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Ekone Ranch

Simply, radically, transformatively caring for people and place.

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  • “My daughter ALWAYS returns from camp more confident in herself and more grounded in who she is and where she fits into the world.”

  • “I went looking for a place to lay my bones in nature. I found a community and mission bigger than I could have imagined. And children will ride horses by my grave!”

  • “There is love coming up from the earth at Ekone, it is so sweet.”

  • “The land, the food, the rad cowgirls, the animals…Ekone is timeless with modern sensibilities.”

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Camp

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Cemetery

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Land Trust

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Ekone is many things…

Ekone is Sacred Earth Foundation, a 1300-acre land trust, stewarding and sharing the land in community with thousands of children and adults every year.

Summer Camps

Summer camps that give children a transformative sense of belonging.

Burial Services

Burial services that offer a simple, natural return to the earth.

Horse Connection

Horse connection for all ages in respectful partnership.

MENTORING YOUTH

Mentoring youth into empowered leaders ready to meet the challenges of their time.

Forestry

Forestry for climate resilience and restoring healthy fire to the ecosystem.

School Field Trips

School field trips building class cohesion and wild learning.

ACCESS TO THE LAND

Restoring access to the land and fostering right relationship with Native communities.

Ekone Magic looks a thousand different ways. here’s one:

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Support

This special place and its good work relies on many hands and much generosity!

Ekone is fortunate to generate 50% of the operating budget through earned income.

The other half depends on philanthropic donations and grants. 

Your support helps keep this little bit of “rightness” alive in the world and make it accessible to a wide diversity of children and adults.

Sacred Earth Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, tax ID 26-2272458

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Finding Ekone Ranch

We are located east of Goldendale, in south-central Washington State just north of the Columbia River Gorge, in the homelands of the Kah-Milt-Pah, now one of the confederated bands and tribes of the Yakima Nation.

Google maps sometimes sends you down a goat trail - so please see step by step directions here.

Step by step directions
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Ekone’s Food is Famous!

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