Sky Meadow Retreat is located on a 150 year old Vermont Homestead at the end of the road in the town of  Stannard, in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The 120 acres of land includes open fields, forests with trails, ponds for swimming, and a hilltop with magnificent views of the Green Mountains. 

            The retreat center is in a newly renovated 100 year old barn that sleeps 16 people and includes a large open hardwood floor surrounded by windows, dining room, couch area, and woodstove.  Off this main room are three shared dorm rooms, each with four large beds, two full shared baths, and a fully equipped kitchen, including eating dishes and utensils.   On the lower floor, near the pond, garden, and sheep pen, are two more dorm rooms, with two beds each, and a shared full bath.  These lower rooms are only available to groups larger than 12 people.       

        We provide comfortable mattresses, blankets and pillows.  You  bring your own bed linens or sleeping bag, pillow case, and towel.  We cannot accommodate children or pets. We have no laundry facility and cannot receive mail or e-mail for you here.  Our neighbors are very sensitive to traffic on our road so we ask that you not arrive or use the road after 10:00 pm, or before 6:00 am, everyone sleep at Sky Meadow, and only drive in and out when necessary.  We do not allow alcohol, meat or fish, and have quiet hours indoors and out from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

             We request that each participant receive the welcome sheet we will send to you when you confirm your reservation. (also found on  information for participants  link)    The retreat barn will be open for your use after 4:00 the afternoon of your first day.   Please be sure a leader or organizer is here to greet people before any participants arrive.        

         The barn preparation team needs to have the barn to ourselves until the designated time for arrival of your retreat.  We ask that no one come into the main building for any reason before 4:00 on the day your retreat begins unless you have clearly negotiated another time with us before you arrive.  We ask all guests to observe quiet hours inside the retreat barn or outdoors after 10:00 with the exception of the dance pavillion building.

    We ask that you be cleaned up and out by 4:00 on your last day.   We also ask each participant to sign a waiver of liability form and participate in a half hour orientation talk upon arrival.  To keep our costs down, we ask each group to clean up and leave the buildings and rooms as you found them.  This usually takes one half to one hour.  Parking is limited to 14 cars in winter and we ask people to carpool as much as possible.          
               Sky  Meadow Retreat Fees and Deposit Information
     To confirm a booking with us you will need to send a non-refundable deposit of
                               $200/weekend plus $100 for each additional night to:  
                          (We take personal checks, or cash, but no credit cards.)      
Sky Meadow Retreat,    63 Winchester Rd.  Greensboro, Bend, VT. 05842.     

You will have two weeks to deposit after initial booking.   If we have not received your deposit after two weeks you will lose your dates.   We would also like to know your estimated times of arrival and departure, numbers attending, and meal requests at the time of booking, as well as contact information for the organizer or leader.  Our fees are per person for the entire length of your retreat.  We do not reduce fees for someone who is not here for your whole program.   Please pay by one check only, or cash, by the end of your retreat.    

                                 Fees   (minimum stay is two nights)

    $150 per person for weekend with food             $70  per person for weekend without food

  Room cost per person:  $70 / 2 nights,  $35 each additional night,   $30 / night 5 + nights  
                                                      (1 night = 24 hour barn use)
     minimum of eight people for Friday and Saturday nights, and six for other nights, or equivalent fee                             Day use fees, per person:     $20     (minimum total day use fee:   $200 - group)  

                           Meal costs, per person:   $80/ 2 days - $40 each additional day
    (includes tea and fruit available through the day.  We do not serve coffee.  You may bring your own)
                  additional meals:    $10 - light breakfast,    $14 - lunch,      $16 - dinner                   

            Meals are vegetarian and use local, organic, fresh, and whole ingredients whenever possible. Many of the vegetables come from our own garden and we often cook without dairy products.  Food is served buffet style and each meal begins with a short circle blessing.  We ask that each person wash their own utensils, and sign up for at least one kitchen clean up or other housekeeping  job.    

      The kitchen will serve meals at the time you designate.   We can be flexible with you up to a 15 minute delay, and ask that you also be flexible with us for possible delays on our end, although this is not common.   If your group is delayed more than 15 minutes the meal will go out on the buffet and be left for you.   You will have 45 minutes after the meal is put out to eat, after which time it will be taken back to the kitchen and put away. 

        You may have us do meals, and you may also use our kitchen to cook your own meals. The kitchen is fully equipped and user friendly. We do not allow alcohol, meat, or fish at Sky Meadow. People with restricted diets must bring their own food as we cannot cater to special needs.  

    We prefer that you tally your own fees and pay your balance due by the end of your retreat.   You can simply write down the numbers of people/night, and people/meal, add the figures above, total them, and give them to us with one check only, or cash. (made out to Sky Meadow Retreat)