Herman Aihara, recently deceased, will be remembered for his contribution to humanity and the macrobiotic movement. Carl Ferre is the director and a principle speaker, along with others. Barb Jurecki, famous macrobiotic cooking instructor from Cleveland, Ohio, will also be cooking in the kitchen. The GOMF camp is held outdoors, with no buildings. Food is cooked on wood burning stoves.
Swimming is either in a mountain stream or a giant resevoire lake.
Bears and coyotes and deer are usually to be seen in their own habitat. The East West Center of Cleveland is a macrobiotic education organization. Food can nourish or destroy us. It is our biological foundation and no one can do without it. To understand food's effect on our bodies, emotion, social life, mind and spirit, we need to understand the natural order and the way of life, as well as the unifying principle behind all phenomena, what the Chinese called yin and yang, what Judaic-Christian scriptures call The Law or the Holy Spirit, what science calls positive negative, what Native Americans call Great Spirit.