women

June 18-19

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Much of Oklahoma was native prairie, part of The Great Plains. This retreat
will take us back to the prairie, where we will learn its history (from its
ancient beginnings as an ocean) and its ecosystem. We will spend time on the
prairie noticing the grasses, birds and wildlife - the prairie community.

Too, we will take a "cosmic walk" and Cherokee basket weaver Renee Hoover
will teach us how to make a basket the Cherokee way. We will come away,
having experienced more intimately the prairie ecosystem of which we are a
part, with the wisdom that only the prairie can offer, and a deeper
understanding of how to live in harmony with the natural world.

This is an overnight retreat, beginning Friday even at 7 p.m. You are
welcome to bring a tent and camp out on the prairie or sleep in our tipi or
lodge in our house 

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Earth Dinner: How to Cook to Save the Planet

July 24

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Decisions we make about the food we eat not only impact our health, but also
the health of the planet. On this retreat, participants will learn how food
impacts global climate change, why what we eat matters and what we can do:
where to get food, what kind of food to get and how to cook it. We'll learn
about cooking local, fresh food using methods that are simple and create
delicious meals. Half the day will be spent in the kitchen, cooking
together. The retreat ends with supper and a reminder of the joy of sitting
at table together.

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August Retreats

Aug 7 - Making a Raised Bed and/or Tumbling Composter

Aug 14 - Earth Plunge for Families

Aug 20-21 - Earth Dinner

Aug 28 - Learning to Live in the Moment

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unique opportunities 

for spiritual renewal

and sustainable learning (& living)

in 2010...

second monday is

get-away day 

Every Second Monday of the month is Get-Away Day at Turtle Rock Farm. Come
for an unprogrammed day of quiet, walking, writing, making art, reading,
napping, gardening; just being in the country. To schedule, call
580.917.6011 or email pathoerth at hotmail or go to
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Transitions Handbook

monthly book discussion

June 21, July 12

"Rob Hopkins has written the most thorough description so far of how we get
from the present chaos of cities and towns that are killing the planet and
the people in them, to viable new ecologically sustainable urban and rural
systems. This is more than a theoretical how-to manual; it is based on his
own team's ground-breaking work, engaging whole communities in a
transformative process that accepts the crucial need to reverse course, and
has succeeded in doing so. The book is a great guide for how we must live in
a future world where the limits of nature are honoured, but so are the basic
comforts and joys of communities coming together in a great common cause.
There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking
change toward ecological sustainability."
-- Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on
Globalization and author of In the Absence of the Sacred

We will meet 9:30 to 11 a.m. Cost is $15. Call or email if you're
interested: pathoerth at gmail.com. 580.917.6011.

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Comments from our guests...

"Have you ever felt as if you could see the world in every direction? The
labyrinth at Turtle Rock Farm is perched on top of a rolling hill,
surrounded by wildflowers and prairie grasses and as you walk the sacred
path, you can see beauty in every direction. Come and see." -- Jeni Markham
Clewell

"What an amazing experience! Thank you ladies for sharing your love and land
with us all. The labyrinth retreat is a must for anyone seeking to dive
deeper into themselves." -- Shela and Kiran, Tulsa

"When you come to Turtle Rock, the world changes. There is an intentional
connection to Earth, to the past, to the present, to the future. Turtle rock
is a place of incredible grace, a place of peace." -- Paul Calkin

"Thank you for your hospitality and your spirit of love and grace. May the
Lord continue to call hearts apart to rest in this place." -- Ursula L.

"Awakened to a world washed clean from thundershowers. The birds are
cheerful and greet us with morning song. A lovely retreat to enjoy the
wonders of creation! My only sadness - it was much too brief. Eager to
return." -- Shelley R.

"Thank you so much for your hospitality and generosity. Our kids had such a
blast feeding the animals and using the kayaks and canoe. The fresh eggs
were delicious and your home was so cozy and comfortable. We enjoyed being
out in nature and being together as a family. The kids LOVED it all!" --
Lisa, Madi and Christian

"Thank you for these great times of our lives. I'm sure we'll come back
soon." -- Bethany

"Thank you so very much for giving us this amazing opportunity. Our children
have experienced such wonderful, memorable things that we will cherish for a
lifetime. What a beautiful home and farm. Thank you so much for sharing it
with us." --Dana, Evan, Bethany and Olivia

"A blizzard on the first day of spring. I should be worried about getting
home, but I can't find it in myself. There's such peace here. Thank you for
a quiet place to rest with God." -- Sara Marie Bodenstein

"We came for a gardening workshop and found so much more. We treasured our
time here due to the incredible scenery and lovely people. We felt welcomed
and at home. These days helped us rekindle our love and commitment to Earth.
Thank you for sharing your land, passion and talents." -- Wendy

"This retreat is a great idea. Women who are military can get together to
bond, share their stories and life with others who have the same experience.
It is a 'happy' place." -- J

"Just knowing we, the women of the United States military are not alone is
beautiful. Thank you to Turtle Rock." 

-- Max, US Army

"This retreat provided an excellent opportunity to network experience
comaraderie with other women veterans and to relax and enjoy the day. Thank
you, thank you, thank you!" -- Barbara Curry, USAF retired

"I loved camping on the hill - beautiful views of the Oklahoma prairie.
Beautiful place - thanks for sharing." - M.C.

