Events

Sun Jan 11 | 2 to 4 pm | Gift of Seed at the Free Library in Stowe, VT

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Thurs Jan 8 | 10 to 2 | Seed Packing & Gifting at Ganondagan’s White Corn Project

Together, let’s tuck Fruition’s regionally adapted seeds into packets to gift ourselves as well as our families, friends, neighbors and strangers! Throughout our time we’ll be reading from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry and honoring the seeds and our indigenous elders as well as ancestors and all those yet to come. Lunch featuring White Corn is shared and to access free registration to this gathering, join Ganondagan’s email list and look for their invitation💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sun Jan 11 | 2 to 4 pm | Gift of Seed at Caruso’s Cafe in Naples, NY

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sun Jan 11 | 2 to 4 pm | Gift of Seed at Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Mon Jan 19 (weather dependent; check back 2 days prior to confirm) | 10 to 2 pm | Becoming Good Soil Together: Work Party Potluck!

From packing seeds to harvesting winter greens and preparing our high tunnels for next season, bring your family and friends as we dig into meaningful work on the farm together! Both cozy indoors and outdoors in tunnels we’ll share a diversity of activities honoring the many ways we all can learn, laugh and be of service together. 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 greens from the farm 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sat Jan 24 | 2 to 4 pm | Gift of Seed at CNTR in Middletown, CT

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sat Jan 31 | 2 to 4 pm | Gift of Seed in West Barnstable in Cape Cod, MA

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Wed Mar 4 | 2 to 9 pm | Day of Mindfulness & Healing as Buddhist Mobile Monastery visits Fruition

Drop in anytime!  Bring something yummy for the potluck!

Learn more here and join us anytime: 2:00 Chanting; 2:30 Guided Meditation; 3:00 Massage and Tea; 5:00 Community Potluck; 7:15 Dharma Talk; 8:15 Guided Meditation; 8:45 Chanting; 9:00 Closing Circle💛

Mobile Monastery Events are offered by donation to give people the opportunity to explore giving resources as a spiritual practice.

Sat Mar 21 | 9 am to 4:30 pm | Urban Agriculture Conference in Rochester, NY

Join us for the day and enjoy a mini version of Fruition’s Gift of Seed experience embedded in Rochester’s biggest seed swap!

Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for all generations to come💛

Registration coming soon

March 16 ~ 19 | details TBD | Gift of Seed and other diverse seed gifting delights around Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

March 28 / 29 | time TBD | Gift of Seed at Soil Factory in Ithaca, NY

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sat April 4 | 1 to 3 pm | Gift of Seed at Fruition

gifting seeds, growing gardens & cultivating cultures of care beyond consumption

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sat April 18 | 1 to 3 pm | Growing the Gift of Seed at Fruition

sowing seeds & growing gift economy together

Join us receiving the generosity of seeds and growing community as we compost scarcity mindsets and sow seeds to surround us all with abundance for generations to come! After sharing Fruition’s 1-hour Gift of Seed practice, we’ll dive into the hands-on experience of seed sowing. As you’re able and inspired, bring potting mix (preferably organic), containers and labels for yourself as well as to share. We’ll talk pros & cons of diverse potting mixes and containers as well as practice the key techniques to successfully start seeds indoors. Feel free to bring other seeds you’d love to sow as well as other seed starting tools you’d love to share in community 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sun April 19 | 1 to 3 pm | Growing the Gift of Seed at Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY

sowing seeds & growing gift economy together

Join us receiving the generosity of seeds and growing community as we compost scarcity mindsets and sow seeds to surround us all with abundance for generations to come! After sharing Fruition’s 1-hour Gift of Seed practice, we’ll dive into the hands-on experience of seed sowing. As you’re able and inspired, bring potting mix (preferably organic), containers and labels for yourself as well as to share. We’ll talk pros & cons of diverse potting mixes and containers as well as practice the key techniques to successfully start seeds indoors. Feel free to bring other seeds you’d love to sow as well as other seed starting tools you’d love to share in community 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

April 28 – May 1st | Holy Cross Monastery West Park, NY

Retreat: Being Seeds in a Garden of Change

What does it mean to see ourselves as being far more similar to our relatives, the seeds, than different?  What does it mean in the way we understand ourselves to look theologically at the similarities we share with seeds? We live in an age of forgetting – who we are, where we come from, how we are bound to one another and all other species. The call is to re-member.

In this retreat, we will dig deeper into the stories, seeds and soil that nourish our landscapes both within and all around us. With reverent curiosity, we will cultivate both literal and cultural gardens to nourish both our personal and collective flourishing, supporting and supported by the contemplative grace and practice of the Holy Cross Monastery.

Through movement, reflection, creative writing, conversation, song and silence both in the garden and beyond, we’ll navigate both grief and joy as we compost stories no longer serving us. Bring your heartbreak as well as your hope, your laughter as well as your tears, your hunger for a world we’ve forgotten and yet still sometimes taste. Together, let’s re-member, reimagine and grow more fruitful futures.

Learn more and register here.

Sat May 9 | 10 am to 3 pm | Gift of Seed + Transplants + Potluck at Fruition

bring any seedlings you’d love to share as well as potting mix, labels and containers: let’s grow a more abundant world together!

10 to noon: potting up transplants together

noon: potluck!

1 to 3 pm: Gift of Seeds & Transplants (everyone will be invited to receive transplants, even if you don’t have plants to share)

Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds as well as a box for transplants to grow more fruitful futures for all generations to come💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Fri May 15 | time TBD | Plant Share at Rochester’s Public Market

Come be surrounded by thousands of vegetable, flower and herb transplants, Friends! Bring your own to the mix and please receive as much as you’d love, even (especially!) if you have no plants to share💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.

Sun May 17 | Gift of Seed at Fruition

All flourishing is mutual, as Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, and seeds brilliantly embody this generosity, creativity and care. Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Come ready to reflect, connect and honor your gifts as well as we all learn to amplify the gifts of community together. Expect puppets! And lots of seeds! And to come alive as we explore living in ways both old and new. Bring a friend and a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds to sow more fruitful futures for your family, friends, neighbors and strangers as well as all generations yet to come 💛

Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.