Celebrate the land
in community with others
Spring/Summer 2024 Events
Gemmo Forest is at 136 Hurricane Road, Keene, NH
May 4, 2024 | 2-4 pm
Gemmo Community Gathering
and Land Blessing Ceremony
- Ceremonial gathering on the land and planting of the first trees/shrubs
May 5, 2024 | 9 am -12 noon
Gemmo Forest Project Morning
- Create a permaculture-style forest guild
June 22, 2024 | 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Summer Solstice, Ceremonial Gathering
and Forest Project Day
Come welcome the expansive season of summer in the Gemmo Forest. Discover the only Gemmo Forest in America, learn how we cultivate and care for our 12.5 acres, and take home ideas to integrate into your own landscape.
SCHEDULE:
9:00 – 9:15 am : Arrival and Gathering
9:15 – 9:30 am : Welcome Summer Solstice Ceremony
9:30 am – Noon : Experience the Experiment
Join one or more of the five planned activities for varied abilities. Engage with the land and learn how we practice permaculture.
- Create chop and drop mulch
- Prepare a Hugelkultur bed for the Tea Garden
- Tend a guild
- Assist with barn repairs
- Build a Bugg Hugg
Noon – 1 pm Lunch Break : Sandwich Bar, GF and Vegan options
1 – 2 pm : Tuning into Summer: A sound healing workshop with Janet Kessenich M.M. | Janet Kessenich, M.M. is a workshop/retreat leader, holistic practitioner, and author who specializes in connecting participants and clients with their Essence Self – that which brings meaning, purpose, and grace into their lives. Janet leads rituals honoring the changing of the seasons through sound healing, intention setting, and divination.
Here are just a few of the current experiments underway in the Gemmo Forest.
- Use of minimimally invasive techniques of transitioning land for production: Silage tarp to Cover Crop, Light till to Cover Crop, Sheet Mulching.
- Use of an electric brush mower to reduce diesel tractor use
- Harmonizing the balance of deemed invasive species ( oriental bittersweet, autumn olive, alder buckthorn)
- Testing the medicinal qualities of Native v. European species to create Gemmotherapy extracts in collaboration with Western Romania University
- Cultivation historically used herbs for tea
- The creation of the use of a feathered edge as a wildlife corridor and habitat with production trees and shrubs and production as a transition zone to productive fields
- Cultivation and sharing of heritage seeds from the Abenaki Wabinaki tradition
June 25, 2024 | 11a – 2p
Pollinator Palooza
Meet us at Keene’s Pollinator Palooza! Buy from our organically grown perennials and learn about the Gemmo Forest.
September 21, 2024
Public Open Day
- Guided Tours of the Gemmo Forest
Come celebrate the land in community with others. Past seasonal projects have included creating new beds, planting, mulching, plant id and tagging, and minimizing invasive growth within the polyculture beds. No experience is necessary, tasks are available for all physical abilities.
Enter the Gemmo Forest at
136 Hurricane Road, Keene, New Hampshire
With a monthly donation of $10 or more, we will co-create the Gemmo Forest together.
All patrons will receive:
- An invitation to the annual Gemmo Forest Land Blessing
- Free admission to all workshops on site
- Seasonal updates on the Gemmo Forest, our latest Gemmo research and findings, and tips to create your own Gemmo Garden.
- Your choice of one locally produced extract annually
Together we can create a network of Gemmo Forests across the globe, with each forest extending a unique high dose of energy medicine to its visitors and providing locally produced extracts for the community.