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 July 19 | 10 am to 9 pm | arrive anytime
Garlic Harvest, Garlic Gifting + Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Fruition
10 am: Garlic harvest & curing! Come hungry to learn as well as help. If it’s easy, bring a dairy-free offering for our potluck lunch around 1.
3 pm: Garlic gifting! We’re honored to share garlic both as food and seed for generations yet to come. Thanks for receiving only what you’re able to cure at home & share in your mutual aid networks. We’ll also share summer and autumn-sown seeds. Arrive promptly and plan to stay for our full garlic gifting circle til 4.
4 pm: Farm tour!
4:30: Potluck! (bring a dairy-free dish to pass!)
6 pm: Music!
6:30 pm: The Tempest! performed by Shake on the Lake
8 pm: Conversation with Director & Cast
Bring:
~ a chair or blanket to sit on for the performance
~ clothing to be comfortable as the fireflies join us
~ a bag to bring home garlic & summer / fall sown seeds
~ friends & family to make delicious memories with
~ hunger for a more courageously playful and delectable world for all
~ reciprocity & curiosity
If you’re able to joyfully share financial abundance, thanks for bringing this form of care & making Shake on the Lake’s non-profit education mission possible. Either way, we love you more & see you soon💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Monday July 21 | 10 to 4 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Work Party: Becoming Good Soil Together!
Rain or shine, 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. 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💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday July 27 | noon to 8 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Needs are Gifts: First Aid + Mutual Aid + Potluck + Music
Rain or shine, let’s make medicine, music and a better world together!
Noon: Farm Tour
1 pm: Community Salve Making! Let’s bring what we have and be open to receiving the generosity (the medicine!) of strangers becoming friends 💛 So yes! If you have any, bring an infused oil (calendula, arnica, comfrey, plantain, whatever you’ve got!), beeswax, empty tins and / or stickers for labeling. We’ll talk about the medicinal properties of all the oils and combine them as we feel so moved, bringing home just the balm we need for our bodies as well as souls.
2:30 pm: Nourishing Mutual Aid Networks! Let’s celebrate & connect the mutual aid already practiced in our communities, explore how we can support each other & sow seeds of burgeoning mutual aid possibilities. We’ll also explore how ‘needs are gifts’ feels and might grow in our personal & interpersonal lives. (Come ready to share
5 pm: Potluck! Bring a dairy-free dish to share as brings ease & joy, along with an ingredients label. We’ll have plenty of labels here on the farm for you, too.
6:30 pm: Alison & Zoë (Honey for the Bees Duo!) with Natasia on violin and lilting harmonies! Their folk-inspired originals will open into a community song circle around the fire 💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Monday July 28 | 10 to 4 pm | at Fruition Seeds
Work Party: Becoming Good Soil Together!
Rain or shine, 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. 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💛
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.
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.
September 12 | time TBD | Spirit Kindred Women’s Music and Medicine Gathering in Ithaca, NY
Keynote Address & Gift of Seed
Save the date & stay tuned, Friends! 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 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 28 | details TBD | Belfast, Maine
The Gift of Seed: Tools for (re)Building an agricultural gift economy
Save the date & stay tuned! This will be delectable full day of growing our skills, sharing the harvest & cultivating the world we dream of together 💛
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.
Sept 19 – 28 | details TBD | in Maine
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.
Oct 23 – 26 | details TBD | in Martha’s Vineyard, MA
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 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.
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: