Genesis Farm
Genesis Farm was founded as an affiliate of GEA in 1980 by Miriam Therese MacGillis. It is a center for environmental and world order learning, and for workshops and seminars that explore the sacred human-earth connection.
Genesis Farm is a learning center for Earth studies. We focus on the connections between the health of our global commons of air, water, land and nature, and the health of our local communities and bioregions. We root ourselves in a spirituality that reverences Earth as a primary revelation of the divine.
Genesis Farm offers a variety of residential and non-residential programs, including an accredited masters-level course in Earth Literacy, on our 226-acre farm in northwest New Jersey. We invite you to come to Genesis Farm to take part in our work.
Vision
Genesis Farm attempts to address the basic issues of our time in concert with other people. It was founded to make this land and its facilities available to all people of good will. Here we raise serious questions about the global crises and evoke the rich spiritual insights that are already within the hearts of all people. Genesis Farm focuses on the connections between the health and sustainability of Earth itself and the health of human communities as experienced in particular bioregions. Most importantly, we support individuals to become part of creating that health, both inwardly and outwardly.
Biologists, physicists and other scientists continue to adjust their perceptions of Earth as a living organism in its own right. Their writings make it ever more clear that human beings must alter their most basic perceptions about themselves and Earth; that the survival of the human species must be considered within the broader context of how nature is surviving, how the air, water, and soil nutrients are faring in their ancient but newly challenged cycles and patterns.
We realize there are no easy or quick answers. We try to learn more and experiment with changing ourselves and our own behavior. We recognize the difficulty of this, and encourage ourselves to be creative and hopeful rather that discouraged or paralyzed into non-action.
Genesis Farm is rooted in a belief that the Universe, Earth, and all reality are permeated by the presence and power of that ultimate Holy Mystery that has been so deeply and richly expressed in the world's spiritual traditions. We try to ground our ecological and agricultural work in this deep belief. This Sacred Mystery, known by so many religious names, is the common thread in our efforts.
Genesis Farm
41A Silver Lake Road
Blairstown, NJ 07825
Phone: (908) 362-6735 Fax: (908) 362-9387
info@genesisfarm.org