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.