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.

Have you ever apologized because your mind or your heart was ‘somewhere else’ than where your body was at the time? When we’re pulled in many directions, we can feel like we’re in the ‘middle of nowhere’.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan tells the moving  story of a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family —a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota—where she finds that their sacred land is threatened.

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

We live amid a time of great loss and upheaval. The roots of our challenges - as well as the path toward healing - lie in the way we understand our relationships within ourselves, within our families, within our spiritual traditions, within the community of creation, and within the ongoing realities of colonialism.

Trees, trees, trees! Come celebrate Arbor Day at the Mound with a lovely hike through our forests discussion the arboreal giants that live among us. This is an outdoor activity and we will be hiking on and off trail so be sure to bring sturdy hiking boots and weather appropriate clothing.

Story lives in place. In this Native Lands Tour we'll travel to a number of sites around Fayette, Iowa where the Ho-Chunk were forced during the so-called "neutral ground" period of the 19th century.

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.

Join us at the Mound for a spring Forest Bathing experience where we bathe in the good medicine of Mother Earth. Nature and Forest Therapy, also called Forest Bathing, is a slow, sensory focused walk with the land. There are two options; 10 a.m. to 12 noon or 2-4 p.m.

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

"Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, writes from a place of love for her community and shares some key teachings from her culture, even mixing languages within the context of the story."

Fire and song, ritual and community, prayer and quiet: this inclusive, outdoor gathering is centered on  honoring the longest day of the year - the sacred time of Summer Solstice on the sacred land of Sinsinawa Mound.