Project Leads: Violet Stone
Welcome to Growing Together
We are a community of farmers, earth-workers, educators and change-makers from many cultures and backgrounds. Our lives are connected through acts of growing food and growing people. We share a common hope of creating more peace, connection and trust in our rural and urban communities. This project primarily serves New York State.
“What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Growing Together Project offers...
- Retreats, workshops and programs that center and celebrate our common humanity
- Wellness programs that weave in movement, meditation, rest practices, song, writing, art, and wisdom from many global traditions
- Discernment Circles for farmers and earth-workers to receive support while navigating complex questions and challenges.
- Facilitation support for farmers, educators and changemakers who want to create spacious, inclusive, heart-centered programs around themes of wellness, healing, purpose, courage, connection and community
- Practice toward becoming more attentive listeners and asking open, honest, powerful questions
Military Veterans who Tend the Land Retreat, 2025
Teaching of Leaves: Let go, Lay down, Rest & Rejoice, 2024
Coming Home to Self & Community, 2023
Sponsored by the Cornell Small Farms Program and Northeast SARE
This project is supported by the Equitable Farm Futures Initiative funded by New York State Agriculture and Markets and the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under sub-award number SNE23-010-NY funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Wellness in Agriculture Resources
Tom & Sea: A Story of Farmer Friendship
Facilitators Past & Present
Reflections from Retreat Participants
Events
Events
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Leadership Embodiment Workshop for Farmers and Educators
Light on the Hill Retreat Center 209 Blake Hill Rd, Van Etten, NY, United StatesLeadership Embodiment - A Workshop Informed by the Japanese non-aggressive martial art of Aikido, Mindfulness practices & Posture awareness Would you like to navigate the impact of stress and intensity…
$100.00
News and Updates
Would you like to navigate the impact of stress and intensity in your work and life more skillfully, with curiosity and compassion? Would you enjoy connecting with others from diverse…
Farmers, earth-workers and growers from across the Finger Lakes region are invited to gather together for an upcoming farmer wellness event, hosted by our Growing Together project. Join us to…
“The pause is a place of immense potential and power. Cultivating a relationship to the pause means cultivating a relationship to possibility.” – Octavia Raheem Farmers & earth workers know…
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About Violet Stone
Violet's work focuses on creating retreats, workshops and programs for the agricultural community centered on themes of connection, wellness, purpose, integrity and courage. She sees this work as contributing to a more inclusive ‘culture’ of agriculture where all voices are warmly welcomed, honored and celebrated, including the voices of our ‘inner teachers’, sometimes referred to as 'spirit' or 'soul'. Violet serves as the NY SARE Coordinator and can help farmers and educators navigate NESARE grant opportunities.
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