SMALL GROUP
SEASONAL STUDY
꩜SPRING꩜
inquiry with plants & ecology
towards caring for ourselves & the earth
March-May 2024
Spring Study is 4 Mondays*** in March and April
***Monday is filling up so I’m considering adding a Friday cohort.
email rose.plantfriends@gmail.com with questions and to register <3
Each day is an immersion in the wild edges in & among Tongva, Kizh, Chumash & Tataviam lands learning from/with the plants and one another in a wider community of life in Los Angeles.
Deepen your relationship to plants and place.
Satisfy your biophilia.
Bathe with/as nature.
“Like Girl Scouts for adults of all genders…who love plants.”
Join us in community practice of embodied ecology as we learn from the earth towards tending our collective wellbeing.
SMALL GROUP
Limited to 8 participants
***
(friendly & chill canine participants invited when trail rules & activities allow)
SPRING theme POLLEN &
POLLINATORS
SCHEDULE & LOCATIONS
(final locations/activities may shift as we get closer to the study!)
Week 1 Monday, March 11th - Connecting with flowers, flower identification (parts and thangs) & plant-pollinator-food web connections TOPANGA
Week 2 - Monday,March 18th - 10am-3pm
Preparing for the EQUINOX - what are we pollinating? And more plant-pollinator-food web connections SANTA CLARITA
Week 3 - Monday March 25th - 515pm-915pm FULL MOON walk & MOTH “bio-blitz” (an evening of community science surveying for moths) ALTADENA
&
Week 4 - Monday, April 22 Plant Friends Miguel Torres & Anna Rybchenkov are guest leading this day of embodied flower connections and creative ecology!
(parking is usually free but occasionally $5)
The theme for SPRING IS POLLEN AND POLLINATORS.
Did you know that California alone has about 1600 species of native bees - many of which don’t live in colonies and some that specialize on specific flowers! Have you noticed that pollen can be a rainbow of colors from vivid shades of pink and purple to gold and brown?
Come learn about the myriad lives and relationships that unfold in miniature and why ecologist E.O. Wilson called insects “the little things that run the world.”
VERBS & NOUNS
(core topics & Practices)
*ecological relationships, plant identity, community affinities & kinship (meeting plants by family & communities of life; grounding in the local landscape)
*signs of SPRING & place-based seasonal medicine
*tending the wild: humxn ecological roles such as seed saving, sowing & tending California Native Plants
*(working towards) decolonial/regenerative herbal medicine-making & wild foods
SLIDING SCALE TUITION
5% of tuition to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy
SEASONAL STUDY $120 - $900* read suggestions below to guide what you pay
Below are my suggestions for what to pay. Keep in mind you’re supporting a small, heart-led business!
You may notice a much wider range of tuition than is common! I believe that finances should not prohibit access to this community space, and seek to balance this with my need for a modest, healthy livelihood.
This scale seeks to (imperfectly) account for a wide imbalance of inherited wealth and privilege in our culture. I ask those of you with privilege and resources to connect to your own sense of abundance and generosity, while those with less I invite to ask for support in the form of a payment plan.
Income is an incomplete guide, so use the following as a guide but adapt to your circumstances
I trust you to use this scale with integrity, and to pay appropriately if you choose to join us (i.e. a different savings goal is not a good reason to pay less than you are able but on the flip side if you are struggling to pay rent I do not want this to contribute to your housing insecurity/stress). Please do adjust for your own circumstances - we want this medicine in the world!
$120 - $900
(payment plans for all tiers on request)
$900 or more- Income greater than $300,000 per year
$646 - Income greater than $220,00 per year and less than $300,000 per year
$392 - Income greater than $80,000 per year and less than $220,00 per year or recipient of familial/generational wealth
$256- Income greater than $50,000 per year and not the recipient of familial/generational wealth
$120 or pay-what-you-can - Income less than $50,000 per year and not the recipient of familial/generational wealth
REGISTRATION
Email rose.plantfriends@gmail.com with questions and to register & pay. Payment secures your seat!
5% of tuition to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy
A NOTE ON FACILITATION/SPACE HOLDING
This study honors each participant as an expert in their own experience. Each od us bring a unique set of own gifts, wisdom and experience to shape the study. As a facilitator, I (Rose Fairley! Hi!) share my experience as a mammal and long-time student of plants, ecology, gardening, wild foods and herbal medicine! I am a Certified California Naturalist, Certified California Native Plant Landscaper, RN-herbalist, but I have truly learned the most through experience and relationships with floral, fungal and faunal (humxn included!) teachers.
Plant Friends is committed to emergent, collaborative offerings and providing a safer space where we work towards equity.
A Few Resources for everyone,
on the theme of pollen and pollinators