At a quiet retreat in Tennessee, a handful of people read on the porch or simply sit and talk. Beyond them, donkeys drift through a fenced field.
No one reaches for their phones.
Main image: Valerie Sloan needed to step away from a toxic workplace and an intensely digital environment far removed from nature. Today, she owns a retreat designed to help people disconnect from screens and reconnect with nature and their childhood curiosity.Illustration by The Epoch Times, Courtesy of Valerie Sloan, Courtesy of the Horseshoe Farm
