Events

In this special collaboration, Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, and founder of Plant Baby Plant, joins youth leader and Nurture Natives founder Esther Bonney for an intergenerational conversation about belonging, reciprocity, and native plant action. 

Together, they will explore questions such as:

How do we create opportunities for young people to have a voice and feel empowered, even when they are not homeowners or decision makers?What kinds of relationships and mentorships help people stay engaged in native plant work over decades?Why do stories, shared practices, and community invitations matter just as much as plant lists?

Robin and Esther will reflect on what invites people into this work, what keeps them here, and what elders and youth have to teach each other.

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

Join us for the first workshop of the year at Reciprocity Community Food Forest.  We will be giving a how to presentation on tapping a Large Silver Maple Tree at our Food Forest by tapping it together. For refreshments  we will have taste samples of  Sugar Maple Water that we plan to tap a week before our workshop. Along with the Sugar Maple Water samples we will also have White Pine Soda samples so if you would like to try, please bring your own Cup! While enjoying the refreshments we will talk about the benefits of drinking Maple water seasonally and respecting the tree by only taking what is needed & giving back by planting more trees with Reciprocity. Maple water contains more Manganese, Calcium, Sodium, and almost as much potassium as Coconut Water. For Gatorade fans, Maple water is an all natural sports drink! For maple syrup fans it would take 50 gallons of sugar maple water to get 1 gallon of maple syrup. So although we love maple syrup as a treat, this workshop is to show the value of an absolute necessity, clean mineral rich, free, Water that revitalizes our body with minerals we are lacking in a season when we need it the most. (Event is subject to being rescheduled t Sunday , February 22nd depending on weather.)

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!