We love people, we love plants and we love how gardens gather us together in such hopeful, generous and generative ways! If you’d love to explore collaborating with us, email petra (at) fruitionseeds.com and let’s make the future more fruitful together! You’ll find us here on the farm, 7921 Hickory Bottom Road in Naples, New York.
Monday, October 20 | 10 to 5 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Work Party & Potluck: Becoming Good Soil Together
Bring your family and friends as we dig into meaningful work on the farm together! We’ll share a diversity of activities honoring the many ways we all can learn, laugh and be of service together including harvesting winter squash and sampling apples in our community orchard!
Rain or shine, arrive / depart anytime and come ready to be comfortable in changing weather. Bring a dairy-free potluck lunch offering as well as a bag to bring home abundance from the farm đź’›
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, October 25th | 10 – 2 pm | Harvest Fest on Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Join us harvesting, cleaning & gifting native pollinator seeds as we make pollinator wreaths, among the many delights of Harvest Fest! We’ll then head to the Ag Hall from 3:30 to 6:30 to share The Gift of Seed (bring a bag for all the seed packets you’ll bring home!) followed by a potluck. Register here (no charge).
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, October 25th | 3:30 to 6:30 pm | Ag Hall on Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Do you love Robin Wall Kimmerer’s words and hunger to weave this wisdom into your daily life? With plants as our teachers, join us for The Gift of Seed: an embodied practice of growing gift culture with seeds and community at the center. Expect to laugh, cry and come alive as we explore living in old and new ways! Bring a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for all generations to come. Join us for conversation and potluck to follow! Though not required, register here (there is no charge) and we’d love to see you, either way.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday, October 26th | 3:30 to 5 pm | Stillpoint, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Seeds & Embodied Gift Practices for More Fruitful Futures
Do you dream of a more resilient food and seed culture? Do you love Robin Wall Kimmerer’s words and hunger to weave this wisdom into your daily life? You are not alone! Gather with like-minds to cultivate these questions and possibilities both personally and collectively. With embodied practices and seeds as our teachers, come feel, reflect and embody gift economy with us. Everyone will return home with practices to engage in daily life as well as an abundance of seeds to grow more abundant futures for us all. Though not required, register here (there is no charge) and we’d love to see you, either way.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday Nov 15 | 10 to 4 | at Fruition Seeds
Wassail! Fruition’s Annual Orchard Celebration with Cider Sipping, Cider Syrup Making & Apple Tree Gifting
Join us sipping mulled cider & singing as we celebrate our thriving Community Orchard, as much yours as ours and here for future generations. Bring a gallon ​(or more!) of sweet cider​ (as you’re inspired & able) to add to our maple syrup evaporator: The fire will be crackling and we’ll make cider syrup to send everyone home with! Bring a mug for hot cider​, a pint jar for syrup to bring home. If you’d love to help put rodent guards on our trees and otherwise ready our orchard for winter, we love you and arrive at 10 and join us for a potluck lunch at noon! At 12:30 our farm tour begins​ and at 1 pm we’ll celebrate Wassail ​with song (practice here!), reflection & merry-making! At 2 we’ll dig our nursery apple​trees, sending them home with everyone ready to plant more trees for the world to come. ​If you’d love more insight on tree planting, we made you quite a feast of everything we’ve learned.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday Nov 16 | 1 to 4 pm | Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY
Join community & conversation at the Rochester interfaith summit: Hope, Resilience and Resistance in a Time of Climate Crisis. Petra will share “Practicing Gift Economy in Uncertain Times” and registration is free, register here đź’›
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday Nov 30 | 10 am | at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY
Save the date and stay tuned, Friends! I (Petra!) will lead the service and ohhhhh we’ll laugh, cry, (un)learn and practice the courage of receiving together, with seeds as our teachers.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
We Made You a Map!
There are so many marvelous ways to enjoy our hills, valleys, lakes & glens, so we’ve made you a printable map of our favorite places surrounding the Fruition Seeds farm: