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Apple Orchard Stroll

AIR

Pollinator Support & Pranic Breathwork

Seed dispersal walks (milkweed, wildflowers)

  • Breathwork practices to honor lungs and air

  • Urban heat island and native plant education

  • Local partnerships for community impact

WATER

From Flood to Flow: Watershed Restoration

"Flood to Flow" workshops for youth and families

  • Rain garden design, stormwater management

  • Collaborative mapping of Austell flood zones

  • GIS mapping and watershed education

Four Seasons. Four Elements.
Infinite Connection

Each element-focused retreat is an immersive, community-led experience.

Learn more about what each season offers:

EARTH

Clay, Roots & Reverence

Community tree planting (flood-mitigating native species)

  • Hands-on rituals with clay and earth altars

  • Soil stability education & reforestation goals

  • Tree Species for Flood Zones: Bald Cypress, River Birch, Red Maple, Swamp Chestnut Oak, Sweetbay Magnolia, American Sweetgum, Overcup Oak, Weeping Willow

FIRE

Reflection, Storytelling & Climate Resilience

Guided firepit circles on ecological grief

  • Guided firepit circles on ecological grief, land memory, and collective burnout

  • Community storytelling & climate justice workshops

  • Trauma-informed space for emotional processing

Community-Led, Collaboration-Fueled

We welcome allies, educators, and environmental justice advocates.

Volunteer

Join our next reforestation or rain garden build

Sponsor a Retreat

Help cover the cost for marginalized participants

Host Location

Partner with us to host a satellite retreat

A Sacred Journey Into
Environmental Healing

True Alchemy Gardens invites you to reimagine environmentalism—not as a policy-driven initiative, but as a deeply rooted relationship with land, lineage, and one another.

Through the Four-Element Renewal Retreats, we bridge ancestral wisdom and modern climate resilience to empower communities of color, mothers and women, veterans, LGBTQ+ folks, and historically marginalized neighbors with tools for ecological justice and self-restoration.

“When we restore the land, we restore ourselves.”
 — True Alchemy Gardens

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The Four-Element
Renewal Retreats

Healing the Earth. Healing Ourselves.

Healing the Earth. An immersive series restoring balance through nature-based rituals, environmental stewardship and education as well as ancestral wisdom.

Join the Next Retreat
Learn About the Elements

Summer Retreat – WATER

 July 1–3, 2027 | Winston, GA

  • Poolside Emotional Resilience Workshops

  • Ancestral Storytelling

  • Environmental Strategy Planning

Register now

 Fall Retreat – FIRE

September 19-21 , 2027 | Winston, GA

  • Evening Fire Circle

  • Ancestral Storytelling

  • Emotional Resilience Workshops

Register now

 Winter Retreat – FIRE

Nov  29-30, 2027 | Winston, GA

  • Evening Fire Circle

  • Environmental Stewardship

  • Strategic Planning

Register now

Mark Your Calendar

Join us for transformative seasonal retreats that heal both land and spirit. Each retreat is carefully timed with natural cycles for maximum impact.

Community-Fueled + Collaboration

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Pollinator Biodiversity

30+ new native plant installations

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Flood Mitigation

3 rain gardens built in 2024

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Community Healing

100+ retreat participants in 1 year

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Youth Data Projects

40 youth trained in mapping and water management

See the Elements in Action

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