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…
- Practice toward becoming more attentive listeners and asking open, honest, powerful questions
- 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
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.
Growing Together Resources
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Wellness in Agriculture Resources
There are many resources to support us in taking care of ourselves, our farms, and our local…
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Growing Together Retreat Facilitators
Growing Together facilitators are often previous retreat participants or supporters who enjoy holding space for others. Facilitators…
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Reflections from Retreat Participants
Through our various retreats, we have created a welcoming and trustworthy space our members of our agriculture…
Events
Events
News and Updates
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Rare Opportunity: Apply for Leadership Embodiment Workshop Held Late February
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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
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Rare Opportunity: Apply for Leadership Embodiment Workshop Held Late February
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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
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Growing Together Project to Host Spring Farmer Wellness Sampler
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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
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The Immense Power of a Pause
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“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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Apply Now for Farmer Rest Retreat: Teachings of Leaves
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Farming can bring joy, delight, and awe, from apples reddening to lambs leaping. It can also be tireless and demanding. The energy and attention required to tend and harvest abundant
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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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.
