Narrow Ridge

An inspiration for sustainable living in the mountains of East Tennessee, the Narrow Ridge Center, programs, meeting facilities and retreat activities are its livelihood, set amidst its continuing interests in community, sustainability and spirituality.

Narrow Ridge brings diverse backgrounds to strengthen our approach and concern for the ecological health of our bioregion -  the Upper Tennessee Valley and Southern Appalachian Mountains. It is an educational/demonstration retreat center offering classes in sustainable living, earth literacy, eco-spirituality and group and individual retreats in rural East Tennessee

A resource center and library of current Earth Literacy materials are open to all who come. Visitors and lodgers are encouraged to roam the countryside. Inspiration Point is one especially interesting place to be on a clear night. A 100-acre forest includes dense woods, a spring with brook and some curious rock outcroppings that people cannot resist climbing.

Narrow Ridge's simple solution to life's mystery  is to live in balance and harmony with our environment, to become real inhabitants of the land and to voluntarily choose simplicity whenever possible.

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Wish List

You can help Narrow Ridge by contributing to an identified need, or donating a needed item.

Some of our immediate needs include:

• Scholarship support for Earth literacy programs such as Vision Quest and funding for staff training.
• 9' X 12' plastic tarps (3)
• Large plastic storage bins
• Camping/lawn chairs
• Large on-demand hot water heater
• Fire proof safe
• Microphones, stands and cables
• Telescope
• Multimedia video projector
• Golf cart or mini vehicle for disabled transportation
• Surveyor's measuring wheel
• Small, Mantis tiller
• Insulated stove pipe
• Wall insulation
• Roofing paint
• Roof caulking
• Dozer work
• Sofa

To donate or to inquire,

call

(865) 497-2753

or

email us: Community@narrowridge.org

- Thomas Berry, from The Great Work