~ At the home & private farm gardens of Dean & Shannon Factor ~
Hidden in Los Angeles is a private estate filled with wonder, magick and over a hundred varieties of medicinal herbs, fruits and heirloom vegetables…
On May 11th, we invite you to join us in celebrating the beauty of our Mother Earth & the exquisiteness of being alive, while delighting in heart filled offerings, a performance, and being nourished by the alchemy of delicious farm fresh foods and botanical elixirs crafted with a reverence for our beloved Earth.
Dream with us
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Dream with us 〰️
Our Mission
We serve the Sacred Wild by living in devotion to the Earth Mother, by providing Earth Education, embodying non-hierarchical community and collaborating with and supporting aligned programs to bring healing to the relationship between Earth and People.
Our Vision
We are a refuge for the Sacred Wild where Mother Earth thrives and is centered by a community of stewards who embrace our sacred responsibilities as sovereign beings to nourish life and play while making Earth Medicine accessible to all. Connected by a passion for Earth education, regenerative living and shared values of devotional relationship to Self, Earth, and Spirit.
Join for our Auctions and Gifts
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Silent Auction
Curated collections of incredible offerings: One of a kind experiences, getaways, artisanal crafts and items from some of your favorite brands!
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Live Auction
Special experiences and gorgeous gifts from our beloved partners.
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Exclusive Gift Bag
Bring home a gift bag filled with potions for the body, mind and spirit.
Botanical Feast for the Senses
Crafted with organic ingredients sourced from regenerative and biodynamic farms our beautiful meal will be filled with food that feels like a love letter to the soul. Smoky grilled salads dripping in luscious warm champagne vinaigrette, slow roasted berries laid over mounds of pillowy whipped coconut cream and crispy hibiscus-marshmallow root meringues, rose infused elixirs with edible flowers and spices.
A culinary experience of nourishment channeled with Mother Earth and the wisdom of plants. Food created from a foundation of living in relationship and reciprocity. Understanding and embodying the truth that plants have a unique ability to communicate with our own cells, allowing us to learn from and be healed by them.
VIP Admission
Special cocktails, exquisite elixirs & a private guided garden tour with herbalist, garden designer & founder Marysia Miernowska
Please join us for a special welcome cocktail, tantalizing botanical elixirs and a private guided walk through the enchanting property. Meet the medical plants, fruits and veggies growing here, ask questions, and learn a bit more about how to add these plants and permaculture practices into your garden. A fun, educational, and enchanting experience!
Entertainment & Elixirs
We welcome you into our world of courting the beloved in Nature and opening our hearts and senses to the beauty of the living Earth.
Relax, sit back, and enjoy the bliss of the flower filled air, music, as you delight in the many flavors of antioxidant rich botanicals and mood enhancing medicinals that Mother Nature provides ~ all safe and deeply nutritive.
Performance & Presentation
Kumu Hula Anna Liza Kalauokekupukupu Abuan Mc Keon is an herbalist and has been a teacher of Hula for over twenty years. Trained on the Big Island of Hawaii, she unikied (graduated) under hula master, Loea Kawaikapuokalani Frank Hewett. She is the founder of three halaus in San Bernardino County, Topanga and Crestline. Kumu carries the lineage of the wise woman tradition of healing and shares the artistry of the Hawaiian history, dance and romantic mythology of Pacific Islands. She will be opening our presentation by sharing traditional dances that embody the spirits of plants, some of which are growing in the garden.
Following our invocation and welcome, Marysia Miernowska will share the inspiring ways our work has affected communities all over the world and our vision of creating Earth sanctuaries for healing the relationship between Earth and people.
Meet our Board
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Marysia Miernowska
PRESIDENT
Marysia is the founder and director of one of California’s most renowned herbal schools. She brings a lifetime of training in traditional herbalism, earth stewardship, regenerative earth care & community building. She is an author, formulator, teacher, gardener & steward of the Earth.
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Rachel Jonte
VICE PRESIDENT
Rachel brings over 20 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising & management with a background in scientific research & communications. She is a folk herbalist, ceremonialist, and devoted land-tender who helps manage a beautiful organic avocado & coffee farm in Southern California.
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Shari Boyer
SECRETARY
Shari is an experienced marketing executive with 30 years of experience in cause marketing and partnerships that benefit our public lands. Shari is a certified herbalist and author of the forthcoming Book of Modern Ceremony.
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Stephanie Paine
TREASURER
Stephanie brings 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, building businesses on the global scale ranging from the wellness industry to professional sports. Her life long philanthropic efforts in animal rescue and advocacy extend into the arts, education and enviromental causes. She is a certified herbalist, reiki master, gardener and prolific entrepreneur.
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Ella Murphy
BOARD MEMBER
Ella brings over 15 years of expertise in food as medicine, recipe development, food styling, and cookbook authorship. With a passion for regenerative farming practices, she is also actively involved in non-profit initiatives, embodying a holistic approach to sustainable food systems and community support. Ella is devoted as a chef, herbalist, teacher and food educator, offering new pathways to nourishment.
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Isabel Barreto
BOARD MEMBER
Isabel brings 15 yeas of experience as an event producer and coordinator, along with decades of experience as a guide and facilitator for transformation through movement and breath. Her work is focused in creating intuitive, heart-centered leaders for our world. She is a movement & meditation teacher, folk herbalist and earth medicine woman.
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Shannon Factor
BOARD MEMBER
Shannon brings decades of experience as a start-up consultant, documentary filmmaker and lawyer. Focused in health and wellness she tends to her regenerative urban farm and apiary, living in reciprocity with the land and crafting products to educate and care for her community. Shannon is a career coach, writer, land steward and philanthropist.
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Donate & Become a Member
Your monthly or one time donation is tax deductible and goes directly to bring our mission into fruition. We thank you for it!
Donations create scholarships and learning opportunities for marginalized and low income apprentices seeking the training to become herbalists, regenerative gardeners and change makers.
Our members are committed to creating sanctuaries for wildlife, community, healing and earth education and are currently doing so all over the world on their own properties or community gardens.
Our goal is to buy land for our Non Profit, protecting wild nature in a land conservancy trust, while creating an educational space to share regenerative principles, earth care, healing, community connection and more.
A special thank you to Viviene Zehr Benjamin
Our HEAD OF OPERATIONSViviene brings many years of experience in communication and events while working with renowned earth based education schools and tending to the experiences of young women and girls. Her work focuses on creating nurturing spaces for young women and supporting their path through her classes and gatherings. Viviene is a certified herbalist, ceremonialist, mother and education advocate.
We are a refuge for the Sacred Wild where Mother Earth thrives and is centered by a community of stewards who embrace our sacred responsibilities as sovereign beings to nourish life and play while making Earth Medicine accessible to all. Connected by a passion for Earth education, regenerative living and shared values of devotional relationship to Self, Earth, and Spirit.Our Vision
Our Mission
We serve the Sacred Wild by living in devotion to the Earth Mother, by providing Earth Education, embodying non-hierarchical community and collaborating with and supporting aligned programs to bring healing to the relationship between Earth and People.