Friends!
Perhaps you’ve heard our hard and beautiful news:
Fruition will soon stop selling and shipping seeds, though we will continue sharing seeds as a gift-inspired practice.
What you’ll find here is a long, soul-searching story about how we’ve come to this transitional moment.
We are far from going ‘out of business,’ though our work will feel different for us all, especially if you’re accustomed to ordering on our website. If you’re looking for more concrete details of how we’ll give and receive seeds and beyond together in the future, skip straight to Section 5 and 9. You’ll likely appreciate our FAQs, as well. We also made this form so we can more deeply accompany each other in mutually sustaining ways, hop on in!
Above all, know we love you and we are deeply committed to sharing seeds with you and our community near and far. Though receiving seeds from us may become less convenient, we’re confident our relationships will yield that much more meaning and connection for us all.
If you don’t already receive our emails, keep in touch with us here.
As house wrens outside the kitchen window are leaping from their nest, voices and wings becoming stronger by the hour, we are honored to share an invitation to leap from what we’ve only known together, toward something that may be invisible yet capable of holding us all, with perhaps a fresh set of wings 💛
By Petra Page-Mann
with the deep presence, care and invitation of Many Beings
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin
Seasons Change
Imagine harvesting a sumptuous slicing tomato in August, warm in the sun. Soft fruit falls off the vine, sweet and heavy in your hand:
What a gift.
How might we possibly say and live thank you?
Let’s savor this tomato, certainly.
And we cannot also help but wonder:
Does the tomato expect $4 from us? Immediately? Or Ever?
Since well before the dawn of dollars, barter and market economies, tomatoes have trusted they will receive what they need and share what they can, all in service of the wider whole. And Friends:
Might we do the same?
Inspired by plants and the world around us modeling collective care, composting what is no longer life-giving and constantly adapting to a changing, possible world:
Fruition is moving away from selling and shipping seeds.
(And ohhhhh don’t worry, we will continue sharing seeds with you for many seasons to come! Our website will continue to be a source of extensive growing information and stories, though we’ll be removing ‘carts,’ checkout, and ordering by September 1st.)
As seasons change within and around us, we can no longer commodify our beloved kin, these seeds, or ourselves.
More deeply, we can no longer resist the urge to shout to the hills:
Seeds are Gifts
And Friends, gifts call us into sharing:
Soon we’ll be sharing seeds rather than selling seeds.
As we uncouple our giving and receiving — giving what we’re able and receiving what we need, separate from the market’s perceived value of our work, lives and love — we are not alone:
Thank you for joining us!
There’s so much more to say and first:
May I share?
Writing this love letter — for the seeds, for our ancestors, for you, for us all — has been one of the most exquisite privileges and challenges of my life. How might I weave words so you might feel kindred connection, care and belonging amid the sadness of this chapter’s closing for Fruition: “What do you mean, you won’t ship seeds to my door anymore?” There is no rushing a sunflower to bloom. There is no rushing a sunset of grief. How could I possibly expect you to move through waves of emotion in minutes that have taken Matthew and I years (at least five and probably forty) to sense, acknowledge, welcome, grapple with, question, grieve, grow into & finally celebrate?
This morning, as I witness baby robins bobbling about the farm, first flights left and right, I’m grateful to be finding these words and wings to share with you. I trust, like air, what is present — though not yet visible — will carry us all.
This much we know: There is no finer community we would rather trust-fall into the arms of. Can you feel it? The unraveling edges of scarcity, of separation, of old ways of being? We’re weaving a new fabric together, Friends.
Let us remember:
We’ve already been exploring this work — growing and sharing seeds, gardens, community and business not as usual — for twelve years together. As you’ve found meaning in our thousands of videos, growing guides, online courses, blogs — as you’ve joined us on the farm harvesting garlic scapes, transforming cabbage into kraut, helping ginger become fire cider, squeezing seeds from tomatoes to bring home, making possible and savoring our Joy and Solidarity Suppers — would you say all this is simply ‘free’? Or would you say these are gifts in service of what is most alive, whole and possible in us all?
Do we even have words for this alchemy, the dance of interdependence, of receiving and giving beyond ledgers and lifetimes? How do we explore and celebrate abundance, connection and possibility beyond market value?