"Wow! What a peaceful, lovely place. Thank you for your hospitality. Looking
forward to future visits and more peace..." -- Molly Helm

"'Unless you find belonging in your solitude, your external longing will
remain needy and driven.' Thanks again for your hospitality in this Sacred
Space. Gracias! Blessings! Namaste!" -- Mary Lou Bender

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"Retreat is neither whim nor luxury nor self-indulgence, but a rock-bottom
staple of a healthy life. We need retreat as surely as we need oxygen or
protein. While any given retreat may start out as a joyride - a few days
away from spouse, kids or job; a chance to spread one's wings, loosen one's
belt, kick up one's heels - it always winds up as a pilgrimage. We start to
look for what really counts." -- Philip Zaleski, The Recollected Heart

How does one 'do' a Retreat?

A "retreat" at Turtle Rock Farm is a chance to get away into the quiet and
beauty of the prairie. But not everyone is used to the quiet and find the
idea a bit intimidating, even if they know they long for it. 
A retreat can be a time when you sleep, listen to music, read, walk, visit,
play musical instruments, do art, bask in silence, get a therapeutic
massage, sit in a rocking chair on the porch, visit with a spiritual
director, explore nature...alone, with friends, family. 

It can be what you need and what you want it to be. We are happy to guide
and assist, or give you solitude.

To reserve your individual, group, couple or family retreat: 
email or phone pathoerth at hotmail.com; 580.917.6011
or annmcferron at hotmail.com; 580.725.3411

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our partnership 

with GreenConnections...

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Photo by Candace Krebs

The First Annual Green Connections
Dinner on the Prairie - October 2009

Green Connections is a 501c3 Not-for-Profit corporation committed to helping
people connect with Earth, be healed in it and learn to live more
sustainably. In addition to supporting the mission of Turtle Rock Farm, our
dream is to build a retreat center and hermitages with sustainable building
methods, including straw bale construction. We now have straw bales in the
barn! And, thanks to those who came to our Dinner and Concert on the
Prairie, as well as other supporters, we are on our way. 

If you believe in the work of Green Connections, please consider gifting us
with your supportive wishes and hopes, with your volunteer labor, and with
your dollars. Even a small amount now and then would be appreciated. If you
have questions, please call 580.725.3411 or 580.917.6011.

We are seeking sponsors...

...for the Straw Bale Workshop. Considering being a sponsor of this
educational event in the amount of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $250 or less.

...for the Prairie Dinner and Concert. 

And we are seeking grants and donations for the building of a retreat
center.

You may send tax deductible donations to Green Connections, 5900 CR 90, Red
Rock, OK 74651. Or, go to our website - www.turtlerockfarmretreat.com
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and use Paypal to send your donation. Or, click here:

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uby&undefined_quantity=1&business=annmcferron at hotmail.com&image_url=&return=
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ng=0&currency_code=USD&item_number=&cmd=_xclick> Donate

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Green Connection Board members meet the Alpaca

Meet our board members:

Green Connections: Beverly Alexander (treasurer), Elizabeth Box Price,
Dorothy Gray, Pat Hoerth, Stephanie Jordan, Ann McFerron, Mary Moloney, Alan
Ware (president.) 

Turtle Rock Farm Advisory Council: Barbara Hagan, Bruce Johnson, Tom Temple,
Corey Williams

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We Support the Buy Fresh Buy Local Movement

Buying locally-grown food saves fossil fuel, supports our local growers and
provides fresher and more nutritious food. What food you can't grow
yourself, consider buying directly from a producer/farmer, a farmer's market
or the Oklahoma Food Coop. To find out about becoming a member of the
Oklahoma Food Coop, go to: www.oklahomafood.coop. Information about the work
of the Oklahoma Chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local (including food guides and
reasons to buy local) is at: www.buyfreshbuylocalok.com
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Turtle Rock Farm LLC:
A Center for Sustainability, Spirituality
 and Healing
Mission Statement

Connecting with the Natural World

We believe that Earth - part of the Creator's good creation - has intrinsic
value. 

We believe that human beings are interdependent with all of creation and
that the Creator is calling humans to re-connect with creation, with Earth, 

and participate more consciously in the web of life. We want to provide 

opportunities for people to experience our connectedness with creation 

in three distinct ways: 

+ organizing and leading retreats that afford people the experience of our 

connection and interdependence with the web of life: all of creation, each
other and the Divine.

+ promote healing - of Earth, creation and humans, through connecting with 

Earth which, we believe, can heal us - as well as through the various
modalities of holistic health care including Energy Kinesiology. 

Learning to Live Sustainably 

+ living sustainably and teaching and supporting others in their efforts to
live sustainably. By sustainability, we mean honoring, bringing, enabling
life rather than harming and disposing of life; learning practical things to
do to sustain life on Earth. Because we believe this is done in community,
we hope to promote community life.

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Morning Over the Prairie - 30 September 2009

Thanks Mom and Dad

Gifts

Consider giving a retreat at Turtle Rock Farm as a gift for a friend or
loved one. Perhaps a weekend getaway or one of our scheduled retreats or
workshops. Email us at pathoerth at hotmail.com or annmcferron at hotmail.com. Or
call 580.725.3411 or 580.917.6011.

Turtle Rock Farm LLC
5900 CR 90
Red Rock, OK 74651
580.725.3411
annmcferron at hotmail.com
pathoerth at hotmail.com
www.turtlerockfarmretreat.com
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