JAR Farms co-founder Athena Goldstein leads workshops on the environmental toll of fast fashion and fast furniture and how to upcycle your way out of the addiction. At this evening fundraiser, you’ll hear from the extraordinary teens who have spent the summer upcycling their way back into Mother Earth’s good graces. What’s more: You can buy what they’ve produced!

Proceeds from furniture sales will go to extending the JAR Farms mission via scholarships for those who can’t afford tuition. You’ll leave with more unique, beautiful, upcycled items than you could have bought at the store, but also you’ll be honoring the angst our generation feels about the planet and our efforts to be the change we want to see.

Jennifer Smorgon has taught meditation and helped build family workshops and practices all over the world. She will co-teach this session with her son Evan who has been meditating since he was a toddler!

Jennifer will demystify the “woo” from the science of meditation and help you create a flexible, practical practice that works for you, gets the results you need, and creates a new family routine to stop, breathe and be in the moment together.

Holiday madness is approaching. Thankfully, Dr. Paul Hokemeyer author of Fragile Power can help you put together a game plan.

Did you know that there are two proven ways to actually calm the amygdala, the part of the brain involved in processing emotions such as fear and anxiety?

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Kim Norman MD, who will lead us through the research after dinner.

Join us on a one-day interactive workshop exploring the intersection between neuroscience and wellness. Driven to explore this work by her own curiosity and wellness needs, this workshop is the culmination of Olivia Felson’s independent study. Parents and teens exploring holistic therapies and modalities is everything JAR Farms represents and we are thrilled to share this workshop with teens and parents!

Few things are as powerful as telling your own story, and few things feel as destabilizing as having someone determine your story for you.

When someone feels control over their own narrative and how others perceive them, the amygdala physically changes, often reducing anxiety and depression, through nothing more than your words. Learning to write, tell and live in your own story can help us figure out where we fit in the world, demand our place in it, and be the unapologetic and unique person we are meant to be.

Superstar author Angie Kim is coming to JAR Farms for a teen writing workshop, but. . . hey! What about the moms? We decided to throw a party for the entire community while she is here. Angie will talk about her New York Times Bestselling Book (and also Good Morning America book club pick!) “Happiness Falls” which is being made into a movie.

Being an author is Angie’s FIFTH career— born of a breakdown in Whole Foods over her stress as a working mom. She’s an incredible inspiration to never settle or give up on your passions.

We’ll have beer and wine, farm-to-table appetizers and both of Angie’s incredible books for sale!

Dreading Thanksgiving because your beloved grandpa will lecture you yet again on how climate change is a hoax? Go off on pronouns? This weekend workshop is for you! (And we’ve got a world renowned expert in the works!!)