Twenty acres of breathing forest

Twenty acres of working land in Langley, BC; fields, gardens, animals, and a cedar forest at the edge of the pasture. About an hour east of Vancouver, sitting in temperate rainforest.

There's a long room where we'll sit and eat, a farmhouse and rustic barn for sleeping, glamping tents tucked into the trees, and a wood stove going most of the time.

The place is well-loved. There will be mud.

Rain, riverways, cedar trees, ocean air, mist, and fertile earth shape both the place and the experience. We're in the Fraser River watershed, where the salmon come home each year to spawn.

The week is shaped by the patience and the rhythms of a forest that does its work slowly. The land isn't a backdrop to the retreat. It's one of the teachers.

Late October in Langley is wet. We'll spend a lot of the week outside in it.

You will see sun, clouds, fog, rain, and moonlight; sometimes all in the same day. The only certainty here is constant change, each moment somehow more beautiful than the last. Temperatures will be autumnal. Not too cold.

Current forecast for Langley, BC →

The farm sits on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Matsqui, and Semiahmoo First Nations — Coast Salish peoples who have been here long before this was Langley.

We're guests, and we'll try to act like it. The week opens with an acknowledgment.

More on the First Nations thread of the week: storytelling, ceremony, and water rituals, over on the First Nations page.