Love Grows Festival

Community • Music • Nature • Learning

This two-day event celebrates & cultivates love for diverse people and for the planet we all depend on.

It’s about love in the radical sense, the way Martin Luther King, Jr. taught it.

It’s about love as a verb, not just a feeling, the way bell hooks wrote about it.

It’s about love of living things, the way E. O. Wilson defined it.

It’s about love as the antidote to hate, the way our nation needs it.

Two Themes, One Weekend

Love for People & Love for Planet

This uplifting weekend features talks, workshops, and fun in these two themes.

Two Days • One Festival

Festival Agenda

  • 10:00 AM–7:00 PM
    Registration / Check-In
  • 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Creativity Cove
  • 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Love Town Post Office
  • 10:00 AM–8:00 PM
    Kids Coop
  • 10:00 AM–8:00 PM
    Love Grows Grove: Sensory Trail
  • 11:00–11:45 AM
    Tenderfoot Tour & Guided Hike
  • 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
    Athens County Public Library Bookmobile
    No festival ticket required.
    Parked 1 mile down the road at the New Marshfield Family Dollar.
    Free and open to the public.
  • 1:00–2:00 PM
    Sustainable Future Tarot Readings
  • 1:30–2:30 PM
    Nature-Informed Wellbeing
  • 3:00–4:00 PM
    Sustainable Textiles Talk
  • 3:00–4:00 PM
    DIY Fantasy Watershed (Rural Action)
  • 4:30–5:30 PM
    Revolutionary Self-Care
  • 6:00–7:00 PM
    Tuning Our Hearts: Music as a Model for Radical Love
  • 7:15–8:15 PM
    Soul Entanglement (Stage Musicians)
  • 8:30–9:30 PM
    Ready Aim Flowers (Stage Musicians)
  • 9:30–10:30 PM
    Super Supportive Karaoke
  • 8:00 AM–2:00 PM
    Registration / Check-In
  • 8:00–9:00 AM
    Yoga
  • 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Kids Coop
  • 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Love Grows Grove: Sensory Trail
  • 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Creativity Cove
  • 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
    Love Town Post Office
  • 9:15–10:00 AM
    Reflective Journaling Class
  • 10:00–11:00 AM
    Tenderfoot Tour & Guided Hike
  • 10:00–11:00 AM
    Climate Resilience Workshop
  • 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
    Cooking with Love Demo
  • 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
    Crafty Art Bus
  • 12:30–1:45 PM
    Cacao Ceremony: Love as a Practice
  • 2:00–5:00 PM
    De-Escalation Workshop

Pass & Price

Choose Your Pass

$10
Day Pass
Can only make one day? Pick Saturday or Sunday.
Best Value
$18
that’s $9/day
Weekend Pass
Full access, both days — save vs. two Day Passes.
$43
+$25 over Weekend
Camping Pass
Weekend Pass + a 10×10 primitive tent/hammock site.
Popular add-on
Kids 12 & under — please register for headcountFree
Neighborhood Pass — New Marshfield & Five Points Rd residentsFree

Prices above go to Tenderfoot Learning Lab. Eventbrite adds a small fee at checkout.

With Gratitude

2026 Sponsors

Harvester

Snowville Creamery
The Herbal Sage
The Nook

Seed Planter

Minuteman Press