Join us for an epic afternoon + evening of interactive alter play, local live music, community connection & mythosomatic fire ritual.

This event is supporting Laurae Hughes to purchase the land she calls home. Laurae is a federally enrolled confederated tribal member of Siletz Indians and a long time tender of Gray Fox Farm in Chimacum, WA!

Laurae Hughes holds deep reverence for the land she has been stewarding for almost 5 years. She has spent many hours tending + loving this land, transforming it from a previous dump site, into the sacred, fertile farmland that it is today. We are holding this fundraiser so Laurae is able to continue to cultivate a deeper relationship with this land as she also supports our local LGBTQ+ & elder community with affordable housing, farm shares, primitive skills classes, sharing crops with the food bank & so much more!

A quote from Laurae herself -

"I did what I was taught. Take care of the soil. Keep it healthy. Give more than you take. Share what you have. Love what you do. Take time to lay in the soft grass under the shade giving trees and be thankful. Above all, respect everything that you touch, for it is impossible to neglect what you truly respect. I belong to these fields, as a component of its healthy balance, existing here to keep all the things that would choke it, overrun it or pave over it, at bay. In the evenings as I sip my tea, I watch the fog roll up and out of the banks of the creek, rising up like a billowing downy blanket, and I swear I can hear the earth sigh, happy and content, able to breath and provide-as is her purpose-and she is thankful for the work I do for Her.

I have donated what I grow here at the farm to local schools, day camps, veterans homes, food banks, and community members. It goes back to that small town mentality I grew up with, we’re all family, and family shares, even when the family is actually pretty darn big. I share this space with people that were once strangers, with nothing more than a shared desire to grow in the dirt, and they are my family, and I relish in their successes with them. There is still more space to share."

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:: schedule ::

August 4th - 2:00pm to 11:00pm

2-4pm Interactive Elemental Alters

4pm-4:30pm Land Intention Share

4:30-5pm Live Ambient Music by Evan Avery

5-6pm Multigenerational Conversation Panel - Laurae Hughes, Douglas Millholland, Aliko Mountain Weste & Orion Currey

6-7pm Community Connection Games with Lux Gypsum

7pm-7:30pm Raffle Basket Drawing with Yara Avery

7:30pm-10pm ish Concert - Aurora Kingslight, Jahnavi Veronica + Galen Hefferman, Arielle Therese, James Rian O'Keefe, Eric James

10pm-12am Ritual Fire + Song Circle

*Camping tickets limited*

🦋Children + Inner-children Welcome 🦋

Contact the host of Gray Fox Farm Fundraiser Festival