Welcome to The Mountain

Come join us on The Mountain's Farm. Events happen monthly on Sundays. Learn more about wild edibles, growing your own mushrooms, or feast on some of our forest and farm favorite foods. 

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Events to look out for in 2023/2024

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Farm Camp 

Adult Farm Camp 

Fall Farm Fest

Various Workshops

Farm to Table Dinners

​Fall 2023 - Registration is OPEN

PALs Planning: October 20-22 

Elementary CON: November 3-5

Intermediate CON: November 17-19

Senior High CON: December 1-3

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Spring 2024 - Registration Coming Soon

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PALs Planning: January 19-21, 2024

Elementary CON: March 8-10, 2024

Intermediate CON: February 23-25, 2024

Senior High CON: March 22-24, 2024

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The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany is an inclusive community called to seek and follow Jesus Christ. We welcome all people in the Eucharistic fellowship of Christ’s Body. We receive strength and encouragement at the common table to carry out Christ’s work of reconciliation in our broken world. Nourished by worship and witness, learning and teaching, fellowship and service, we strive to live out the Gospel’s radical values with gladness of heart.

Private Event

Please join us for a weekend of summer camp living and a celebration of our love on the mountain top where we met.

Forest to Table Dinner – 4:00pm -8:00pm

2 hour walk about with beverage/snack break, meal @6:00pm (some may just want to eat the meal), enjoy a meal made from our farm, dessert and musical entertainment, vending wares.

We are committed to creating safe, sacred space that is open to all spiritual paths, wherein men who love men may explore and strengthen spiritual identity.

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We are committed to creating a spiritual community with the intent to heal, nurture our gifts and potential, and live with integrity in the world.

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We are committed to supporting others in their spiritual growth by sharing experiences and insights.

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Please go to the Gay Spirit Visions website for more information: 

Unitarian Universalist Womenspirit is a biannual spiritual retreat for women from all walks of life. We gather recognizing that we have journeyed on varied paths to Spirit: earth-based, indigenous tribal, Christian, Hebrew, Wiccan, Buddhist, and more. We gather to honor the manifestation of the Feminine Divine in our own deep beings, in each other, and in the world around us.

Forest to Table Dinner – 4:00pm -8:00pm

2 hour walk about with beverage/snack break, meal @6:00pm (some may just want to eat the meal), enjoy a meal made from our farm, dessert and musical entertainment, vending wares.

Join our congregation for a restful weekend of inter-generational connections. Experience the mountain retreat and learning center again or for the first time while deepening relationships with fellow congregants. Take a workshop, go for a hike or just sit on the balcony and enjoy spectacular views of the mountains.

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Registration restricted to Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville members, friends and invited guests

Promoting Religious Freedom, Spiritual Growth and Ethical Action 

Join UUCA Men's Fall Retreat for a restful weekend of connections. Experience the mountain retreat and learning center again or for the first time while deepening relationships with fellow congregants. Take a workshop, go for a hike or just sit on the balcony and enjoy spectacular views of the mountains.

Tom & Donna are deeply committed to supporting healers and massage therapists to live from their hearts, heal themselves, thrive in their chosen practice and learn to walk a path of service while honoring their own journey.

We recognize that creating the beloved community is up to all of us, that loving the hell out of the world is a full-time job, and that, wherever else it may be, salvation is most readily found among friends.

Private Group Retreat

OurSong is comprised of musicians from all walks of life with varying levels of musical experience.  Some members hold degrees in music, some grew up singing in church, some have performed with famous artists and conductors and some have joined OurSong as their first foray into choral music.  However, all of us sing with OurSong because we love to sing.  We love the gift that making music brings to our lives and we love sharing that gift with our audience.

Unity Weekend is a fellowship of men and women who gather together to celebrate recovery by taking part in events, meetings, workshops and activities at The Mountain. We cultivate + cherish memories that last a lifetime, by participating in Unity + Fellowship. We are NOT a glum lot.

This private retreat will include 6 hours of ministerial development time led by Rev. Meghann Robern. More info to come on the specific topic(s).

And, we know that folks need a break when they come to the mountain, so there will be a fair amount of unstructured time, too.

Private Group Retreat.

Rev. Gary McAlpin and his famiily of the Cherokee Nation in Talequah, Oklahoma will join us to facilitate workshops and engage in conversation as we build community together. Gary, a Unitarian Universalist minister, was part of The Mountain Climate Justice Conference in 2019 and he is looking forward to participating in this program as well.

Private Group Retreat

We are committed to creating safe, sacred space that is open to all spiritual paths, wherein men who love men may explore and strengthen spiritual identity.

​​

We are committed to creating a spiritual community with the intent to heal, nurture our gifts and potential, and live with integrity in the world.

​

We are committed to supporting others in their spiritual growth by sharing experiences and insights.

