RSVP Equinox Volunteer Weekend 3/31-4/2 2023
Bring your hearts and hands to this beautiful land, and learn more about the landscape of Oak Woodlands and Meadows we share in N. California at this time of the Returning of the sun, Re-membering regenerative fire cycles, Clearing the last season and Planting for the new!  

Free of Charge: Enjoy a room in a lodge  or cabin (some will be shared friends/family), simple and heart-full Breakfasts and Saturday Dinner, good camaraderie, and dirt on your hands!
We plan to keep this a Healthy weekend, which means we will work to make sure activities are outside and at enough distance, and we request folks come well. (Covid test ahead of time)

RB Office Hours and Contact Info is at bottom of this RSVP form

Here's the Link to this form so you can share with others who will be coming with you (All participants need to fill out this RSVP. Link provided below where you'll list friends/partners/spouses you're coming with)     

Schedule & Other Details:
Friday
Friday Arrival: Between 3 pm- 7:30 pm.
or Saturday by 10 am
(if you arrive by 10 am Saturday, we request that you come first to the gathering, and get situated later).

Friday Dinner: Vegetarian Soup and Bread served from 6:30-8 pm. 

Saturday 
9-9:30 am: Gluten Free Breakfast available (with eggs) coffee & tea, etc.

10 am - 12:30 pm:
Learning the Land and Land Stewarding 

12:30 - 2 pm: BYO Lunch, hike, rest

2-5 pm:  Land Stewarding and Sharing Experiences of the day

6/6:30-9 pm:  Supper, and Fire and stars for those who wish (Weather dependent)

The Dining Room will be open if needed as a place for folks to spread out for the evening. 

Sunday 

9-9:30 am: Simple, GF breakfast with eggs coffee & tea, etc.

10 am -12 pm
Land Stewarding Options and Closing circle. 
(if you need to leave by 11 am, let us know.)

You're welcome to stay as late as Sunset time on the land! Or you could book the cabin with your friends until the next day for a very discounted price.

A few ways we’ll get to feel the pulse of this season (and learn more about this land): 

Clearing for health and in preparation for fire season! (Focusing on Eucalyptus grove to clear undergrowth and “laddering fuels” as well as  others)

Clearing to make way for baby oaks ready to grow, clearing for health of the grandparent Oaks.   

Clearing to support balance, through the removal of invasive weeds that can easily take over.

Tending Soil -  Readying Garden beds.  Clearing, weeding, possibly sowing. 

Planting and Supporting Baby Trees  - Supporting the next generation for our Riparian areas  

Reconnecting with Fire and Honoring the Sun and Regenerative Carbon Cycles:  Burning in ways that create biochar that can sequester that ancient sunlight for the good of soil health!

Open to Mystery - Help us create a "hidden" path through the woods on the way to the campground

Lodging Info: We will offer each guest or guest group their own room/s  in shared lodging.  We will use lodges with multiple entrances and bathrooms to offer as much space as possible to support everyone's health. We plan for it to feel spacious.


Meals:  Will be offered in way that folks can eat inside, outside or in their cabins. 

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As of Tuesday 2/28 3 pm: we are tentatively "full" but definitely taking a wait list.  Please do continue to RSVP as it is likely we will find a spot for you if someone else cannot come! Thank you.

Exception: If your friend/spouse already officially RSVPd and wrote your name in their RSVP and you are now RSVPing, we have already accounted for you, and just awaiting your RSVP. Thanks.
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Please Indicate the names of anyone else who will be coming with you & their ages; How many (and what type, Queen or Single) beds you will need.  REQUIRED: EACH Person Joining Must Fill out this RSVP, but please indicate the person you are coming with/want to share room or bed with so we plan for your sleeping accommodations appropriately. You can easily share this link (same one) with your friends/partners:  https://forms.gle/QAp1vworJufPJhd29
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Kitchen Angels! (Ideally, contributes half hour to one of these to support the gift of sharing nourishment together) 
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Please indicate that you understand that your commitment and/or your family & friends' commitment to coming is very important to us.  
Please come unless you or they are ill or have some other urgent necessity to cancel.
We will be purchasing food and preparing the materials for the number of people we expect, and this entails significant investment of staff energy and RB financial resources. Thank you for your understanding and support!
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Please indicate your estimated arrival and departure times (and any others in your group, if they are different) Please plan to stay through Sunday 11:30/12 pm, or if you cannot, consider a small donation as part of a generative reciprocity for the costs of hosting.
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Please indicate that you know you will need to provide your own dinner Friday night and Saturday lunch.  The gathering concludes before Sunday lunch. 
A variety of wonderful food is easily available in Boonville and Philo.  (We will send you a list of all the options! )
Please indicate any mobility needs or any other support you would need to participate in activities offered in which there could be some lifting, moving, kneeling, trails, etc. 
Do you have particular skills you'd like us to know about as we plan our time together?  
(Experience planting or sowing seeds, tending fire for biochar for instance.  Or could be musical  or poetic to share around a fire) 
Let us know if you any particular health or safety concerns? Thanks.  *

River's Bend office hours are Tuesday - Friday, 12 - 5 p.m. PST.  

Phone: 707-895-3990

Email: info@riversbendretreat.org



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