TIMBERLAKE EARTH SANCTUARY
Eco-Friendly Forest Wedding and Event Venue in The North Carolina Piedmont
Healing the Human-Earth Divine Relationship
“Relationships are the primary context of existence.”
Thomas Berry
Timberlake Earth Sanctuary is a 165-acre forest wedding, retreat, and event venue in North Carolina’s Piedmont region, located in Whitsett near Greensboro and Burlington. Surrounded by mature forest, trails, ponds, gardens, and peaceful outdoor gathering spaces, Timberlake offers a nature-based setting for weddings, retreats, workshops, ceremonies, and meaningful private events.
Whether you are planning a forest wedding weekend, a small outdoor ceremony, a group retreat, or a nature-inspired gathering, Timberlake provides a peaceful place to slow down, connect, and celebrate in the beauty of the natural world.
Weddings, Retreats, Space Rentals, and Land Stewardship
Rustic, elegant, warm, and friendly, Timberlake Earth Sanctuary is a beautiful place to celebrate your Sacred Union. Surrounded by mature forest, peaceful trails, gardens, ponds, and outdoor ceremony spaces, this is a place for “home grown”, forest weddings where your dreams can come to life.
You and your family will have two full days here to settle in, celebrate, and experience the beauty and tranquility of nature. Here, the Earth embraces your love.
Do you own a business or organization? Are you an instructor, facilitator, photographer, or creative professional? Timberlake Earth Sanctuary offers a beautiful natural setting for work parties, workshops, programs, photography sessions, and milestone moments.
With peaceful trails, gardens, ponds, and outdoor gathering spaces, Timberlake is a place where people can slow down, connect, and bring meaningful experiences to life.
For 20 years, extraordinary people have gathered at Timberlake Earth Sanctuary for nature connection, mindful living, contemplative arts, indigenous wisdom traditions, Thomas Berry teachings, and other paths of personal transformation.
Surrounded by 165 acres of forest, trails, ponds, and peaceful outdoor spaces, Timberlake offers a warm and welcoming setting for retreats, workshops, ceremonies, and meaningful gatherings.
We love volunteers! Join us in our effort of land stewardship by helping with grounds and trail maintenance, weeding in the garden, caring for outdoor spaces, or sharing your own areas of expertise.
Volunteering as an individual, club, organization, or community group is a meaningful way to give back to the Earth and help sustain Timberlake as the peaceful refuge that it is.
A 165-Acre Nature Sanctuary near Greensboro and Burlington
Located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, Timberlake Earth Sanctuary is convenient to Greensboro, Burlington, Guilford County, Alamance County, and the greater Piedmont Triad. The land includes forest, ponds, trails, gardens, and peaceful gathering spaces protected by a conservation-minded mission.