​

Please go to the Gay Spirit Visions website for more information: 

Private Group Retreat

Private Group Retreat

Private Group Retreat

Rest, relax, play games, hike, enjoy the fellowship of TVUUC family and friends, and bask in the peace of The Mountain!

Registration Opens November 2, 2023

Private Group Retreat

Coming Soon

Registration Opens December 1, 2023

Come to The Mountain to enjoy Music Week. Each day you will enjoy opportunities for group and individual participation and instruction in songwriting, guitar, voice, ukulele and more. You can venture in lightly, explore something new, or dig in deeper and hone your craft. There will be plenty of music appreciation sessions.

We are a congregation that has historically stood for the civil rights of all people, especially those affected by racism and homophobia.

We are a Welcoming Congregation, celebrating and affirming the active presence in our congregation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual members and friends and their families. We are actively engaged in dialogue about how to be a more racially diverse, multicultural, anti-oppressive congregation.  

The Highlands Retreat is an annual weekend-long gathering of the LGBTQIA+ community and their friends celebrating recovery and those interested in finding out what recovery has to offer.

The Retreat offers the perfect blend of workshops and activities as well as an opportunity to meet and fellowship with others in recovery from different parts of the country.

We are committed to creating safe, sacred space that is open to all spiritual paths, wherein men who love men may explore and strengthen spiritual identity.

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We are committed to creating a spiritual community with the intent to heal, nurture our gifts and potential, and live with integrity in the world.

​

We are committed to supporting others in their spiritual growth by sharing experiences and insights.

​

Please go to the Gay Spirit Visions website for more information: 

UUWomenspirit is a biannual spiritual retreat for women from all walks of life.

We gather recognizing that we have journeyed on varied paths to Spirit: earth-based, indigenous tribal, Christian, Hebrew, Wiccan, Buddhist, and more.

We gather to honor the manifestation of the Feminine Divine in our own deep beings, in each other, and in the world around us.

Join Grammy-nominated folk musician and songwriter, John McCutcheon, for an intense, intimate songwriting Master Class at The Mountain Retreat & Learning Center in Highlands, NC. J

oin other songwriting lovers for this remarkable event at an even more remarkable place. In between sessions enjoy breathtaking views of the Smoky Mountains, healthy, delicious homemade food, and camaraderie.

Coming in 2024

Coming in 2024

Join Grammy-nominated folk musician and songwriter, John McCutcheon, for an intense, intimate songwriting Master Class at The Mountain Retreat & Learning Center in Highlands, NC. J

oin other songwriting lovers for this remarkable event at an even more remarkable place. In between sessions enjoy breathtaking views of the Smoky Mountains, healthy, delicious homemade food, and camaraderie.

FACETS is a retreat for women conductors focused on leadership development, fostering mentoring relationships, and opportunities  for networking.

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The first FACETS conference was held in northern Georgia in July of 2016, where twenty-six women from 9 states, representing elementary, middle school, high school, college, church, and community choirs, came together to learn and teach, explore their questions, and share their experiences. 

An annual Israeli folk dance camp held during Labor Day weekend in the mountains of Highlands, NC.

In these times of continual stress when everything seems to converge in more mayhem and mischief, we are called to be in community. We need to be with one another. We need to deepen our connections within the natural and unseen worlds by immersing in the encantos that sing us back to Life!

Coming in 2024

We are committed to creating safe, sacred space that is open to all spiritual paths, wherein men who love men may explore and strengthen spiritual identity.

​​

We are committed to creating a spiritual community with the intent to heal, nurture our gifts and potential, and live with integrity in the world.

​

We are committed to supporting others in their spiritual growth by sharing experiences and insights.

​

Please go to the Gay Spirit Visions website for more information: 

UUWomenspirit is a biannual spiritual retreat for women from all walks of life.

We gather recognizing that we have journeyed on varied paths to Spirit: earth-based, indigenous tribal, Christian, Hebrew, Wiccan, Buddhist, and more.

We gather to honor the manifestation of the Feminine Divine in our own deep beings, in each other, and in the world around us.

Coming in 2024

Promoting Religious Freedom, Spiritual Growth and Ethical Action 

At Unity Atlanta Church, we empower you to realize your indwelling Divinity, and we provide abundant opportunities for you to transform yourself, your life, your community, and our world.

Strengthened by our common humanity and inspired by our seven principles, we promise

• to be a safe and welcoming community;

• to nurture each other’s hearts and spirits;

• to delight in the beauty of our diversity;

• to struggle together on our spiritual journeys;

• and to challenge each other to live our values.

Celebrate life in all its joy and mystery.
Inspire journeys of truth and meaning.
Engage in practice and service for love, justice and peace.

OurSong is dedicated to performing high quality music while celebrating our unique gay and lesbian experience and our evolving place in the world.