Get Involved with NuAeon @ Venus Rising
Building the Future—TogetherWe are thrilled to announce our current project:
The creation of our NuAeon Retreat Camp on Donegal Lake in Stahlstown PA, a vital first step in bringing our vision of a 120-acre regenerative community to life.
This is more than just a camp. It’s a living launchpad for education, healing, and Earth stewardship, a place where we gather, build, grow, and connect as we lay the foundation for a new way of living in harmony with the planet.
We are more than a community, We are a MOVEMENT.
Join us for a Workshop / Retreat
June 13 - 15 , 2025
We are building a composting toilet bathhouse out of Pallets!
We will start small and add on. This design will include a composting toilet, a cistern to collect rain water, a sink and class 3 gray water pit. It is easy to compost our waste and keep it out of our fresh waters.
If you'd like to learn and lend a hand, come for a day or the whole weekend. Our first bell tent is arriving but for this event, we can only offer camping on the land as we build out more infrastructure.
This event is by donation. Come for a day or for the full weekend.
Please bring a Whole food, plant based dish to share.
Please be as generous as you can with your time, talent and treasure.
A Thriving Community Hub – We are offering twice monthly community gatherings, (scroll down for details), We welcome you to use the space for your events and retreats too, Space to host potlucks, workshops, ceremonies, skill shares, and regenerative culture-building.
Glamping - We have furnished bell tents with comfortable beds and linens provided. Enjoy the peaceful gardens, the labyrinth and Damanhur meditation spiral, walk across the street to Donegal Lake, enjoy the wildlife, paddle board and more. A scenic drive to all of the points of interest in The Laurel Highlands. Soon you will be able to book your stay here on the site.
Holistic Retreats & Workshops – Make any weekend a retreat! Bring a group or just come on your own for a nature immersion. We will help you curate your retreat with options for yoga, paddle boarding, paddle board yoga, white water rafting, helping in the gardens, harvesting, making medicines, preserving the harvest, foraging and more. We also have scheduled offerings in wellness, sustainability, permaculture, and sacred living to nourish body, mind, and spirit. Check the Retreats here.
A Composting Toilet & Rainwater Catchment - Rainwater/spring fed wash house, a sustainable and sacred place to tend to our basic needs with care and respect for the land.
Off-Grid Solar Power - A renewable energy system to power our workshops, gatherings, and daily life.
Permaculture Gardens & Food Forest – We have already begun to add more no till community gardens for beauty, medicine, canning and preserving workshops and for a future of food sovereignty and abundance.
How YOU Can Get Involved
Please share your Time, Talent and Treasure
Elizabeth Lynch and Tami Gingrow have been consistently working on Pre Planning to EnVision a regenerative Community for 20 families, give or take. This is a tremendous project. We need more people with SHARED VISIONS to join our efforts.
The NuAeon Retreat Camp on Donegal Lake will serve as a wonderful launch pad where we can gather, co-create, launch some of our shared income business concepts, raise awareness and grow our member base. This last one is the most essential ingredient.
We need to raise $15,000 to build out this essential off-grid infrastructure. Your contribution directly supports the tools, furnished glamping tents, materials, portable solar system and labor costs we need to anchor this dream into reality.
But even more than money—we need people. We need YOU. The most essential part of any community is the like hearted souls who join to create something larger than ourselves. It is up to us, YOU and I to create the world we wish to live in and to leave a thriving Earth for future generations.
We are also accepting donations of tools, Pallets (heat treated only, stamped with HT), building materials such as good windows and doors, a lawn tractor, earth moving equipment, clean fill (primarily clay and straw for cob construction), plants (fruit and nut trees, native medicinal perennial plants to grow our food forest)
How You Can Help:
Donate - Every dollar goes toward building regenerative infrastructure and creating a home for conscious connection and growth.
Volunteer – We need all hands on deck to help us build, plant, create, and care for this sacred space.
Spread the Word – Share our mission with like-hearted friends and networks.
Join Our Events – Attend a workday, workshop, or community gathering and be part of the movement from the ground up.
2025 FREE Community Days - Twice Monthly
2nd Saturdays, 2-4 pm with Elizabeth Lynch
Connect with the community. Come hang out and just have fun. Let’s share a potluck meal together, get to know each other, and talk about our hopes and dreams.
These are free events. Register here, and we will share the location with you.
Dates:
June 14th, July 12th, August 9th, September 13th, October 11th
4th Fridays, 4 pm to ? with Tami Gingrow
Enjoy a work party at the retreat camp where you will actively learn, and help with whatever the project is that day while engaging and growing deep meaningful connections with others. Activities will range from planting, to preserving the harvest, foraging, making plant medicines or wine and more.
Share in a whole foods plant based pot luck dinner and optional fire afterwards. You are welcome to bring an instrument if you have one, or share poetry or whatever you’d like to share with the group.
These are free events. Register here, and we will share the location with you.
Dates:
June 27th, July 25th, August 29th, September 26th, and October 24th
Please save the dates and attend as many as you can! Please invite like-hearted friends and family to join us.
This basecamp is just the beginning. It's the seed of our long-term goal: building NuAeon @ Venus Rising, a 120-acre regenerative, multi-generational community where sustainability is sacred, art is livelihood, and education empowers generations to flourish.
Let’s co-create a sanctuary for humanity. A place to heal. A place to grow. A place to thrive.Ready to get involved?
With gratitude and vision,
The NuAeon @ Venus Rising Team
Together, we’re building the future - one stone, one seed, one soul at a time.
ReImagine Fayette County is an initiative of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania
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