SMALL GROUP
SEASONAL STUDY
꩜WINTER: THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY꩜
inquiry with plants & ecosystems
towards caring for ourselves & the earth
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2024
WINTER Study is 4 Mondays beginning January 20
email rose.plantfriends@gmail.com with questions and to register <3
WINTER STUDY IS FULL. Sign up for the newsletter to stay apprised for Spring Study
Deepen your relationship to plants and place.
Satisfy your biophilia.
Bathe with/as nature.
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.
“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
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Limited to 8 participants
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THE WINTER STUDY theme…
THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY
with plants & their allies as our guides, How can we work towards an economic model that acknowledges earth as the foundation?
SCHEDULE & LOCATIONS
(final locations/activities may shift as we get closer to the study!) Carpooling is optional, but supported.
Three Mondays in a row & one Friday evening
Week 1 Monday, Jan 27 - 10am-4pm Angeles National Forest (Near Altadena)
Week 2 Monday, Feb 3 - 10am-4pm tbd
Week 3 Monday, Feb 10 - 10am-4pm Laguna Beach Tide Pools
Week 4 Monday, Feb 17 - 10am-4pm Griffith Park (Leaving from Vermont Canyon Tennis Courts)
(we usually choose locations where parking is free but occasionally $5-10)
VERBS & NOUNS
(core topics & Practices)
*relationships, plant identity, community affinities & kinship (meeting plants by family & communities of life; grounding in the local landscape)
*unique signs of WINTER & place-based seasonal medicine
*tending the wild: reconnecting with people’s ecological roles such as seed saving, sowing & tending California Native Plants
*(working towards) decolonization in conservation/regenerative herbal medicine-making & wild foods
“The sign of a healthy economy
should be a drinkable river”
- Li An Phoa
A few resources for everyone
on this season’s theme of ecological economy
Listen or read: “The Serviceberry, An Economy of Abundance” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (and her new book The Serviceberry)
Tending the Wild
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 the ongoing existing of a very small community-centered space!
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/by paying on the lower end of the scale when needed.
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. 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 OR recipient of substantial familial/generational wealth
$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 substantial familial/generational wealth
$256- Income greater than $50,000 per year and not the recipient of substantial 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
(note: the conservancy currently has a PAUSE on accepting guest offerings, so donations will go to another indigenous-led group in the meantime.)
A NOTE ON FACILITATION/SPACE HOLDING
This study honors each participant as an expert in their own experience. Each of 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.
