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 ~
Friday, May 16 | 6 to 7:30 | at Rochester Public Market
Rochester’s Plant Share & Swap!
Would you love more seedlings to plant in your garden? Do you have extra transplants you’d love to share? You’re invited to the second annual Rochester Plant Share & Swap! You’ll find abundant vegetable, flower and herb transplants as well as divided perennials, houseplant cuttings and seeds. We’ll have all of our many transplant varieties to share as gifts and Friends, most importantly & always: You don’t need to bring any plants to bring home all the plants that you’d love! (Y)our hunger for community is (y)our greatest offering
Thanks for bringing only divided perennials in soil you’re confident is free of jumping worms.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, May 17 | 2 Events | at Fruition Seeds
The Gift of Seeds (& Transplants, too!)
Join us for seeds & diverse tomato, eggplant, ground cherry & pepper transplants being shared as gifts! Come for an experience unlike any ‘market’ experience you’ve ever had: Arrive ~10 minutes early and plan to stay the whole time, as you would for the theater, and come ready to feel, remember, reimagine and celebrate spring with us.
10 am: The Gift of Seed (& Transplants) for adults & babes in arms (plan to stay til noon)
2 pm: The Gift of Seed (& Transplants) for families & kids of all ages (plan to stay til 3 pm)
Bring:
~ yourself! and a friend who also dreams of fruitful futures
~ a box to bring transplants home & bag for seeds
~ a container to bring home organic fertilizer (crab + lobster meal)
~ open hands & hearts to receive (especially if you’ve no seeds to share)
~ hunger for the world we dream of (let’s sow these seeds together)
~ anything you’d love to share! Invitation without expectation: Have you seen our relational, material & financial needs? Take a peek🧡
Sunday May 18 | 3 Events | at Fruition Seeds
The Gift of Seeds (& Transplants!) + Seasonal Work Social
Join us for seeds being shared as gifts! Come for an experience unlike any ‘market’ experience you’ve ever had: Arrive early and plan to stay the whole time, as you would for the theater, and come ready to feel, remember, reimagine and celebrate spring with us.
10 am to noon: Seasonal work social! Join us anytime & let’s bring Fruition to fruition together ~ we’ll be focusing on preparing garden beds, mulching the community orchard and raking stones under our new community pavilion, come take a peek!
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes, bring your own water and dig in with us while making new friends. Bring a lunch to share at noon together and if you’re able, stay for…
2 pm: The Gift of Seeds (for everyone, including families) (plan to stay til 3:30 pm)
Bring:
~ yourself! and a friend who also dreams of fruitful futures
~ a box to bring transplants home & bag for seeds
~ a container to bring home organic fertilizer (crab + lobster meal)
~ open hands & hearts to receive (especially if you’ve no seeds to share)
~ hunger for the world we dream of (let’s sow these seeds together)
~ anything you’d love to share! Invitation without expectation: Have you seen our relational, material & financial needs? Take a peek🧡
Sunday May 18 | Farm Concert! | at Fruition Seeds
Rain or shine, we’re honored to welcome our friend Kathy Lea to the farm, sharing her warm, wise resonance with us all! Listen to her here.
Join us for a potluck at 5 pm and music begins at 6.
Bring:
~ your own plate and utensils
~ a dish to share at the potluck
~ your own folding chair (or other cozy sitting situation)
~ something to thank Kathy Lea for her joy and generosity! She especially welcomes delicious food, knit socks and homemade art as well as financial appreciation.
~ anything you’d love to share! Invitation without expectation: Have you seen our relational, material & financial needs? Take a peek🧡
Saturday, May 24 | 2 Events | at Fruition Seeds
The Gift of Seeds (& Transplants, too!)
Join us for seeds & transplants being shared as gifts! Come for an experience unlike any ‘market’ experience you’ve ever had: Arrive ~10 minutes early and plan to stay the whole time, as you would for the theater, and come ready to feel, remember, reimagine and celebrate spring with us.
