Reverend Rachel Field

Wednesday, June 17, 4:00-5:00 PM ET

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Partnering with Creation: An Exploration in Healing with the Land

What does it mean to truly partner with the land for healing, restoration, and transformation? Together we will explore the combination of regenerative agriculture, anti-racist organizing principles, and the agency of the land as an active participant in collective healing. We will explore examples from Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest, such as: fall Michaelmas rituals, winter Wassail gatherings, and natura divina prayer practices.  Using these examples we will discuss the connections between anti-racist organizing principles, which are foundational to the work of Heartberry Hollow, and folk ritual practices in the Christian tradition.

The Reverend Rachel Field lives on a small regenerative farm in a cold hollow in the Green Mountains of Vermont surrounded by maple, ash, and hemlock. She founded Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest in 2019 and it has become a retreat center for the Episcopal Church as well as a small scale farm. She holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School (’16), a certificate in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and a certificate in Contemplative Leadership from the Shalem Institute. She is the Program Manager for An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice as well as the Priest Associate at St Mary’s in Northfield Vermont. She has been leading retreats in the Episcopal Church for 20 years, and has a deep love of working with the more-than-human world to deepen relationships with Christ and heal from internalized racism. When she’s not gardening or wrangling chickens, she can be found curled up with a good book (probably the Lord of the Rings) and her cat, Eowyn.