Friends, let’s deepen our gift practice together.
Both as individuals and as a community.
As we move forward together, let us remember:
We won’t be perfect. We’ll fumble and fall. We’ll laugh at our naivete, cry at the cusp of letting go of yet another cloaked comfort. We make no claim to right or wrong, to proffer solutions.
Let us trust discomfort as a sign we are growing.
Because ohhhh: There will be moments when our perception of lacking abundance will feel more real than the trust of abundance to come. In those tenuous, sacred moments, may the emptiness we feel carve yet greater capacity within us to hold whatever next comes: despair, delight, compost, compassion, sunflower, soil.
Thank you for reading on, Friends. And thank you for feeling and leaning into the invitation to join us exploring, trusting and celebrating the gifts of abundance shared.
Perhaps you’re curious how we’ve arrived here? Where, in fact, are we? And where are we going?
We’re curious, too. An invitation for you:
Stepping Back
Also, if you wish to zoom forward for ‘how the heck is this going to work?’ we love you and invite you to hop to section 5. Take a peek at section 13, too, for details on two gatherings to process all this together (Online Monday, July 1st and on the farm Wednesday, July 24th from 5 to 8 pm, more details below!)
1.
“The world is full of gifts.”
Olly Costello
I remember.
Plucking tomatoes in my father’s garden, sun-warm and oh so sweet.
Saving their seeds, in awe of how many were held in a single, succulent fruit.
“We only need a few of these seeds for us, Pappa!”
“That’s right,” he said. “Look how many we have to share with friends.”
Let’s get back to that.
2.
The Invitation
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi
The invitation of a seed is to change. To grow. To adapt. To transform the world even as their being is being forever transformed. So too, seeds are calling us to grow beyond the seed and seedling of what we have only known as Fruition these last twelve years.
Like a massive oak rising from a tiny acorn, here is the invitation we are heeding and inviting you into, with us:
After twelve years of growing & sharing regionally adapted seeds in our watershed and around the world, Fruition will soon be sharing seeds as a gift-inspired practice rather than selling seeds as a market-driven business.
As our friend Maddie has asked, what would it mean to embody the phrase “seed company” by truly accompanying the seeds (and ourselves) rather than commodifying and selling them?
The call is simple enough:
Seeds are gifts.
Gifts are shared.
Not sold, not hoarded or otherwise contained by control.
Friends, we are accepting the invitation to begin this journey, understanding we are asking to be held as much as we are here to hold others.
How might our receiving and giving be so generous and joyful that we can no longer discern the difference and leave behind our ledgers?
3.
Trusting Change
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
~ Octavia Butler
There are many ways to garden, to savor tomatoes and share what we love.
How do we expand what we believe is possible, even as the wind (and we) change course?
When Marie Kondo discerned, after the birth of her third child, that ‘other things spark joy’ besides tidiness (!), the invitation was to widen what sparks joy rather than dismiss what sparked past joy.
Similarly, our transition to sharing seeds resists demonizing the selling of seeds.
The risks, loves and leaps we all take to hospice modernity look different for each of us.
We wouldn’t change a step of the journey that’s brought us together, Friends.
After years of feeling chaotic inside the chrysalis, only knowing how to be a caterpillar in the world — knowing we are no longer a caterpillar — we feel the courage to trust silent convictions (seeds are gifts to be shared, not sold), though they offer little practical clarity on either side of the cocoon’s ooze.
We continued to act as caterpillars, selling seeds, until we could no longer. Our seams have now split open. Our wings crumpled and damp. This much we know:
Seeds are gifts.
Acts of service.
Seeds are beings, animated and animating.
And we joyfully dedicate our lives to unfurling with them, our beloved kin and teachers.
How will we survive? We have so many questions. We also have so many mentors.
4.
Seeds: Mentors in Generosity
“A question blooms season after season, yielding new flowers, new ideas.”
