Help Us Tend the Spring!
Twelve years ago, a small group of people in Floyd County started something they couldn't quite name yet: a community built around the belief that when you support what is most alive in a person, it grows, and that growth ripples out, affecting others and the world around them.
That is still what Springhouse is today. Not simply a program. Not a model. A living community that requires tending, care, and commitment.
What we're building, slowly and intentionally over many years, is a response to a question that belongs to this moment: What does it take for a community to remain not just functional, but genuinely life-giving? Where young people grow into adulthood through real work and real relationships. Where adults continue to grow in how they live and lead. Where land is not background, but belonging.
When a way of life is lived with depth and integrity, it becomes visible and it ripples out. Through relationships, through people who carry it into other places, through a growing field of communities locally and around the world who are seeking and shaping ways of living that contribute to thriving. Springhouse is part of that field. We learn from it, contribute to it, and walk alongside others within it. This is how change happens: not only through ideas, but through places where communities practice a vital way of living over time.
This June, we're raising $120,000 to sustain the staff, the land, and the practices that keep this community alive, and to support what's next, including deeper work with adults, working with land and creativity to make food and art, and attuning to the seasons year round.
You are not just supporting an organization. You are tending a spring, one that nourishes not only this place, but ripples out to inspire and nourish people and places beyond.
Will you help us tend the spring?
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