May 7-11 2026
In Person & Online
The Earth Needs Repair. We Know How.
Let’s Do It Together
Historic Fort Worden State Park & Conference Center
Port Townsend, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula
What We’re Here To Do
To share what we know, learn what we don’t, meet the people doing the work and build the path forward — across the next decade and beyond.
Maps the repairs we need to make and the solutions already in hand. From ancient forests to ocean floors, from soil microbes to atmospheric carbon, we lay out what’s broken, what’s healing and what works.
Celebrates what we’ve accomplished — individually and together. The news is better than you think. Millions of people on every continent are already doing this work. We bring their stories, their science and their hard-one wisdom into one room.
Offers something rarer still: the chance to share meals, morning yoga and midnight conversations with people who love the Earth as deeply as you do. Some of the most important things that happen here won’t be on the schedule.
The Convergence:
Five Days at One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth
Fort Worden State Park sits at the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound — 434 acres of forest, beach, and historic buildings, surrounded by old-growth rainforest, a recovering river, and one of the world's most biologically rich inland seas.
Five days here. Five hundred people in person. Thousands more online.
Thursday — Field trips. An opening gala at Finnriver Farm & Cidery.
Friday — Opening Circle. Sixteen concurrent sessions.
Saturday — The deepest day. Five session periods. Evening keynotes. Midnight conversations.
Sunday — From learning to action. Working groups. Closing circle.
Monday — Final sessions. A field trip into the Olympic Rainforest.
Your Opportunities Here Are Boundless
LEARN FROM
More than 120 presenters — soil scientists and shamanic practitioners, Indigenous elders and restoration ecologists, permaculture designers and policy advocates, mycologists, agro-foresters, filmmakers, economists, and farmers. From the Pacific Northwest and from across the planet.
LEARN ABOUT
A farmer in Kenya regenerating degraded land. A mycologist in Oregon discovering how fungi can clean polluted waterways. An Indigenous elder in Alaska carrying knowledge that civilization desperately needs. A teenager in Brazil planting trees where none have grown for decades.
LEARN WITH
The soil scientist who will change how you think about your backyard. The policy advocate who will give you language for conversations you've been struggling to have. The voice in the dormitory lounge at midnight who says the thing you've been trying to articulate for years.
What You'll Find Here
Ten tracks. Hundreds of sessions. One shared purpose.
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture · Soil health, biodynamics, syntropic farming, holistic management
🌲 Forests · Agroforestry, community forests, old-growth ecology, reforestation
🌊 Oceans · Orca and salmon recovery, phytoplankton, mangroves, the Salish Sea
🍄 Fungi · Mycoremediation, mycoinsecticides, fungi in ecosystems, psilocybe stewardship
💧 Water · Watersheds, raingardens, wetlands, aquifer restoration, dam removal
🌍 Indigenous Leadership · Traditional knowledge, land back, biocultural restoration, sovereignty
🌿 Permaculture · Design principles, suburban to large-scale applications, ecovillages
🏛️ New Economics · Bioregional finance, ecosystem services, regenerative investment
🎭 Art, Music & Ceremony · Because healing the Earth is also a creative and spiritual act
🤝 Community & Governance · Social permaculture, collective wisdom, bioregionalism
Come In Person. Or Join From Anywhere on Earth.
In Person at Fort Worden — 500+ participants, field trips, shared meals, hands-on workshops, evening gatherings, and the irreplaceable experience of being in community with people who share your deepest commitments.
Online from Anywhere — 200+ virtual sessions broadcast across 72 hours, including live streams from Fort Worden, regional hubs in Africa, South America, Europe, and beyond, and recorded access after the event.
Fort Worden — A Place That Earned This Gathering
Fort Worden State Park sits at the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound. It is a campus of historic buildings on 434 acres of forest, beach, and open ground — a former military fortification slowly reclaimed by community, culture, and nature for half a century.
Outside its gates: an old-growth rainforest, a recovering river, a living inland sea, and some of the most biologically rich temperate ecosystems on Earth. There is no better classroom.
The Window Is Open.
See the Future We're Building Together.
You already know the Earth needs help. You wouldn't be reading this otherwise.
The question isn't whether to act — you're already acting, in your garden, your community, your work, your choices. The question is whether to do it alongside five hundred people who feel exactly the same way, for five days in May, in one of the most beautiful places on the Olympic Peninsula.
We are living in the narrow band of time when the knowledge, the community, and the urgency to repair the Earth have finally converged. That window will not stay open indefinitely.
Don't let this one pass.
We've worked hard to make sure cost is not the reason you don't come.