Sophie Strand, The Madonna Secret
Seeds are our 400 million year old ancestors, right here in our hands. Our beloved, living, breathing mentors, embodying the principles and practices of adaptive growth, self care as community care and delicious, ‘reckless generosity,’ as Adam Wilson profoundly invites. Seeds are also exquisite teachers of letting go of what once was, leaning into what may be, composting what no longer serves and growing into what may be. Portals of possibility, says Olly Costello.
“Imagine cutting the bottoms out of our pockets,” Adam offered a few weeks back on our farm. “How would our lives be different, if we couldn’t hold on to pennies or seeds? Or anything?”
Honoring seeds, our ancestors and Adam, we’re cutting the bottoms out of our pockets, Friends.
Because seeds grow in the soil, not hidden in our pockets.
Because we trust you, our beloved community, to practice sharing and losing our ‘need’ for such pockets together.
Because what we tend grows.
Together, let’s remember: ten thousand seeds may grow from a single seed. Each of those ten thousand may become ten thousand more…
…and this.
This!
Beyond our limited understanding of economy and ecology, this is the hope we seek to emulate, celebrate and share together, Friends.
Moving Forward
5.
Receiving Seeds from Fruition
“Who else has the capacity to transform light, air, and water into food and medicine—and then share it? Who cares for the people as generously as plants? Creative, wise, and powerful, plants are imbued with spirit in a way that the western worldview reserves only for humans.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
As we together remember and reimagine what sharing seeds as gifts might look, feel and taste like, how might you, our beloved community, receive them?
Let us affirm: Though our approach to sharing seeds is shifting away from buying, selling and other familiar facets of market economy, we’re more passionately than ever committed to growing and regionally adapting alongside hundreds of varieties of seeds and trees on this sweet, generous land with you.
There are so many seeds we’ve yet to sow and share!
And Friends, though we’ve never sold seeds solely as the transactional commodity our society has made seeds in the last 150 years, Fruition is committed to sharing seeds more and more deeply as relational, animate and animating gifts, as our ancestors plant and humxn have since time immemorial.
For us, that means sharing them with Adam’s ‘reckless generosity’ without requiring a market price to be paid.
So how will we sustain our work and lives? We’ll dig into that soon, but first:
How might you receive seeds from us in the future? Here are two ways:
#1: Join us here on the farm!
So many of you have come to receive seeds, transplants and trees already on the farm and Friends, come on back! We cherish the gift of being in relationship with you here on the land that nourishes us all.
We’ll share abundant opportunities to gather on the farm and share seeds throughout the year, especially in early spring as we all prepare and plant our gardens. Though we don’t anticipate having ‘normal business hours,’ we are growing seeds to be in community, so trust there will be ample opportunities to connect, receive and amplify the abundance.
#2: Let us come to you!
Hello, Rochester! Sending love, Ithaca! See you soon, Buffalo, Burlington, Boston and beyond!
Would you love to welcome our merry traveling seed gifting practice in the future?
Let’s start the conversation here!
We love being here on the farm and ohhhhh, we look so forward to bringing these seeds to your backyards, Friends. As we center seeds and relational gifting over market economy and access, we’ll be looking for places to welcome our merry pop-up seed gifting practice. So don’t be shy! As we invite gift culture into our community more widely, we imagine showing up for a few hours or few days in community spaces like libraries, garden centers, food coops and anywhere people may gather to share generosity and joy. Though the unknown is the only known, we are committed to embodying abundance just like these seeds: willing to travel and brilliantly designed to be shared expansively. If you find yourself drawn to dream such dreams with us, hop over to All Flourishing is Mutual: A Lil Survey for Growing Together, let’s be in touch!
And Friends, to affirm: as you receive these seeds, they are gifts. They are not ‘from’ us, they are from the earth. As you receive these seeds passing through our hands, all we ask is that you receive them trusting that you are worthy, no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done, no matter what you’ll do or won’t do.
Trust that by simply receiving these seeds, you are playing an active role in amplifying the gift.
And trust that we all, for the rest of our lives, will learn to live thank you more and more profoundly.
6.
And what is fear of need but need itself?
To the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
I remember.
