Why The Magic Exists: Turning A Moment Into A Movement

As the holiday week wraps up, we are asking you to support our non-profit partner, Creative Neighborhoods, on GivingTuesday.

We all know the feeling of walking onto the Farm. It’s the immersion of the architecture rising from the treelines, the intricate designs that hold you in the landscape, and the sense of discovery around every corner.

That experience is the direct result of Creative Neighborhoods.

It is this non-profit work that prevents Pickathon from becoming just another daytime festival in a big, open, dusty field. It allows us to be regenerative, not extractive.

The Problem: Producing a festival is expensive. Without community support, the “mission” aspect of the festival—the experimental architecture, the education, the zero-waste systems—is always vulnerable. When budgets are tight, these are often the first things at risk of being cut.

The Solution: Creative Neighborhoods allows us to turn the temporary moment of Pickathon into a year-round movement. We create a Regenerative Ecosystem that delivers maximum impact across three critical pillars:

• Circular Design Innovation: We act as a world-class lab for sustainable architecture. Our thesis is simple: What is built for a day is designed for a decade.
• Workforce Empowerment: We provide high-value, hands-on training to the next generation of builders, using the festival build as a classroom.
• Permanent Legacy Assets: We ensure the materials used at the festival don’t just disappear. We capture and reuse that infrastructure to build lasting assets that serve our local community year-round.

The Goal: A circular model where culture funds the structure. This gives us the platform to innovate and scale, ensuring Pickathon is reimagined, improved, and magical every single year.

Help us reach our $25,000 Giving Tuesday Goal!