Forest School + Learning Campus
Build a phased learning campus designed for families who feel that conventional schooling is not adequately preparing kids for the future. The program direction blends forest schooling, Montessori-style independence, worldschooling-inspired cultural experience, and holistic future-ready learning: meta-skills, learning how to learn, maker/DIY competency, hands-on building, technology fluency, and grounded preparation for a rapidly changing post-AI world. This strengthens intergenerational continuity and makes the village campus far more attractive for families.
Event Hosting & Programming
Hosted a range of events including disc golf and golf tournaments, weddings, health and wellness gatherings, and cultural events. This demonstrated the site’s ability to support diverse programming, attract different audiences, and operate as a multi-use destination beyond day-to-day accommodations.
Barrel Sauna
Built and installed a barrel sauna to support wellness, recovery, and daily rhythms on the land. This established the first piece of the wellness layer and immediately improved the long-stay and shoulder-season experience.
Coworking Center & Cafe
Enclose and upgrade the existing gazebo into a heated coworking pavilion with improved power, desks, lighting, and an integrated café-style kitchen for food, drinks, and casual gatherings. This creates a true daily work and social hub, supporting longer stays for remote workers and families while making the property genuinely functional for modern life.
Wellness Upgrades
Expand the wellness zone with additional sauna and hot tub capacity, plus a dedicated CrossFit-style gym. This supports daily health routines and shoulder-season comfort, strengthens the “live well here” lifestyle, and helps increase membership retention and length of stay.
Event Dome & Community Center
Construct a large, all-season event dome equipped with professional audio, lighting, and visual systems to support talks, live music, festivals, and digital or multimedia exhibitions. This creates a flexible, weather-proof cultural centerpiece that enables consistent year-round programming, attracts artists and collaborators, and opens new opportunities for performances, exhibitions, and large gatherings while strengthening the campus as a destination for events and retreats.
Regenerative Farm & Gardens
Develop a modest permaculture farm and garden system to improve food quality, beauty, education, and ecological regeneration. This can supply seasonal produce for guests and programs, support hands-on learning, and deepen the place-based identity of the village. Even at modest scale, it becomes a visible “regeneration layer” that makes the land feel alive and cared for.
Outdoor Art Trail & Nature Gallery
Develop a multi-kilometer outdoor art walk by integrating large-scale and site-specific art installations along the existing hiking trails on the back portion of the property. In partnership with festivals such as Otherworld, artists can install works during events and leave them in place, creating a permanent, evolving nature-based gallery that attracts visitors, supports cultural programming, and transforms the land itself into a walkable art experience year-round.
Festival-Ready Land Preparation
Prepare and upgrade key areas of the property to support large-scale festivals and cultural gatherings, including land clearing, grading, access routes, power distribution, lighting, and crowd flow planning. This makes it possible to host multi-day events safely and efficiently while protecting the land, expanding cultural programming, and unlocking new revenue opportunities through festivals, performances, and large gatherings.