Sacred Harvest Festival 2025
Sacred Harvest Festival “ Roots and Renewal “
Monday August 4th – Sunday August 10th, 2025
Sacred Harvest Festival is a week long outdoor festival hosted in beautiful woodland surroundings on a large acreage, private event site. Festivants can choose the length of their stay. Come for a week, a weekend or a day, camp in a tent, a pop-up, or an RV.
This year we are returning to Harmony Park, the beloved site of our inaugural festival. It fills us with excitement and warms our hearts. This beautiful location, with its lush greenery and vibrant atmosphere, has always been the perfect backdrop for celebration and community. As we prepare to revisit this cherished venue, memories of past festivities dance in our minds, from the lively drumming echoing through the trees to the laughter and joy shared among friends and families. The anticipation of new experiences and the rekindling of old traditions make this return particularly special. Harmony Park is more than just a location; it’s a symbol of community and joy that continues to inspire and bring people together.
Become members and attend our online meetings. This event is family friendly and offers workshops, drumming, community feast, community rituals and more.
Our National Guests this year:
Tony Mierzwicki is a diligent student dedicated to exploring ancient religions and ceremonial magick. His fascination began early, leading him to present workshops and rituals since 2001 across the United States and Australia. As the author of “Graeco-Egyptian Magick: Everyday Empowerment” and “Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today,” Tony contributes to various anthologies, including the upcoming “Theurgy: Seven Approaches to Divine Connection.” He has been featured in print, online, and broadcast media, including the Patheos blog and “The Zeus & Hera Show” podcast. For the past five years, Tony has been an active participant in the Living Theurgy panel, fostering meaningful dialogues in the spiritual community. He has three degrees from the University of Sydney.
David Salisbury is a Baltimore/DC based witch and polytheist with 25 years of experience and an initiate of the Anderson Feri tradition of witchcraft as well as the Thelemic organization O.T.O. and has been consecrated as a Bishop into the Gnostic Tradition of Jules Doinel/Tau Valentin II. As an author of multiple books on the magical arts, David teaches both privately and at festivals and conferences around the world. His work primarily focuses on magic as a subversive act meant to unshackle our power and presence from the oppressive forces of society, and to restore authenticity and wholeness to the self. His work educating the public on paganism has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and more.
Kelden (he/him) is a witch, folklorist, and mental health practitioner. He is the author of The Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft, The Witches’ Sabbath: An Exploration of History, Folklore, and Modern Practice, and All Them Witches: Folktales & Rhymes. When not researching and writing, Kelden enjoys life in his tiny house in the woods, reading, hiking, growing poisonous herbs, and playing ukulele. You can find more about Kelden at keldenmercury.wordpress.com
Dan Gorbunow serves the communities of wellness and spirituality with over 30 years of experience in holistic health, storytelling, depth psychology and ceremony. Dan’s approach to ceremony and spirituality is deeply rooted in his background of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Taoist philosophy. All faiths, genders, nations, and ages are welcome to participate in Dan’s offerings.
Purification Lodge: Join in the process to build and experience the purification lodge at the fire, please be sober, clean, safe, and respectful at the lodge.
Healing Divine Masculine Classes: All genders are welcome to dive in with the focus on “Healing the Divine Masculine Archetypes”, Dan will offer an interesting, fun, and transformative series on the male archetypes of Warrior and King, which will also connect powerfully to the wisdom of Sacred Feminine and Goddess energy.
Dan Engebretson has been an active member of the Twin Cities hand drumming scene for the past 25 years and his passion is studying and playing traditional West African djembe and dunun rhythms. For over 20 years he has studied with master drummers such as Mamady Keita, Famoudou Konate’, Bolokada Condé, Sekou Conde, Abdoul Doumbia and many other drummers from Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast and Senegal. He is a member of Mamady Keita’s Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy which is a detailed and comprehensive curriculum designed to train teachers on the knowledge of Malinke rhythms. He learned traditional “village-style” drumming from the teachings of Malian drum master Sega Sidibe’. Additionally, Dan has also studied with many U.S. drummers.
He currently teaches two different level djembe classes at the Women’s Drum Center in St. Paul and has a performance group, Djembe Diyamu, that performs around the Twin Cities.
Wade has been on the pagan path since 1992 and a Tyrsman in the Northern Tradition since 1998. He lives at Deeply Rooted Pagan Sanctuary near Athens WI and is an avid book and amber collector. He also has been working in the Department of Corrections as a chapel volunteer at 12 institutions for the last 21 years.
Per Andreassen plays original folk music rooted in his experiences as a queer midwestern animist. His work is lyric-driven and emotionally immersive, bolstered by a theatrical presentation that leaves audiences alternatively laughing and moved to tears.
Per has performed as The Tom O’Bedlam for nearly a decade, playing the best backyards and street corners middle America has to offer from the Orgon Mountains to the headwaters of the Mississippi.
Refund policy:
1. Refunds are available only until 3 weeks prior to the festival start date, and Equal the cost previously paid by the registrant -15% to cover HT administration expenses.
2. Any requests after the 3 week date can be considered by HT, but are not guaranteed.