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   Earth Day 2026 at Balsam Moon Preserve on Wednesday, April 22, 6-8 p.m. will feature a session on Tree Seed Saving and Landscaping with Native Shrubs presented by Jim Etzel of Earth is Our Home Environmental Solutions.  Learn the “whys” and “hows” of tree seed saving, and ways to harvest/transplant native perennials and shrubs for landscaping your home and yard.

         Additional Classes this Spring include: Cheese Making 101 Saturday, May 9, 1-5pm with Julia and Jonathan Carter; Morel Mushroom Foraging on Friday, May 15, 1-5pm with Melissa Olson, Master Naturalist;  “Tending Grief with Nature” by Tanya Hanson, certified Death Doula, on Sunday, May 17, 1-4pm will guide participants through naming and honoring grief with an exercise with nature.

      Summer offerings include monthly pizza nights, foraging wild medicinals, foraging and cooking wild mushrooms, tours, StoryWalk on a trail through the woods, Transformation Game and more.  More information for each of these classes and activities may be found on the website https://balsammoonpreserve.wixsite.com/balsam.        

   Registration for all classes and activities is encouraged by calling 218-587-3808 or emailing [email protected].  Balsam Moon operates on reciprocity and sliding fee scale.

   Balsam Moon Preserve is a non-profit organization sharing an alternative, sustainable, spiritual place of peace, honoring the earth and all living things. They offer trails, workshops on site and on-line, demonstrations of solar uses and alternative building methods, gardens, a labyrinth, overnight stays, pizza nights in the summer and opportunities to gather in community sharing our common humanity. You are also welcome to come and simply walk the trails, grounds, labyrinth or sit by the pond and enjoy nature.

   Balsam Moon Preserve is located at 3148 Bungo Creek Ln SW, Pine River (6 miles west of Pine River out highway 2 and 5 miles south on CR25).  

     They acknowledge the harm done particularly to Native and Indigenous Peoples by the false narrative of a colonial perspective of history and the stories of holidays such as Thanksgiving. Given that awareness, they act with care for the Earth and all its creatures, and seek to regenerate the land by how they live on it.  

   For more information about Balsam Moon Preserve visit the website at: https://balsammoonpreserve.wixsite.com/balsam or FB, email [email protected] or call 218-587-3808.

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