The leaves and brambles of ripe raspberries wrapped around and around a beautiful mug and I was mesmerized as a child, the bustle of the craft fair all around us. The mug’s maker, appreciating my appreciation, walked over and said with a Gene Wilder smile, “You have a song to share with me, I sense.” Oh, do I! Without hesitation we sang several songs together, silly rounds and lilting spirituals. Then she tucked that mug into my hands so gently, my eyes confused as well as wide. “You have a gift and now another,” she said.
Her gift, exquisite and unexpected, unearthed in me an understanding that songs, mugs, seeds: such gifts are not ‘mine.’ I may receive and savor them, though the magic lessens if I resist passing it on. Later that summer, I brought that mug full of berries to a friend whose grandmother had just passed on, her heart full of tangled brambles and sweetness.
I only got to give away that mug once, though this story has gifted me a thousand times on its way to you now.
Friends, how might we trust our gifts are enough?
How might we practice receiving graciously, trusting our inherent worth separate from our giving?
What generosity emerges from this trust?
7.
Trusting Needs Beyond Market Economy
In order to find your way, you must lose it. Generously.
Bayo Akomolafe
Market economies demand immediate, direct compensation. This is how, in large part, Fruition has stayed “in business.” So many people, learning about Fruition’s shift to seed sharing rather than seed selling, are expressly concerned about Fruition continuing to exist in the world. As we remember and re-imagine gift culture together, we are curious as well as committed to trusting you, our Beloved Community, to truly receive as well as give, not to Matthew and I but to the whole, amplifying our collective abundance.
Indeed, the last 5000+ years of western market economy and debt culture has deeply instilled in many of us the sense that when we receive we are obligated to acknowledge and return this energy both directly and immediately. Many of us are much more comfortable giving than receiving (Matthew and I are, too) and this inspires us to remember and reimagine what reciprocity might look like as we move forward centering seeds and relationships as gifts we all share and together amplify.
“We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Thank you for trusting, as we shift towards this approach, ever iterating, that we are considering our own needs: We are not pretending we can give everything away indefinitely without having to receive. Indeed, we have great needs as we take on great risk, as we all do. As we seek to uncouple ‘what we need’ from ‘how the market perceives and values us,’ we invite you to receive any and all seeds we share as we together compost the scarcity and transactional patterning that is the water we swim in.
How might we learn new patterns of abundance sharing together?
This much we know:
We all have gifts.
We all have needs.
Friends, dare we trust our needs are also gifts?
Dare we trust our earnest, yearning emptiness to draw each other’s abundance to our cup?
8.
You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Do You Remember?
At the dawn of the pandemic, when Fruition made all our online courses entirely free?
As we drove away from the Boston Flower Show, losing a significant portion of our annual income, knowing the rest of our flower shows would be canceled and our on-farm Garden Store wouldn’t exist either, Matthew and I decided, sensing we all were losing so much, that trying to hold on to anything was entirely futile. Giving away everything we could seemed like a much better way to care for ourselves and each other. Driving home in the pandemic-laced darkness, we decided to make all of Fruition’s online courses entirely free and start hosting weekly gardening Zoom classes, also free.
Not free as in value-less, but free as in Robin Wall Kimmerer:
All flourishing is mutual.
And Fannie Lou Hamer:
None of us are free until all of us are free.
Free because all this wisdom has been passed down from countless plant and humxn generations, shared with us as gifts. Because we all need this wisdom more than ever. Because who are we to gatekeep the generosity of the earth?
And if we only give when we feel we have excess ‘abundance,’ is this truly abundance or a gift?
We did not yet know how to extend this into our seed sharing practice.
We’re finally ready to try.
Thanks for joining us.
9.
On Needing & Thanking Each Other
Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
Friends, we need each other.
And, more than ever:
We need YOU!
As we step into sharing rather than selling seeds, learning to uncouple our needs with our ‘perceived market value,’ we are committed to sharing our needs in clear, honest, creative and widely accessible ways.
And Friends, we need you to both receive seeds as well as support our continued seed sharing in any way(s) feel generative and joyful for you, if and only as you are called.
We will do everything we can to be in service of seeds and sharing. We know we cannot do this alone and we’re honored to share concrete ways you can make this possible, both directly and indirectly, immediately and across time. What do we need?
