Your Experience
No agenda required.
The land meets you where you are. A single quiet night on the bluffs. A weekend that surprises you. A program that shifts something. A community that keeps pulling you back. The depth is always yours to choose.
A night
Arrive. Exhale. Let go.
Sometimes all you need is a dome on a bluff, coyotes in the dark, and the silence of a landscape ten thousand years older than your to-do list.
Book a StayA weekend
Go a little deeper.
Add a guided prairie walk at dawn. Sit in a wildlife blind at first light. Let the land show you what it knows.
Explore ExperiencesA program
Let it change something.
Three to five days in a structured program — nervous system reset, farm immersion, or regenerative retreat. You arrive one version of yourself. You leave another.
See ProgramsA community
Come back. Belong here.
Regular events, membership, a patch of land that carries your name. Some guests become stewards. Some stewards become the reason others find their way here.
Find Your PlaceEvery depth is the right depth.
What Awaits
Four ways to enter the land
Community
The local and the guest
sit at the same table.
New Harmony Life was never meant to be an island. The farmers, artisans, healers, and makers of Monona County are part of what you experience here — not as a backdrop, but as the community that keeps this land alive.
When you buy from a vendor at the Prairie Market, join our vendor events, or walk a trail maintained by a volunteer — you are not a tourist. You are part of how this land stays alive.
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The Community Table
Come join our free events — guests, neighbors, farmers, strangers. Monona County at one long table under Iowa stars.
Reserve a seat →Local vendors, healers & makers woven into every experience. Meet the community →
Russ & Carolyn Uhl
Built slowly.
On purpose.
We didn't set out to build a business. We set out to build a life that made sense on this specific land. After years of learning what 285 Loess Hills acres can teach — about soil, about seasons, about what people actually need — New Harmony Life became the form that life took.
Every program, every stay, every dinner is designed so guests leave knowing something they didn't when they arrived. That's what the Loess Hills will do — if you give them the time.
The foundersRestoration
The land is returning.
We're helping it.
Over 100 acres of Loess Hills prairie in active restoration — invasive species removal, native seed planting, controlled burns, and soil health monitoring. Every stay, every event, every season is part of a longer arc toward a landscape that can sustain another 100 years.
When you walk the bluffs here, you're walking land that is recovering. That's not a marketing claim — it's something you can see in the species returning to the ridgelines year by year.
A portion of every stay, every program, and every event goes directly back into the land — restoration work, native planting, habitat monitoring, and the long-term health of these 285 acres. When you're here, you're part of that arc.
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When the big bluestem goes dormant, when the first dickcissel arrives, when the creek runs cold enough for immersion — we write to let you know. Seasonal updates, new programs, and events on the land.
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