10 am: The Gift of Seed (& Transplants) for adults & babes in arms (plan to stay til noon)
join us for a potluck in between gifting gatherings, if you’d love to stay! bring your own dishes as well as a dish to pass 💛
2 pm: The Gift of Seed (& Transplants) for families & kids of all ages (plan to stay til 3 pm)
Bring:
~ yourself! and a friend who also dreams of fruitful futures
~ a box to bring transplants home & bag for seeds
~ a container to bring home organic fertilizer (crab + lobster meal)
~ open hands & hearts to receive (especially if you’ve no seeds to share)
~ hunger for the world we dream of (let’s sow these seeds together)
~ anything you’d love to share! Invitation without expectation: Have you seen our relational, material & financial needs? Take a peek🧡
Sunday May 25 | 2 Events | at Fruition Seeds
The Gift of Seeds (& Transplants!) + Seasonal Work Social
Join us for seeds being shared as gifts! Come for an experience unlike any ‘market’ experience you’ve ever had: Arrive early and plan to stay the whole time, as you would for the theater, and come ready to feel, remember, reimagine and celebrate spring with us.
10 to noon: Seasonal work social: Let’s bring Fruition to fruition together! Wear comfortable clothes and shoes, bring your own water and dig in with us while making new friends. Bring a lunch to share at noon together and if you’re able, stay for…
Join us for seeds being shared as gifts! Come for an experience unlike any ‘market’ experience you’ve ever had: Arrive ~10 minutes early and plan to stay the whole time, as you would for the theater, and come ready to feel, remember, reimagine and celebrate spring with us 💛
2 pm: The Gift of Seeds (for everyone, including families) (plan to stay til 3:30)
Bring:
~ yourself! and a friend who also dreams of fruitful futures
~ a box to bring transplants home & bag for seeds
~ a container to bring home organic fertilizer (crab + lobster meal)
~ open hands & hearts to receive (especially if you’ve no seeds to share)
~ hunger for the world we dream of (let’s sow these seeds together)
~ anything you’d love to share! Invitation without expectation: Have you seen our relational, material & financial needs? Take a peek🧡
Wednesday June 4 | 4 to 6 pm | at Naples Library
Community Gardening & Potluck!
Join us planting the Naples Library Community Garden, Friends! Come with your curiosity, get ready to get dirty and let’s share a celebratory potluck at 6 pm! Arrive and depart as you feel called and bring your own plate and utensils for the potluck, as well. And bring a bag to bring something tasty home from the garden, as well 💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday June 14 | noon to 3 pm | at Bristol Valley Theater
Frederick Douglass Day!
Join us celebrating history and our shared liberatory future, Friends! Commemorating Douglass’ 1862 speech in Naples, join our potluck as the MLK Choir serenades and Frederick is reenacted by a beloved regional force of present-day love and change. More details soon to come💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday June 28 | 10 to 2 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Share the Harvest: Garlic Scape U-Pick Party!
Whether you’d love 20 or 200+ garlic scapes to savor (pickles or pesto, anyone?!!), bring your family and friends to harvest them here at Fruition! We’ll gather by our Sow Seeds & Sing Songs mural at 10, walking to the west field to harvest together. Bring comfortable walking shoes, your own bag(s) to bring scapes home in as well as water to sip in the sunshine — and yes, we’ve plenty of fresh mint to tuck in your bottle!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday July 2 | 4 to 6 pm | at Naples Library
Community Gardening & Potluck!
Join us tending the Naples Library Community Garden, Friends! Come with your curiosity, get ready to get dirty and let’s share a celebratory potluck at 6 pm! Arrive and depart as you feel called and bring your own plate and utensils for the potluck, as well. Oh and: bring a bag to bring home abundance!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday July 19 | potluck at 4, music at 6 & performance at 6:30 | The Tempest at Fruition
Shake on the Lake is bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Fruition! If you’d love to join our potluck prior, bring your own dishes and dish to pass and bring your own folding chairs and / or blanket to sit on, as well. We’ll be outside, so come prepared for temps to drop as the sun descends and what a magical evening we’ll long remember, Friends!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday, July 30 | 6:30 to 7:30 | Online
The Serviceberry: Let’s Read, Reflect & Amplify the Gift
Robin’s words have profoundly influenced Fruition’s shift into growing and gifting rather than continuing to sell and ship seeds. In collaboration with Ganondagan, let’s remember to remember together as we read aloud, reflect on our lives and the wider world, preparing to let our gardens and plant kin grow us in the many moments and seasons to come. Stay tuned for link details.
