PADDLING INTO THE FUTURE

On June 2, 2020 we left our Toronto home and moved to the beautiful countryside of Madoc, Ontario. We continue to create and cultivate our passions and offer our services.
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​We are excited to present opportunities for people to enjoy experiences in nature at our family property. Black River Farm & Wilderness, situated on 330+ acres of forest and farmland in Madoc Township, Hastings County, is part of our family’s intergenerational collaborative effort to protect land, conserve wild habitat, and honour our relationships with the natural world as integral to our well-being. We are the grateful students and stewards of this land.
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Black River, Farm & Wilderness, is mixed forest and field with fresh water springs in the cedar forest and the exquisite Black River to swim with.  Through a number of collaborations, it is our hope to present opportunities at Black River, Farm & Wilderness: Men's Circles, Woman's Circles, Discovering The Elements, Continuum Retreats, Individual Rites of Passage and Initiations.  

Acknowledgment of First Nations Land and People: We honour and acknowledge the Wendake-Nionwentsïo,  Mississauga, and Anishinabewaki Nation ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, on whose traditional and ancestral territories colonization is still being enacted. We strive to learn to recognize our part in the continuation of colonialism, and offer our work in a way that does no further harm. We seek to address ongoing colonial harms by supporting organizations that uplift and centre Indigenous identities, values, cultures, and rights. We invite you to take a moment to find for yourself what acknowledging means to you and how the action of repair lives in you.