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Teen Suicide Awareness | Maple Grove Hot Springs
School has begun, and we need to talk about teen suicide. It is an epidemic, and we can all up our game to prevent it. Today, right...
Jordan Menzel
Aug 24, 2022


"I got you!" Shoutout to Chad | Maple Grove Hot Springs
"I got you!" —Chad Artist We don't always talk about it, but first and foremost, we are a 45-acre solar-powered, off-grid, working...
Jordan Menzel
Aug 11, 2022


Farewell Sporkos | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Of all the seasonal changes we prepare for—wind, leaves, snow, heat, weeds, drought, sunshine, and shade—the hardest and most expansive...
Jordan Menzel
Aug 5, 2022


Sound Bath Series with Mountain Tribe Music | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Pioneer Day 2022 Another surreal soak for the history books from our latest Soundbath Concert Series with Mountain Tribe this past...
Jordan Menzel
Jul 25, 2022


Step Into Our General Store | Maple Grove Hot Springs
When you step into our General Store, you're stepping into a collection of wildly creative products that come from many of our fellow...
Jordan Menzel
Jul 20, 2022


Introducing Quartz Stone Shelter | Maple Grove Hot Springs
A Stone Shelter named Quartz. The first of its kind to hold refuge for Humankind. Harvested from the land it sits on. Dreamt by...
Jordan Menzel
Jul 11, 2022


Independence Day 2022 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
This upcoming holiday weekend is meant to be about freedom. A celebration of an adored American ideal—that the choices required to chart...
Jordan Menzel
Jun 29, 2022


The Business of Safe Space | Maple Grove Hot Springs
We are in the business of providing SAFE SPACE. This June, the idea of safe space has been on our minds. It’s a month colored in LGBTQ...
Jordan Menzel
Jun 7, 2022


Introducing the Gathering Pool | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Introducing our Gathering Pool. She's been on quite the journey over the last 50+ years... Once, so we've heard, she was a giant wooden...
Jordan Menzel
Jun 4, 2022


Unexpected Healing | Maple Grove Hot Springs
We often talk about the transformations that take place when we humans sit in silence up here in our mineral pools. You experience it....
Jordan Menzel
May 22, 2022


Mother's Day 2022 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
It’s Mother’s Day. So, who, or what, then, is a Mother? Around here, a Mother is a way to be. A way to make someone feel. A line of...
Jordan Menzel
May 7, 2022


Earth Day 2022 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Listening to children reflect on Earth is like confronting a shockingly simple sermon: That it’s obviously the only one we will ever...
Jordan Menzel
Apr 21, 2022


Stone Shelters: Part Two | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Stone shelters week two—A foundation for your grandchildren. These days, so much of what is built is built to be replaced, thrown away,...
Jordan Menzel
Mar 24, 2022


Breaking Ground on the Stone Shelters | Maple Grove Hot Springs
After three years, almost to the date, of stepping in and observing this land, we have officially BROKEN GROUND on a new chapter that is...
Jordan Menzel
Mar 17, 2022


Our Stewardship Manifesto | Maple Grove Hot Springs
A crew that gongs together stays together. As a team, we have spent the last year refining one of the most important creations up here:...
Jordan Menzel
Mar 13, 2022
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