If you’d love to read along, dive headlong into her luminous essay, The Serviceberry. You’ll also find a recording of Robin reading her own words, as warm as the ancient invitation. Her most recent book, The Serviceberry, expands the essay in extraordinary ways and you can support indigenous booksellers when you purchase it from Ganondagan.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday August 6 | 4 to 6 pm | at Naples Library
Community Gardening & Potluck!
Join us tending the Naples Library Community Garden, Friends! Come with your curiosity, get ready to get dirty and let’s share a celebratory potluck at 6 pm! Arrive and depart as you feel called and bring your own plate and utensils for the potluck, as well. Oh and: bring a bag to bring home abundance!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
August 7th to 10th | at Folk Art Guild’s Craft Weekend in Middlesex, NY
Saving Our Seeds, Saving Ourselves: Skills & songs for fruitful futures
What if gardens grow us more than we grow them? What if seeds save us more than we save them? With reverent curiosity, let’s cultivate our seed skills both practical and cultural to nourish both our personal and collective abundance. With gardens, fields and forests as our teachers, let’s center the wisdom of seeds, our 400 million year old ancestors and mentors.
Whether you’ve saved seeds for years or dreamed for years, your questions, curiosity and dreams will be watered by hands-on practice, conversation, creative writing and song. We’ll build a foundation of seed saving knowledge, diving deep into practical botany in the gardens as we harvest seeds together and learn to winnow them using simple tools many of us already have at home. We’ll cultivate connection with the seeds of our heritage and invite seeds, as portals to possibility, to nourish and grow communities of care around us. With words, songs and silence we’ll reflect and make seed mandalas, as well! We know a more fruitful future for all is possible and Friends, we are the seeds, it takes a village and your plate is waiting ~
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday August 16 | 10 to 8 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Nourish: Tomato Tasting, Seed Saving & Harvest Potluck Feast
Let’s taste all kinds of tomatoes and save tomato seeds, Friends! Together we’ll harvest and then squeeze seeds from each fruit so everyone returns home with an abundance of organic tomatoes ready for salsa, sauce and many seasons to come. Bring an empty container (5 gallon buckets welcome) and bring your friends!
10 am: Join us harvesting fruit & squeezing seeds!
noon: potluck lunch
1 pm: tomato squeezing continues as other people prepare tomatoes for sauce in Fruition’s community kitchen as well as tomato dishes for our Harvest Feast. Come hungry to share as well as learn 🙂
4 pm: Join our Harvest Potluck Feast!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday August 23 | 10 to 5 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Fruition’s Melon Celebration!
Each year we grow a small ocean of melons “just” for the seeds inside (!) so come help us savor all the fruit with friends!
Join us for an all-you-can-eat melon tasting alongside a scavenger hunt of a hands-on farm tour, designed with kids (of all ages!) in mind.
10 am: Join us for a pre-melon celebration work party social as we tend the farm together ~ and oh we love you!
noon: potluck lunch (bring your own dishes as well as dish to pass)
1 to 5 pm: savor watermelon!
2 pm: join our farm tour
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday September 3 | 4 to 6 pm | at Naples Library
Community Gardening & Potluck!
Join us tending the Naples Library Community Garden, Friends! Come with your curiosity, get ready to get dirty and let’s share a celebratory potluck at 6 pm! Arrive and depart as you feel called and bring your own plate and utensils for the potluck, as well. Oh and: bring a bag to bring home abundance!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday October 1 | 4 to 6 pm | at Naples Library
Community Gardening & Potluck!
Join us putting to bed the Naples Library Community Garden, Friends! Come with your curiosity, get ready to get dirty and let’s share a celebratory potluck at 6 pm! Arrive and depart as you feel called and bring your own plate and utensils for the potluck, as well. Oh and: bring a bag to bring home abundance!
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: