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    Farm Membership is the most basic level of participation and support for the work of Four Quarters. Our first year of Memberships was 1995, which saw about 50 Members by its close. At this writing, 2007 Membership has risen to almost 440 people.

    Farm Membership does have its benefits; access to the camp for Members and their guests, subsidized Members Rates for Church sponsored events and special privileges within the Members Only Camp. And Membership Renewals are our primary source of operating funds during the lean winter months, allowing our work of organizing to continue year-round.

    But most of our Members tell us that they support Four Quarters with their Membership for the simplest of reasons. To preserve the Standing Stones, to ensure that the Circle is completed, and held safe for the generations to come, to take their part in creating this Sanctuary of Earth Religion, and participate in this Work of Years... Stone by Stone. And to see to it that Four Quarters remains an important part of their lives. In the end, Four Quarters Membership is about People and the choices they make.

Memberships Classes and Fees

Sustaining Membership
First Year $60 Renewal $50

    The most basic level of Membership in Four Quarters Farm, for people 21 years or older, providing all Member Benefits.

Parents’ Subsidized Membership
First Year $45 Renewal $35

    For parents with a child under 16 years of age or a Youth Member of Four Quarters. Because we feel family is the most important part of making Four Quarters a lasting community, we subsidize Parental Memberships.

Youths’ Subsidized Membership
First Year $30 Renewal $30

    For young people from 16 through 20 years of age, whose parent(s) are members of Four Quarters. Our outreach to those who will take over the mantle of leadership when we are no longer able.

Elders-Veterans Membership
First Year $45 Renewal $35

    For our community’s seniors 65 years and older, or Veterans of Military Service or currently employed public safety employees; fire fighters, police, paramedics and surviving spouses of any of the preceding. We recognize the elders’ wisdom in building community just as we honor those who have put themselves in harm’s way, to ensure that the freedoms we enjoy will be preserved for generations to come.

Staff Subsidized Membership
First Year $35 Renewal $35

    For those who make a season’s commitment to working two Church Fund-raisers or have suggested a commitment to another aspect of operations that they see needs to be done. Staff Memberships are subsidized and weekend grounds fees are waived. Staff does not pay for events in which they are serving as Staff and are eligible for Staff pricing of Meal Plans at those events. If you think you may be called to this kind of work, call us and let us know. It may be one of the most rewarding phone calls you will ever make.

Promoting Membership
First Year $350 Renewal $350

    A level of membership for those who are able to make a more substantial financial commitment to the Farm. All Four Quarters sponsored grounds and festival registration fees are waived for Promoting Members. Promoting Members are responsible for their consumable fees, including parking, firewood, meal plan and moon service meals.

Lifetime Sustaining Membership $400

    Offers all the benefits of a Sustaining Membership for life. Your Lifetime Sustaining Membership fee will be carried over to future enrollment as a Lifetime Promoting Member.

Enrolling as a Member

    Membership is easy. We need up-to-date contact information, your legal name and address, telephone number and email address. Let us know what category of Membership you are enrolling in. If a Parental Membership, let us know the names and ages of your children, as well as the contact information of any co-parent, whether she or he will be enrolling as a Member or accompanying you to Four Quarters. And your check or Money Order made payable to Four Quarters.

    Membership Privileges run with the calendar year, and all Memberships roll over on January 1. The Membership Renewal Period runs until April 1 of each year and Membership fees must be paid by April 1 to qualify for the renewal rate. Renewals made after that date are considered to be new Memberships. New Memberships started and paid after Stones Rising may be credited to the following year at the request of the Member.

    Please Note: Membership Fees do not include meals or consumables of any kind. Fire Permits and Parking Passes must be purchased for your event or weekend stay. If you wish to join us at the Starvin’ Artist Café during fee paid events, you must sign up for the meal plan.
    For Moon Services, no meal plan is offered but donations are essential to help us offset the cost of the food served and are greatly appreciated.

Benefits of Membership

    The Camp is always open by grounds fees for Members and their guests for a getaway. The only exceptions are those weekends that are a Church fee paid fund raising event. At those times registration for the event is required.

    Members receive a subsidy when registering for Church fee paid fund raising events. At the earliest pre-registered rate it usually works out to 25 percent less than the earliest non-member rate. The difference between a Member’s pre-registered rate and a non-member at the gate can be as much as 100 percent.

    Members and their guests have access to the Big Bottom, the Members-only camping area. Even when the public camp is in use by an outside group, the Big Bottom is open to Members and their guests. Guests must camp with the Member when in the Members Camp.

    Members may arrange to reserve sections of the Camp for their own private events, such as handfastings, private ceremonials and mini-events. As Members they have access to the camp’s equipment and facilities at little to no charge.

    Members receive The Wheel of the Year wall calendar published every January, 52 pages of celestial events, Wiccan Holy Days and traditional observances from the world’s Earth Religions. The complete schedule of events and Moon Service Weekends at Four Quarters and much more.

    Members receive the Members Muse, a lively printed newsletter that is more of a magazine, averaging 16 pages an issue. The Muse includes news about the camp and Membership that simply does not appear anywhere else. Members also receive all event flyer mailings during the season.

    Access to the Members Section of the Four Quarters Forum as well as Members’ email discussion groups hosted through our web site.

    And last but not least, at the beginning of each year we issue that year’s Membership Cards with the Membership Renewal issue of the Members Muse. They have become quite the tradition and we know folks who carry theirs going back to 1995. Color printed and laminated.

    It should be understood that Membership in Four Quarters Farm is a Membership in the Church Camp. It does not make one a Member of the Church, although Farm Membership is required of Church Members.

Responsibilities of Membership

    Because we are a Church and an InterFaith Sanctuary, there are some aspects of how the camp operates that make us a little bit different from the ordinary. We really try not to rely upon rules so much as the evolving culture that most folks feel as soon as they walk on the Land. Part of our purpose is to create an environment that will foster experimentation and openness to the religious traditions of others, traditions that may at first seem foreign or strange. We are best able to do that by creating an atmosphere of safety and respect for each other and for the Land. The Land is our Cathedral and for us the Stewardship of the Land is a fundamental responsibility.

    Membership requires that you honor the Land and your fellow Members. This honor is shown by the way you treat the Land and each other. By showing your understanding that freedom is not license, and by following the few policies that we have evolved over the years to ensure that we are all well cared for.