Four Quarters Moon Services

Sign Up and Listings Page

Maintained by Mark Hargreaves
Resident Norwegian Moon Service Signup Wrangler: Aase Wiborg

Welcome to our Moon Service sign-up!

Our Moon Services are organized and led by volunteers, as they have been for well over a decade.

This page lists the services upcoming in the next year. Feel free to check out the services, and ask questions through the comments section. Most especially, this is your opportunity to share with others. The dates with openings are marked 'VOLUNTEERS NEEDED'. If you have a desire to offer Ceremony or prepare supper on one of those dates, just click 'Read More' and add a comment expressing your interest, and  giving some breif details about what you would like to do.

That's all there is to it! I look forward to sharing supper and ceremony with you!

Q - Who can hold a 4QF church service?
Anyone can, really.  You don't need to be a church member, or a campground member, or a regular.  You really should attend a 4QF church service or event or two first before you step up, just to get an idea of what the community is about and how your spirituality fits in with the spirituality of the Land and the Tribe who gathers here. 

Q - Who can cook for a 4QF church service?
ANYONE can!  As long as you can boil pasta and nuke some pasta sauce from a jar, you possess the necessary culinary skills.  And if you're a brand newbie and feel the call to an act of service to the community your very first time on the Land, dinner is a great way of doing so.  We love and adore the people who feed us! 

Q - What should i cook, what do i need to bring, and how many people should i plan to feed?

Cook whatever you want.  Please do make sure to offer some VEGETARIAN options.  A great majority of the people on the land are omnivores, though, so if you enjoy meats, you're in great company.  Fancy or plain - we are grateful eaters.  It could be something as simple as a soup or stew (two pots if your recipe includes meat and/or dead animal products please - a vegetarian option and an omnivore one), or something as fancy as a 3 course meal that's thematically aligned with the moon service.  We eat pretty much everything.

Bring the ingredients you need, and the time and labor to cook and clean up after.  Dishware, pots & pans, even dish soap - and a camp kitchen to cook in during the warm months, or a farmhouse kitchen for cooking during the cold months - are provided.

As for the number of eaters - that will vary.  Hard to predict, sometimes.  I usually plan for 20ish when it's cold and 50ish when it's warm, but i've been wrong before, very very wrong...  Still, even when 75 people show up to a dinner with enough food for 25, we somehow seem to all get our fill and even get seconds.  Some thoughts on making your ingredients stretch:

If your dish includes a starch (like pasta, rice, or bread) make sure to bring more than enough of it. 
Several extra cans of non-perishable, low-cost, quick to heat, filling foods like beans are also a good idea. 
If you are serving meat, slice it, cube it, or otherwise cut it down into small sizes so that everyone can get the flavor and protein but no one fills up on just meat.
Pre-slice everything.

Blessings,
Mark 'Kit' Hargreaves and Aase Wiborg