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An Emergency Appeal from Spirit Hollow
Help Keep Our Programs alive This Winter
Spirit Hollow is in crisis.
Without adequate warning, the U.S. Forest Service and the Ruffed Grouse Society have begun an industrial-scale logging operation directly on our eastern border. They never notified us—an abutting landowner—nor invited us into any public comment process. Now, massive machinery operates from dawn to dusk, seven days a week, in a football-field-sized “landing zone” just 100 feet from our property line.
For 25 years, this sacred forest has held, loved, and transformed hundreds and hundreds of participants. We, Tracey and Robbie, Spirit Hollow stewards, are devastated. While our 100 acres remain “forever wild,” the forest just across Oracle Brook has been obliterated in less than a week by a fleet of monster machines. They are now consuming their way up Grass Mountain, where they plan to cut acres and acres of trees.
All of our programs depend on silence, solitude, and immersion in wild land. With the nonstop roar of slasher saws, loaders, and trucks, it is now impossible to hold programs at Spirit Hollow.
We asked the USFS and RGS to work around our already-planned program schedule. They refused. We asked them to reimburse the cost of relocating our programs. They refused.
We have secured a nearby venue that can host our winter programs, but it costs $500/day—a total of $15,000 (for the four-month duration of the logging operations December - March). Participants have already paid tuition, so we cannot pass on this unanticipated expense to them.
We are asking for your help.
If Spirit Hollow has touched your life, your family, or your community—or if you believe in the necessity of sanctuaries where people can reconnect with soul and with the living Earth—we invite you to support us through this emergency.
Your contribution will directly cover the cost of renting a temporary home for our programs so that Spirit Hollow can continue offering the work it has devoted itself to for the past 25 years.
Every gift helps. Every gift matters.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with us in this moment of crisis and protecting the future of Spirit Hollow.
Make a Donation
Your support in this moment will help us keep our programs alive through the winter. Any amount you give goes directly toward covering the emergency venue costs created by the logging operation. Thank you for helping us bridge this crisis.
All donations are tax-deductible.
UPDATE
WE DID IT!
Earth Craft Community, Summer 2025.
Applications are open for early summer 2026
EARTH CRAFT RESIDENCY
A Week-Long Incubator in Generating Soul-Centric, Life-Enhancing Community
May 29-June 6th, 2026
Thank You for Your Incredible Generosity
Because of this extraordinary community, we didn’t just meet our $15,000 goal… we nearly DOUBLED it in LESS THAN A WEEK!
What began as an emergency became a profound remembering: that Spirit Hollow is held by a vast, loving web of people from all over the world.
Old friends, new friends, kindred spirits we may never meet in person — you showed up with generosity, prayers, and fierce love for this land and this work. In a moment of deep disruption and grief for the forest, you answered with care, solidarity, and hope.
Your gifts will not only carry our winter programs through forced relocation — they are helping protect the future of Spirit Hollow itself and steady this place during a time of rupture.
The funds we received beyond our goal will go into an Emergency Fund that will support us beyond April, should the USFS continue their logging later into the year (they have a three-year contract) and we need to continue to rent the alternate venue.
With gratitude that lives in our bones, thank you for standing with Spirit Hollow, for believing in sanctuaries of soul and Earth, and for reminding us that community is stronger than any machinery.
And this is not the end of the story.
This summer, we will invite you back to the land — to gather in circle, to offer love and healing, to grieve what has been lost and celebrate what endures, and to listen deeply to Earth so we may learn what balm is needed and what the beings who dwell here are asking of us.
More soon, from all of us at Spirit Hollow
Affected Ongoing & Upcoming ProgramS
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