Get away and come home to yourself
A weekend retreat on our farm
Writing workshops with Nina K Moore
Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2023
This weekend is about slowing down.
SLOWING AND GROWING
Get away and come home
to yourself
to yourself
A weekend retreat on our farm
Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2023
Details
What to expect
Location
Itinerary
Pricing & Accommodations
Digital Disconnection
What To Bring
Optional Farm Activities
Languages
Transportation
Registration
Alcohol & Smoking Policy
Photography
Details
What to expect
Digital Disconnection
Location
Itinerary
Pricing &
Accommodations
Accommodations
What To Bring
Optional Farm Activities
Languages
Transportation
Registration
Alcohol & Smoking Policy
Photography
Meet Your Facilitators
Nina K. Moore
Nina is a Toronto-based anxiety coach, educator, writer & mother. Her mission is to help others better understand, minimize, prevent—and thrive with—their anxiety. Nina’s work is based on her extensive teaching background (including as a TDSB elementary classroom teacher) as well as her lived experience of learning to live—well—with anxiety.
Nina facilitates cozy, memoir-oriented writing workshops for all writing levels. She has been a wwoofer for nearly 20 years. Her ten-year-old has six years of wwoofing experience. She lives in Chinatown, Toronto with her daughter.
Myriam Legault
Myriam is a writer, a mother, and an ecological farmer. Her first book of poetry was published when she was 23. She went on to write a novel about rural life which became, for a while, required reading in French schools across Ontario.
Myriam lived in Guatemala for 8 years. She helped run the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute and co-founded the Ecology and Solidarity Council, a non-profit rooted in social justice. She lives in Southern Ontario with her partner Rony and their two children, at Luna Mia Farm.
Meet Your Facilitators
Nina K. Moore
Nina is a Toronto-based anxiety coach, educator, writer & mother. Her mission is to help others better understand, minimize, prevent—and thrive with—their anxiety. Nina’s work is based on her extensive teaching background (including as a TDSB elementary classroom teacher) as well as her lived experience of learning to live—well—with anxiety.
Nina facilitates cozy, memoir-oriented writing workshops for all writing levels. She has been a wwoofer for nearly 20 years. Her ten-year-old has six years of wwoofing experience. She lives in Chinatown, Toronto with her daughter.
Myriam Legault
Myriam is a writer, a mother, and an ecological farmer. Her first book of poetry was published when she was 23. She went on to write a novel about rural life which became, for a while, required reading in French schools across Ontario.
Myriam lived in Guatemala for 8 years. She helped run the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute and co-founded the Ecology and Solidarity Council, a non-profit rooted in social justice. She lives in Southern Ontario with her partner Rony and their two children, at Luna Mia Farm.
“In the quiet countryside, with grand forests and a soothing swimming river close by, there is as much distance from the distractions of digital life as you wish to have.”
Douglas Black
“In the quiet countryside, with grand forests and a soothing swimming river close by, there is as much distance from the distractions of digital life as you wish to have.”
Douglas Black
Sign up
To register, please fill out the Registration and Inquiries form on Nina K. Moore’s website. Nina is a Slowing and Growing facilitator.
What to Expect
Once you arrive at Luna Mia Farm on Friday evening, EVERYTHING is included:
What to Expect
Once you arrive at Luna Mia Farm on Friday evening, EVERYTHING is included:
This is for you if you are
This is not for you if you are
This is for you if you are
This is not for you if you are
Location
Slowing And Growing is held at Luna Mia Farm in Chatsworth Ontario, a 2.5 hour drive from Toronto. See Map.
Itinerary
Friday Evening
(Sunset: 7:08 pm)
(Harvest Moon)
5:30 pm onwards: Arrival
6:30 pm onwards: Buffet-style dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm: Opening fire
Saturday
(Sunrise: 7:09 am)
(Sunset: 7:06 pm)
8:30 am: Breakfast around the table
(9:15-10:30 am: Buffet-style continental breakfast)
10:00 am: Guided walk around the farm. Meet the animals.
12:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Find Your Slow Writing Workshop
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30pm – 8:30pm: Evening fire
Sunday
(Sunrise: 7:21 am)
8:30 am: breakfast around the table
(9:15 am to 10:30 am Buffet-style continental breakfast)
9:30 am – 10:30 am: Hike (optional)
10:30 am: Harvest your pumpkin
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Closing ceremony
12:15 pm: Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Departure
Itinerary
Friday Evening
(Sunset: 7:08pm)
(Harvest Moon)
5:30 pm onwards: Arrival
6:30 pm onwards: Buffet-style dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm: Opening fire
Saturday
(Sunrise: 7:08am)
(Sunset: 7:06pm)
8:30 am: Breakfast around the table
(9:15-10:30 am: Buffet-style continental breakfast)
10:00 am: Guided walk around the farm. Meet the animals.
12:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Find Your Slow Writing Workshop
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30pm – 8:30pm: Evening fire
Sunday
(Sunrise: 7:21am)
8:30 am: breakfast around the table
(9:15 am to 10:30 am Buffet-style continental breakfast)
9:30 am – 10:30 am: Hike (optional)
10:30 am: Harvest your pumpkin
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Closing ceremony
12:15 pm: Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Departure
Location
Slowing And Growing is held at Luna Mia Farm in Chatsworth Ontario, a 2.5 hour drive from Toronto. See Map.
Pricing & Accommodations
Pricing & Accommodations
Rooms are on the second floor of the century old farmhouse.
Retreat guests share a bathroom (with full shower) and a kitchenette (including fridge).
Bedding and towels are provided.
