The Abactors’ Hideout: A Letterpress Community Studio Smoke Farmers have recently reclaimed and remodeled the old tractor shed adjacent to the Milking Parlor, using materials salvaged from other collapsing outbuildings. Poet-Carpenter Arne Pihl oversaw the construction crew and personally pounded over 1,000 bent nails. No one really knows how the skylight got up there. The […]

Hosted by Arne Pihl and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke Till is literary organization based out of Seattle that hosts an annual writing residency at Smoke Farm. Founded by Arne Pihl and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke in 2013, Till fosters literary exchange and builds community among writers through scalable, affordable, and local writing programs. Open to writers of all genre […]

In 2006, Rubicon began its series of wonderful, expansive and exciting art festivals at the Smoke Farm venue. The festivals uniquely support both artists and the Rubicon community. They provide artists a chance to work with a remarkable environment, creating a hearth for creative ideas, a forum for community feedback and support, and a beautiful […]

Hosted by Tamara Murphy www.burningbeast.com Rubicon Foundation’s major fundraiser is also Washington’s greatest, largest outdoor feast. Burning Beast is the brainchild of renowned Seattle chef Tamara Murphy, who was inspired by the idea of a culinary Burning Man, or a free-form outdoor festival. It brings many of Seattle’s best chefs and cooks to Smoke Farm, […]

Hosted by Matthew Cary, Stuart Smithers Since 2002, Rubicon Foundation has been actively working with the Cascade Land Conservancy to rehabilate the land of Smoke Farm. Essentially “Un-farming”, we are attempting to restore the wetland ecology that existed prior to the fields created from cattle herding.

Hosted by Eric Dillin, Matthew Philbrook, Anne Blackburn, Adam Nishimura, Stuart Smithers The garden at Smoke Farm serves a variety of functions. Not only does it provide healty herbs, fruits, and vegetables to the summer users of the farm, it also serves as a site for various activities: educating students about the life cycle of […]

Director(s): Gregory Kircher, Terrence McKitrick, Mathew Goad

Hosted by Stuart Smithers, Brendan Kiley The Rubicon Foundation’s annual Symposium is a weekend of inspiring and challenging presentations, explorations, exchanges, and discussions with an audience of 200 to 250 Northwest thinkers, artists, teachers, and organizers—the people who shape and build our communities. The presentations take place in an open-air barn on the edge of […]

Hosted by Stuart Smithers, David Shapiro, Carl Lehmann-Haupt Rubicon Foundation’s annual philosophy, yoga, and meditation retreat is led by professors Stuart Smithers and David Shapiro. The name “Camp Zero” comes as a double reference: as philosophers, we constantly return to the fact that we begin with nothing, discarding all our current “knowledge” in favor of […]

Hosted by Adam Nishimura, Sarah Smith, Kyle Nunes, Mia Palomo, May Ackerman, Micah Stanovsky Find out more and get contact info at http://www.sawhorserevolution.org/ The Sawhorse Revolution builds upon the sturdy foundation of two youth construction Fortnight Camps held at the Rubicon Foundation’s rural Smoke Farm, and a successful after school pilot program. Over the past […]