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.
September 12 | 4:30 to 5:30 pm | Spirit Kindred Women’s Music and Medicine Gathering in Ithaca, NY
Keynote Address including Gift of Seed Practice
Learn more and join us here!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 13 | noon to 2 pm | Save Seeds with Us at Salt City Farm near Syracuse!
Would you love to learn more about seed saving? Would you love to bring your own saved seed to clean together with our mobile seed cleaning equipment? Join Crystal Stewart and Greg Vogel of Cornell and I (Petra!) as we share seed saving fundamentals both as principles and practice with plenty of stories and songs!
Register here for this free experience and join us with a fundraising ticket for the rest of the afternoon including more seed saving as well as an extraordinary Afghani supper prepared by some of Salt City Harvest’s beloved farmers.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 15 | 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’› If you’re reasonably regional and would love to receive lil text invitations to (un)official work parties and abundance sharing here on the farm, send a sweet ask of an email to petra (at) fruitionseeds.com with your phone number. See you soon!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 19 | noon to 12:50 | Common Ground Fair in Maine (yoga & railcar tent)
The Gift of Seeds: Cultivating gift culture for kids (of all ages)
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends! There will be plenty of watermelons as well as seeds for short seasons involved in this delicious experience of sowing new worlds together and we’re so grateful to collaborate with our dear friends Maine Heirloom Seed Network.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 20 | 2 to 2:50 | Common Ground Fair in Maine (windsor tent)
The Gift of Seed: Tools for (re)Building an agricultural gift economy
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends! There will be plenty of watermelons as well as seeds for short seasons involved in this delicious experience of sowing new worlds together and we’re so grateful to collaborate with our dear friends Maine Heirloom Seed Network.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 21 | 2 to 2:50 | Common Ground Fair in Maine (windsor tent)
The Gift of Seed: Tools for (re)Building an agricultural gift economy
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends! There will be plenty of watermelons as well as seeds for short seasons involved in this delicious experience of sowing new worlds together and we’re so grateful to collaborate with our dear friends Maine Heirloom Seed Network.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 22 | 10 to 5 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Work Party & Potluck: Becoming Good Soil Together
Though Petra will be in Maine, join Matthew and 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.
Monday, September 22 | 4 to 8 pm | College of the Atlantic, Maine (Center for Human Ecology Room 202)
Potluck + The Gift of Seed: principles & practices (re)learning gift economy
With seeds as our teachers, let’s practice embodied principles of gift economy for our lives and collective future! Join us for any & all of these invitations to deepen together:
4:10 to 5:30 ~ principles & practices of gift economy
5:30 to 6:30 ~ potluck! bring your own dishes
6:30 to 8 ~ Gift of Seed Embodied Practice
Come for play as well as practice, carrot seeds as well as conversation. We’ll be sharing so many seeds as well as supper! Also, if you’d love to hike with me while I’m in the area, don’t be shy ~ petra (at) fruitionseeds.com ~
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, September 27 | 10 am to 8 pm | Belfast Grange in Maine
Feeding, Seeding & Singing the Future: sharing the harvest with principles & practices of embodied gift culture
Join us for some or all of this glorious harvest celebration, Friends! Details may shift and tentatively plan: At 10 am we’ll grow our seed saving skills as we prepare food (as we save seeds) for the Belfast Food Pantry as well as a shared harvest lunch together at 1. From 2 to 4:30 we’ll share our Gift of Seed embodied practice (bring a bag for seeds you’ll receive, yes!) followed at 5 by a potluck supper and music at 6 đź’›
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
September 29 | 10 to 5 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Work Party & Potluck: Becoming Good Soil Together
Though Petra will be in Maine, join Matthew and 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.
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.
Monday, October 6 | 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’› If you’re reasonably regional and would love to receive lil text invitations to (un)official work parties and abundance sharing here on the farm, send a sweet ask of an email to petra (at) fruitionseeds.com with your phone number. See you soon!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, October 11 | noon to 4 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Alchemize: Community U-Dig Ginger + Fire Cider Making Annual Celebration
We are each other’s medicine! At noon we’ll share a farm tour and at 1 we’ll dig ginger together. At 2 we’ll make fire cider together and YES! Bring any and all ingredients for fire cider you may have available, trusting that you simply arriving is all you need to receive all you’d love. Curious what ingredients to bring? Take a peek at our blog and the short list includes garlic, onions, hot peppers, rose hips, raw apple cider vinegar, jars, honey, thyme and oregano. See you soon!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
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’› If you’re reasonably regional and would love to receive lil text invitations to (un)official work parties and abundance sharing here on the farm, send a sweet ask of an email to petra (at) fruitionseeds.com with your phone number. See you soon!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, October 25th | Harvest Fest | Martha’s Vineyard, MA
The Gift of Seed + Seed Saving + Potluck!
With more details to come, Petra will be sharing seed saving demos from 9 to 2 at Harvest Fest! Join us from 2:30 to 5 for The Gift of Seed (bring a bag for all the seed packets you’ll bring home) followed by a potluck.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday, October 26th | time TBD | West Tisbury Public Library, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Seeds & Embodied Gift Practices for More Fruitful Futures
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday Nov 8 | details TBD | in Niagara Falls, NY
The Gift of Seed
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends!
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 | 10 am | at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY
Join the conversation! Petra will share “Practicing Gift Economy in Gardens + Polycrisis” at an interfaith climate summit and stay tuned for registration info soon ~
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: