Through six books over twelve months, this book discussion series is an invitation to deeply engage with wisdom, pain, challenge, tragedy, beauty, history, land, and much more through the words of Native women. The first book is Patty Krawec's, "Becoming Kin."

Farming has been a way of life at the Mound since 1847, when Father Samuel Mazzuchelli founded the order of Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa. This talk will walk you through the past legacy of farming at Sinsinawa and explore where the future of farming is taking us.

At the heart of a Celtic cosmology is a deep knowing of our interconnection with nature as sacred relationship. That the human and other-than-human are intertwined, morphing and shapeshifting. That death is not the end, but is simply part of life in different form.

Sarah Barnes will guide you step-by-step in how to paint on canvas. All supplies will be provided. Bring along your family and friends for an enjoyable and creative morning!

Birds, bugs, and beauty galore! Find all this and more at the Mound this winter season. Come join us to hike and learn all about forest ecology in our little slice of the Driftless.

At this crucial racial moment it is important that all of us grapple with the connections between history, racism, land, food, Black-led agrarian projects, and possibilities for reparations.

Wendell Berry is one of our most lyrical, passionate, and important prophets writing today on issues of place, land, responsibility, hope, and health.

Join us as we welcome Andi Cloud, Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member and storyteller. Andi will share the Ho-Chunk culture with stories from life and from centuries of oratory tradition. We will gather outdoors around the fire.

Join us for a conversation between Thoreau College director Jacob Hundt and Sinsinawa Mound’s Eric Anglada for a wide-ranging conversation that will cover seasonal observances from different faith perspectives, possibilities for creating learning opportunities around the wheel of the year, and different practices for creating community and alternative education, and more! 

Have you ever looked at a potato and wondered how such a humble spud made its way into cuisine around the world? Join us and learn all about where your food really comes from and how humans domesticated and distributed some of the most common vegetables we consume today.

Mary Oliver, probably the most popular American poet of the last 25 years, explores through her poetry the natural and spiritual worlds in ways that amaze, puzzle, engage, and intrigue her readers. Join us for a lively conversation around a diverse group of her poems!

Our unconscious is like the bulk of a huge iceberg whose small tip is all we see. Ever want to go deeper? Journaling is a good way. Whether it is new to you or a continuation of past practice, come and share the experience with us!

Fire and song, ritual and community, prayer and quiet: this inclusive, outdoor gathering is centered on honoring this day of equal light and dark - the sacred time of Spring Equinox on the sacred land of Sinsinawa Mound.

Get ready for a beautiful garden this summer. Students will make 3 garden stakes out of glass which will be attached to a metal stake for indoor or outdoor use.

Design your own coordinating floral soap dish and wall hanging using a paint and frit technique. Choose a floral design or be creative and make a design of your own.

Our spirituality and responsibility to the world must begin with an awareness that we are a part of - not apart from - the living world. The garden is the model for understanding who we are as humans within sacred ground.