We Need Relationship
Above all, as we step away from the familiar, fragile facade of market economy’s ‘stability,’ we step into the gift of trusting, reciprocal relationship.
The quality of our relationships is the quality of our lives.
Without question, the most meaningful way you can show up in our lives, Friends, is being in relationship — in community! — with us. Being humxn together, in person, both here on the farm as well as when we travel to your neighborhood, are already gift and will only continue to be. There are many ways to be embodied here on the farm with us:
~ Join our public harvest sharing events throughout the seasons!
~ Attend one or many of our monthly community orchard & garden gatherings. And briefly:
Did you know we’ve planted 100+ fruit and nut trees on the farm?
We have no interest in selling any of this abundance:
There is a deeper hunger we would nourish together.
We are hungry to share the experience of tending these trees
and this land in community, laughing & learning together as we go,
sharing the joys and trials of the seasons,
so when we harvest and share the fruit, it’s that much sweeter.
Join us!
~ Moving forward, we’re so excited to share expansive and specific volunteer opportunities from seed starting in spring to filling seed packets to offering a workshop or experience here on the farm for our wide community. All those transplants you bring home each spring? We’ll fill that tunnel again, entirely gifts for us all, from seeds sown and tended together as a community. For us, by us, for us all. If you’d love to learn more about these opportunities, let us know over here.
We Have Material Needs…
We also anticipate having needs in the form of material goods (mason jars, lumber, printer ink & beyond) that will nourish our individual and collective care. You’ll find our current iteration of those material needs toward the bottom of All Flourishing is Mutual: A Lil Survey for Growing Together. If you would love to gift us something not on the list, just ask! We love that you’re thinking creatively and are open to the exploration.
…And Financial Needs, Too
As we step into gift culture, endeavoring to separate our financial needs from our ‘perceived market value,’ we’ll share our budget, sharing both what we financially need to continue our work as well as what we’ve received to date. Here’s our projected 2025 Budget:
If you’d love to make a financial contribution, thank you so!
If you’d love to explore more nuanced possibilities, share more here and you’ll hear from us soon.
Fruition’s Collaborative Needs & Dreams:
We would love to welcome a diversity of voices to the farm and we look forward to welcoming yours! Would you love to offer a workshop or other healing, skills building or delicious experience here on the farm? From social justice to sushi, seed saving to tomato preservation, let’s explore the possibilities together! We’d love for you to share your love with our wide community we love, share more here and don’t be shy.
Above all, trust us to know what we need, to make specific asks and also that we’re learning to receive as well as give. Trust that we will lean into the growing edges of honing these skills together, growing our comfort with discomfort.
Thank you for helping us practice new ways of exploring and trusting abundance shared.
10.
Growing Gratitude Beyond Market Economy
how to thank Fruition & keep the gift moving
Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.
~ Rumi
How do we learn to give and receive differently, Friends?
And as we all learn how to give and receive seeds rather than sell them, let us affirm: As you receive these seeds, all we ask is that you receive them trusting that you are worthy, no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done, no matter what you’ll do or won’t do.
Trust that by simply receiving these seeds, you are amplifying the gift of life, their 400 million year old legacy.
Trusting Our Gifts, The Gift Returns
with seven haikus
Thank you, Nani Nehring-Bliss, for this exquisite continuous line drawing, gorgeously expressing the non-linear and interconnected nature of gifts, community and Fruition’s joyful, trusting commitment to gifts unfolding, surrounding us all with what we need:
11.
On Privilege
“Where there is a scar, there is a door.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Friends, it takes courage, yes, and deep, on-going commitment to values alignment as we make this leap of transforming Fruition into a gift-sharing practice. Many things make this possible, perhaps none more massive than the privilege Matthew and I hold. Amid intersecting oppressions wounding us all, we are learning to embrace the power we wield to live in service of the greater good, even as (and especially) if it means reducing our own structural power. Here is a powerful invitation to consider privilege from Just 1 Voice:
Growing up in middle class, settler colonial families, Matthew and I are white, able and thin-bodied English-speaking citizens who can pass as neurotypical, cis-gendered and monogamously heterosexual. Though non-traditional, we both enjoyed access to expansive education and experience in the fields of our choice. We occupy the stolen lands of the Haudenosaunee Onondawaga, lands we first rented and twenty acres we now own on the farm. We have chosen to have no children, are fortunate to have no debt and are grateful — as well as privileged — to grow and be gifted the lion’s share of the food we enjoy. Our financial and material needs are simpler than most Americans from our choices, yes, and also systems that have privileged us our entire lives as well as the lives of many of our ancestors.
