Community Events

Welcome to Circle Pines Center

Community Events

The mission of Circle Pines is to promote peace, social justice, environmental stewardship, and cooperation. The center aims to demonstrate cooperative alternatives for economic and social issues to each cooperation as a way of life.

Upcoming Events

Circle Pines Center

Niceties

Lodging

Not just for campers and staff! We offer a variety of accommodations for your group! Nested within our 294 acres are rustic log cabins, a lodge, dorm-style cabins, and tent areas. Cluster your guest in a group of cabins with space for tenting or share a large lodge all together! Choose electricity, running water, bathrooms, or opt to rough it. Use our on-site laundry, fire rings, picnic tables, sauna, dining hall, meeting rooms, and more!

See Our Lodging

Food

Circle Pines Center is committed to supporting sustainable agriculture and the slow food movement. Kitchen staff members work hard to provide delicious and nutritious meals from scratch using primarily local and organic ingredients. We source camp food from over 15 local farm families in Southwest Michigan. Meat dishes are prepared using pasture fed and humanely raised animals.

See Our Vendors

Community

The Circle Pines Community fosters its core values of peace, social justice, environmental stewardship, and cooperation. We strengthen links to the movement towards natural food and organic gardening. We host activist organizations in our facilities. We create community during summer camp. Using over 15 local farms for camp food fosters community and supports local growers.

Get Involved

Peace

The greatest work can be accomplished when people are at peace with one another working toward a common goal. Understanding individual differences with a focus on grassroots activism and community brings a sense of unity and collaboration to CPC.

Social Justice

Cooperation cannot exist until all people have the same basic rights. Whether it’s summer camp or purchasing food, Circle Pines Center strives to implement and educate for social justice to create a more cooperative and equitable world.

Environmentalism

Recognizing that humans have the power to change the planet for the better or for the worst, we believe that it is our role to be stewards of the environment. Protecting the environment through conservation and sustainable practices flows through all we do.

Cooperation

From special events to camp to community meetings, a shared sense of purpose and cooperative thinking enhance the quality of life at Circle Pines Center. Through daily work projects, conversations, and relationships, CPC instills the practice of cooperation as a way of life.

Upcoming Events

Mar 2026

22 March 2026 March 22 - March 28

Garden Institute (All ages)

Want to get into gardening? Like working with others or alone on this kind of project? Want somewhere to work remotely in the office and help when you can? Curious about camp and Circle Pines for you or your kids? Want to have the camp vibes in Spring but have aged out or didn't have a chance to participate in Youth?

Well then this is for you!

Garden Institute is a weeklong work-retreat program for CPC youth AND adults from March 22-28th, 2026. Together with experienced agriculturalists you'll plan, learn, and get your hands and knees in the soil with your fellow campers. Together, we will design our optimal CPC garden, build structures, plant seeds and starts and more!

This is a "family camping" program meaning there are no age restrictions for attendees from our Circle Pines Community, NOT that you need to bring your family to attend. Please fill out a registration form for each family member attending.

Think you're ready to get into the weeds? Register today, and we'll see you at Circle Pines! Not sure if it's for you yet or need to know anything about the program at any point? Message info@circlepinescenter.net for answers.

Find out more

Apr 2026

10 April 2026 April 10 - April 12

Great Lakes Alliance of Cooperatives weekend

Great Lakes Alliance of Cooperatives – Spring Retreat 2026
April 10-12, 2026
Hello fellow co-opers;

Our Great Lakes Alliance of Cooperatives Spring Retreat will be April 10-12 at Circle Pines Center. Save the Date and make a plan to be there with others from your co-op!

The organizing committee is looking forward to sharing this weekend that brings together cooperators from many sectors of the co-op world including housing, food, worker, and other co-ops.

The Schedule for the Event is forthcoming, we will provide updates on website so please stay tuned

Registration will close 4/9 so we can give the kitchen adequate time to prepare for your arrival. Please complete your registration before then.

Find out more

May 2026

01 May 2026 May 1 - May 3

Root to Rise: Wisdom in the Pines

Root to Rise is a seasonal skill-sharing weekend retreat created and hosted by Soul Fire Forest - an intentional community and educational space in Montague, Michigan, focused on regenerative community building. If you’d like more information on Soul Fire Forest check out this link: Soul Fire Forest: Comprehensive Identity Document

This isn’t a festival.
It’s not a retreat where you get “fixed.”
It’s not hustle culture in earth tones.

It’s a weekend to try on something different.

Over three days we’ll gather to explore topics like:

• Practical homestead skills
• Appropriate technology + resilient systems
• Community building + conflict navigation
• Somatic practices to keep it all grounded
• Growing food, garden support systems
• Conversations about building parallel, life-giving systems

No gurus.
No perfection.
Just people learning together.

Find out more

08 May 2026 May 8 - May 10

Spring Mushroom Camp

This event is appropriate for all levels of mushroom enthusiasts from very new beginners to seasoned experts. It is a social celebration of all things fungal!

Circle Pines Center, 8650 Mullen Rd
Delton, MI 49046 United States

+ Google Map

Find out more

29 May 2026 May 29 - May 31

Spanish Language & Culture Weekend

Come join Spanish Immersion Weekend at Circle Pines Center this Spring.

Find out more

Community Events