Culinary Meliorism Garden Party

An evening of seasonal, honey-infused food, poetry, and presence. Gather around the garden table as each course is paired with a live poetry reading, inviting us to slow down, savor, and reconnect with beauty, nature, and one another.

A five course garden supper with poetry pairings with each course. Meliorism is believing in the goodness and kindness that exists in people. Poet Jon Meliferas will serve up a tasty, uplifting poem with each course. As beekeepers, Dawn and Michael of Inner Wolf Retreat Space feature local honey in each dinner course.

The location for the supper in the field will be in the shade by around 6pm and alongside the river. Bring friends and meet new ones at this community oriented event. The more we celebrate goodness and kindness in the world, we find more of the same in the world.

Proposed Plant-Based Menu (and please let me know of any dietary restrictions):

• Honey-Infused Citrus Mocktail

• Table Charcuterie with comb honey from our hives, nuts and cheese

• Roasted Squash, Quinoa, Cranberry, and Pecan Salad

• Main Course Sweet Potato and Lentil Stew

• Homemade Lavender Orange Honey Mama's Chocolate

Before the garden party supper, you can add on time with Beekeeper Michael Green, the Asheville Bee Guy, and learn about hands on beekeeping onsite. After the garden party supper, you have the opportunity to luxuriate in your relaxation with an add-on Sound Healing session in the pyramid barn on site with Dawn Sagonias.

Join us for a relaxing and uplifting culinary and sensory delight!

Options to add on to your immersive time at Inner Wolf:

• Purchase the Beekeeping Instructional that begins on-site--bee suits provided! At 4:30pm suit up and enjoy peeking into the hive with Beekeeper Michael Green onsite and learn about beekeeping before the Garden Supper at 6pm

• Relax completely with the Sound Healing session at 8pm with Dawn after the Supper. Will be held in the Pyramid Barn in the cozy and comfy sound room

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Don't Gong and Drive after all this sweetness--Savor longer and stay overnight in one of our cozy rooms!

Meliorism (pronounced MEE-lee-uh-riz-um) is the philosophical belief that the world is not automatically destined to get better, but that humanity can actively improve the quality of life through deliberate effort, reason, and positive action.

Key Concept Breakdown

• The Root: The word derives from the Latin word melior, meaning "better".

• The Middle Ground: It sits perfectly between two extremes: optimism (the belief that the world is perfectly good or will naturally improve on its own) and pessimism (the belief that the world is bad and cannot be fixed).

• Active Agency: Unlike optimism, meliorism doesn't view progress as guaranteed. Instead, it asserts that while suffering and imperfection exist, humanity has the agency to gradually improve the world