“This experience was a huge step out of bounds for me. Recently I've put a lot of pressure on myself to meet my own expectations and thinking of what I should be doing, but being able to learn about and explore new opportunities has allowed me to expand my perception of the future. I feel more confident to step out of my comfort zone to try something new. Walking away is bittersweet..but I am so EAGER to take the next steps in discovering who I want to become, and how I can continue to learn and grow in character.“
SHAYLA, 2023 ALUMNI
KINGSTON FELLOWSHIP
"My experience has been really different - different from where I came from and the things that my family has done. I am pretty sure I am the first family member that has experienced being on a farm for a month, like we did during Oikos at Hawthorne Valley! Some highlights were learning how to make a fire with Luke, woodworking, and really learning how to build all kinds of things.“
REYLYNN, 2023 ALUMNI
KINGSTON FELLOWSHIP
"What does this actually look like? It (can look) like eight young people (that’s us!) living in a communal home, stewarding a garden, and collectively participating in a bunch of courses/workshops/trainings with educators from the bioregion. The ten months together offered us a chance to explore a huge variety of ecologically regenerative practices— including natural building, regenerative agriculture, cooking, food processing, permaculture design, biodynamic farming, herbalism, foraging, & medicine making— alongside a breadth of socially regenerative practices—anti-racist organizing, regenerative economics, shared leadership and cooperative movements, nonviolent & relational communication, spiritual/ancestral healing modalities, and many more.”
Lila, 2020 ALUMNI
HAWTHORNE VALLEY FELLOWSHIP