Events

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.

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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 💛

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Tuesday Nov 25 | 2 to 4 pm | Naples Library

Let’s sing and laugh and cry and be humans together as we harvest the final greens to share and put the community gardens at the Naples Library to bed! Come for 2 minutes or two hours and know you’ll make my day to share even a moment together. And savor frost-sweetened greens, huzzah!

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Sunday Nov 30 | 10:30 am | at First Universalist Church,  150 S. Clinton Ave 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!

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Sunday Nov 30 | noon | at First Universalist Church,  150 S. Clinton Ave 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.

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Fri Dec 5 | 6 to 7 pm | Caroling at the Naples Library!

Come join us singing in the season, cozy in the library! Secular and non-secular classics alike, we’ll have lyrics sheets and drop in for some or all of the fun 💛

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Sat Dec 6 | 4 to 8 pm | Reader’s Theater of Dicken’s Christmas Carol at Fruition

Let’s share a singularly hilarious & humanizing dramatic reading of Dicken’s Christmas Carol, a radio version from the 1930s! All ages are welcome. Arrive at 4 pm for carols & casting. At 4:30 we begin! Potluck to follow and do dress and bring bites as British-inspired as brings joy. Falalalalaaaaa and bahumbug!

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Fri Dec 12 | 6 to 7:30 pm | Caroling Around Naples!

Come join us singing in the season, knocking on doors and making spirits bright! Secular and non-secular classics alike, we’ll have lyrics sheets and meet us at the Naples Library just before 6 💛

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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.