Rediscover balance
Experience the joy of connecting to the natural world. Book our iconic straw bale lodge for your next group retreat, or come to one of our inspiring workshops or events.
Wintergreen Studios
Wintergreen Studios embodies joyful ways of living in balance with the natural world. Our programs and off-grid wilderness facilities inspire people to live harmoniously, to become more resilient, and to return to their homes, workplaces, and communities nurtured and rejuvenated—ready to make a difference.
Wintergreen Studios is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples. This place provided rich hunting and gathering grounds and was also part of a trade route. This means that, along with the Anishinaabe peoples, people from the Mohawk, Algonquin, Mississauga, Wendake-Nionwentsio, and Anishinabewaki nations have likely been here before us, too. Wintergreen carries on these traditions as a place for gathering, for peoples of all nations, Indigenous and settlers alike. We thank you for joining us — whether in person or virtually — as we collectively strive towards making the promise and challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our community. We recognize the interconnectedness of all our relationships — to the environment and to each other — and work to ensure wellness for generations to come.
Retreats
Contact us to plan your conference, wedding, family reunion, book club meeting, or a private stay in one of our wilderness cabins.
We’d love to host you!
Events
Wintergreen Studios offers arts and sustainable living workshops throughout the year, as well as dinner concerts and opportunities to enjoy our trails and labyrinth.
Facilities
Our beautiful main lodge building and individual cabins make Wintergreen Studios the ideal space for working retreats, seminars, short courses, and conferences.
Virtual Learning Centre
Wintergreen Studios provides engaging online courses that will help you pursue more creative, inspired, and sustainable ways of living. We offer:
Free and Affordable Courses
A Team of Knowledgeable Instructors
Synchronous & Asynchronous Learning Assignments
External Resources
Project Bee
We offer a sanctuary for honey bees in the 9th Meadow Apiary.
Native plantings in our gardens give local pollinators the sustenance to shine.
Come for a workshop and try some of the honey produced by our bees.
Become a pollinator by offering your financial support in our beekeeping endeavour!
The Press
Wintergreen Studios Press was established in 2010. Our titles—over a dozen of them—range from poetry collections to memoirs to cookbooks that showcase the bountiful meals we serve at Wintergreen. The Press publishes emerging and established authors and content ranges from inspiring stories about establishing schools and hospitals in Nepal to fanciful and whimsical reflections about life and living.
The latest publication about Wintergreen Studios:
The HOUSE the SPIRIT BUILDS
“The House the Spirit Builds offers gorgeous synchronicity: the magic of one special place (Wintergreen), the grace of two sublime photographers (Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy), and the conjuring genius of a supremely gifted poet (Lorna Crozier). Much bigger than it looks, this is a book to savour—over and over again.” (Lawrence Scanlan, author of A Year of Living Generously) - BUY NOW
Wintergreen is a place of solace and creativity, meadows and forests and lakes where we as humans, all our senses on high alert, are invited to erase the boundaries between us and other living things. With grace and compassion, Wintergreen provides the space, the stillness, the care that nudges our best selves, our most creative selves, into being. It is a magical studio where the inspired and the imaginative thrive.
— Lorna Crozier, Poet, Officer of the Order of Canada
