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.
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 appletrees, 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
Practicing Gift Economy in Uncertain Times
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 💛
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
Seeds of Change: Risk & Gift Culture
What do we risk as we practice collective care inside market economy? If you’ve read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s words and hunger to weave this wisdom into your daily life, join us. With plants as our teachers, 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 deeper dialogue after coffee hour!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday Nov 30 | noon | at First Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY
Embodied Gift Economics: Principles & Practices Re-Weaving Interdependent Webs
Let’s TALK! Bring your curiosities, questions, concerns & deep care for all beings. We don’t pretend to have answers and we do claim our hearts broken by market economy can inspire humans re-membering gift culture. Come learn, share, long and practice with us, as well as sow more fruitful futures together, for us all.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Date + Time Dec TBD | Solstice + Reader’s Theater of Christmas Carol at Fruition
Embodied Gift Economics: Principles & Practices Re-Weaving Interdependent Webs
Let’s TALK! Bring your curiosities, questions, concerns & deep care for all beings. We don’t pretend to have answers and we do claim our hearts broken by market economy can inspire humans re-membering gift culture. Come learn, share, long and practice with us, as well as sow more fruitful futures together, for us all.
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.
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: