SMALL GROUP
SEASONAL STUDY
꩜SPRING꩜
inquiry with plants & ecology
towards caring for ourselves & the earth
Spring Study is 4 Mondays and a field trip in March-May 2024
Sign up for the newsletter to learn when registration opens or email rose.plantfriends@gmail.com to inquire. Details coming soon! In the meantime, check out the Winter Study curriculum below for a sense of the culture and practices of Plant Friends small group studies.
SMALL GROUP
SEASONAL STUDY
꩜winter꩜
inquiry with plants & ecology
towards caring for ourselves & the earth
winter study begins January 15th, 2023
3 full Mondays and 1 Thursday eve on the wild edges in & among Tongva, Kizh, Chumash & Tataviam land learning from/with the plants and one another in a wider community of life in Los Angeles.
Seasonal study participants are also invited to attend all Plant Friends walks led by Rose during January.
Deepen your relationship to plants and place.
Satisfy your biophilia.
Bathe with/as nature.
above: Seasonal Study FALL Theme: //SEEDS //
Seasonal study is kind of like Girl Scouts but 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.
Email rose.plantfriends@gmail.com to register or to chat about the study <3
SCHEDULE & LOCATIONS
(final locations may shift as we get closer to the study!)
Week 1 - Monday, January 15th, 10am-3pm Towsley Canyon near Santa Clarita
Getting to know our aromatic flora of Southern California
Week 2 Part One - Monday, January 22nd, 10am-3pm Santa Monica Mountains (likely Griffith Park)
tending relationship-based aromatic medicine (with reciprocity)
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Week 2 Part Two - Thursday, January 25th,1pm-6:30pm!!!(SUNSET & FULL MOON HIKE))Angeles National Forest near Altadena
ecology of fire & cosmic fire appreciation
Week 3 - Monday, January 29th,Topanga State Forest(budget $5 for parking), 10am-3pm
aromatic ceremony- literally steeping in the medicine together - practicing community-centered medicine-making
Some of these locations include moderately challenging narrow/steep/uneven terrain. Let me know if you have any concerns about the accessibility of the walks in this course!
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PARTICIPANTS
Limited to 8 participants
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(friendly & chill canine participants invited when trail rules & activities allow)
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 fall & 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
The theme for WINTER IS FIRE & AROMATIC PLANTS
SLIDING SCALE TUITION
5% of tuition to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy
Below are my suggestions for what to pay. Income is an incomplete guide, so use the following as a guide but adapt to your circumstances. 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. You’re supporting a small, heart-led business!
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 or pay-what-you-can seat (of which there are up to two).
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
(2 pay-what-you-can spaces available; 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 bringing their unique set of own gifts, wisdom and experience to shape the study. As a facilitator, I (Rose Fairley! Hi!) share my experience as a Certified California Naturalist, Certified California Native Plant Landscaper, RN-herbalist & a decade of gardening, growing and tending wild foods and plants native to the regions where I have lived. Plant Friends is committed to providing a safer space where we work towards equity.
A Few Resources for everyone,
on the theme of fire and aromatic plants
꩜ Saging the World Campaign Santa Monica CNPS & How to Grow White Sage from Seed