Forest Council

Heartwood Reunion

Heartwood hosts two main events each year: the Forest Council in the Spring and the Heartwood Reunion in the fall.

Every year since the spring of 1991, the Forest Council has been held over the three-day Memorial Day holiday weekend in late May. A different Member Group hosts this event in their home bioregion, and the format and agenda of the weekend is designed to bring the attention and support of the Heartwood community to bear on locally significant issues.

The first Heartwood Reunion was held in the fall of 1995, and has been held every year since at the Lazy Black Bear, a privately owned farm surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in southern Indiana where Heartwood first began as a discussion around a dinner table one winter night.  Heartwood is sponsoring the 20129 Resurgence Convergence, a special event held in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois on the federal holiday weekend formerly known as Columbus Day, now officially celebrated by many states and municipalities in the US as Indigenous People’s Day.

Heartwood events are open to all and we welcome new guests as friends! We are committed to creating Safer Spaces in accordance with the Jemez Principles. Heartwood invites volunteers to help with the many aspects of the logistics, from washing dishes to adulting the kids’ activities, there is always work trade available to defray registration costs. Contact us to find out how to support our events as a co-sponsoring organization, business, or other funding underwriter.