Shared Room
(2 single beds)
$495 (includes HST) per person
Shared Room
(1 double bed)
$495 (includes HST) per person
Private Room
(1 single bed)
$535 (includes HST) per person
Shared Room (2 Single Beds)
$495 (includes HST) per person
Private Room (Single Bed)
$535 (includes HST) per person
Shared Room (Double Bed)
$495 (includes HST) per person
Digital Disconnection
There is no wifi at Luna Mia Farm.
If you’d like to completely disconnect, we are happy to hold your phones until your departure. You are welcome to leave our number with family or friends in case of emergency.
Please leave your phones in your rooms during meal times and writing workshops.
Digital Disconnection
There is no wifi at Luna Mia Farm.
If you’d like to completely disconnect, we are happy to hold your phones until your departure. You are welcome to leave our number with family or friends in case of emergency.
Please leave your phones in your rooms during meal times and writing workshops.
What to Bring
- Heavy sweater
- Rain coat
- When in doubt, pack that extra layer and that extra pair of socks. It can get chilly after the sun goes down.
- If you want to spend time with the animals, explore the farm, get into the garden bring shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting (really) dirty.
- Got a creative project in mind in addition to some writing? Bring your knitting, your sketchbook, your mending…
- Is there a puzzle or a book you’d like to make time for? Bring it!
- Snacks: Meals are included. And you can help yourself to coffee and tea at any time. But it’s nice to have your own snacks as well for whenever you’d like them. Guests share a kitchenette which includes a fridge, stove and kettle.
What to Bring
- Heavy sweater
- Rain coat
- When in doubt, pack that extra layer and that extra pair of socks. It can get chilly after the sun goes down.
- If you want to spend time with the animals, explore the farm, get into the garden bring shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting (really) dirty.
- Got a creative project in mind in addition to some writing? Bring your knitting, your sketchbook, your mending…
- Is there a puzzle or a book you’d like to make time for? Bring it!
- Snacks: Meals are included. And you can help yourself to coffee and tea at any time. But it’s nice to have your own snacks as well for whenever you’d like them. Guests share a kitchenette which includes a fridge, stove and kettle.
Optional Farm Activities
- Work with wool: The sheep have been sheared and we are preparing the fleece to be turned into yarn
- Feed the sheep and pigs
- Feed the chickens and ducks and collect their eggs
- Harvest seeds for next season
- Walk Clover, the playful border collie and Australian shepherd mix
Optional Farm Activities
- Work with wool: The sheep have been sheared and we are preparing the fleece to be turned into yarn
- Feed the sheep and pigs
- Feed the chickens and ducks and collect their eggs
- Harvest seeds for next season
- Walk Clover, the playful border collie and Australian shepherd mix
Languages
Although the retreat will be led in English, French and Spanish are spoken fluently on the farm. Participants are encouraged to write in any language of their choice during writing workshops.
Transportation
Luna Mia Farm is approximately a 2.5 hour drive from Toronto. Onsite parking is available to all guests. We will help coordinate carpooling when possible.
We also have contact information for a local driver who picks up passengers from Toronto and/or the Brampton Go Station. Dave, the driver, is also available on Sunday.
For those who will be arriving later, there is also a bus that runs from Pearson Airport on Fridays. It departs at 5:45pm and arrives at 8:15pm in Hanover. We will pick you up from there.
Transportation
Luna Mia Farm is approximately a 2.5 hour drive from Toronto. Onsite parking is available to all guests. We will help coordinate carpooling when possible.
We also have contact information for a local driver who picks up passengers from Toronto and/or the Brampton Go Station. Dave, the driver, is also available on Sunday.
For those who will be arriving later, there is also a bus that runs from Pearson Airport on Fridays. It departs at 5:45pm and arrives at 8:15pm in Hanover. We will pick you up from there.
Registration
Registration
To register, please fill out the Registration and Inquiries form on Nina K. Moore’s website. Nina is a Slowing and Growing facilitator.
We will be in touch within 24 hours.
We’ll set up a chat with one of us (phone/Zoom – whatever your preference) before registration is final (to answer any of your questions and to make sure it’s a good fit).
To confirm your registration, either partial ($150.00) or full-payment is required via e-transfer to [email protected]. Kindly make the password: Turtle.
You will receive email confirmation. More details will follow as the retreat approaches.
For those paying in two instalments, the remaining amount is due on September 15, 2023.
Tickets are non-refundable.
We will be in touch within 24 hours.
We’ll set up a chat with one of us (phone/Zoom – whatever your preference) before registration is final (to answer any of your questions and to make sure it’s a good fit).
To confirm your registration, either partial ($150.00) or full-payment is required via e-transfer to [email protected]. Kindly make the password: Turtle.
You will receive email confirmation. More details will follow as the retreat approaches.
For those paying in two instalments, the remaining amount is due on September 15, 2023.
Tickets are non-refundable.
Alcohol & Smoking Policy
This is an alcohol, drug, vaping and smoking-free weekend getaway.
Alcohol & Smoking Policy
This is an alcohol, drug, vaping and smoking-free weekend getaway.
Photography
You are most welcome to take pictures. If you are using your phone as a camera, consider allocating windows of time for picture taking, as opposed to snapping away the whole weekend.
We ask that you don’t post pictures of our children online.
We will also be taking pictures and will ask your permission before using your image on our websites and social media platforms.
Photography
You are most welcome to take pictures. If you are using your phone as a camera, consider allocating windows of time for picture taking, as opposed to snapping away the whole weekend.
We ask that you don’t post pictures of our children online.
We will also be taking pictures and will ask your permission before using your image on our websites and social media platforms.
Languages
Although the retreat will be led in English, French and Spanish are spoken fluently on the farm. Participants are encouraged to write in any language of their choice during writing workshops.