It’s true: We’ve worked hard.
And Friends, so many people have worked so much harder than us to ‘earn’ so much less.
Without this immense privilege, we would have very different tools and capacity to navigate the complex cultural, social, political, and historical systems of oppression that also grow the soil and seeds we tend.
As we grapple with the privileges surrounding us, allowing us to take the risk of stepping into gift practice more fully, our friend Evan Hoyt reminds us, “the gift of privilege is to take risks and give it away.”
Friends, in our living, (un)learning and loving, we are committed to growing our gift practice, trellised by trust as well as privilege, exploring new approaches to grow and share collective flourishing. We endeavor to compost guilt and other emotions impeding our capacity to truly transform ourselves and systems of oppression around us. Learning to listen to our wide family, humxn and beyond, we are honored to serve future generations of all species with the privilege we have access to as our imaginations grow beyond these crumbling garden walls.
12.
Grief & Gratitude
Even as they grieved, they grew.
Amanda Gorman
Our Fruition Crew
We do nothing in isolation and Friends, Fruition has been a community project for years before being birthed in 2012. Across the years we’ve been honored to welcome people to the team as paid staff and we would not have the privilege of transforming as we are now without their untold oceans of labor and love.
Without question: Our deepest heartbreak in this transformation is shedding the gifts of capacity and care of our beloved Fruition Crew.
To say our hearts are broken is an understatement.
As we move from a team of twelve paid employees to a team of two (Matthew and I alongside the gifts and presence of community, and yes, that includes you!) by October 2024, we feel acutely aware of the privilege Matthew and I have in deciding, as Fruition’s owners, to make such shifts without the collective consent of our team. Our hearts break that exploring gift culture, for Matthew and I, looks like sending the people who brought Fruition to fruition all these years — our friends — back into the market economy to find means and meaning as they ‘make a living.’
I struggle to find adequate words for the grief of this season, letting go of the very hearts and hands that have made this all possible. Thank you to all of the Fruition team for all the care, intention, and meaning you gave in service of our shared work and world.
Dare we trust that letting go of what we love makes room for more of what we love to grow and flourish?
Above all, we cannot do this work alone. We never have and we never will. Through innumerable pivots large and small, in seasons of joy as well as struggle, our team’s immense contributions of insight, camaraderie, labor, sweat and tears will always be remembered and honored, forever sustaining us.
Our Team of Retailers
We are so thankful for the many dozens of garden centers, food coops and community organizations who have shared our beloved seeds with their wide communities across the years! As we explore sharing seeds as gifts, we mourn the fact that we are reducing access to our seeds as we move away from selling them to retailers.
As we move toward sharing seeds as gifts and relational beings, we vision collaborating with these community spaces and beyond to host our merry seed sharing pop-up practice, bringing seeds as well as deeper connection to us all. If you’d love to learn more and explore such possibilities, hop to our quick and simple retailer-specific space to share.
Our Wide Community
For twelve years we’ve shipped seeds far and wide. As Fruition’s seed shipping chapter comes to a close by late September and likely sooner, we grieve alongside everyone who will miss the marvelous magic of seeds arriving in your mailbox. The very real loss of such easy access is profound, Friends. And if seeds and gardens have taught us anything, it may be this: Every ‘end’ is truly a beginning.
Even as we sunset certain aspects of how we’ve shared seeds in the past, we’re welcoming an era of connection, relationship and nourishment beyond anything that could ever be bought and sold. From website to email to social media, our online presence will remain a lantern we light, all in the spirit of cultivating the possibility of embodied relationship together with you and seeds here on the farm and beyond. We look so forward to sharing seeds with you and so much more, Friends! Explore and save the date for our events and know we’re building capacity for you to come visit and even stay a few days or weeks with us to be immersed in the beauty and bounty of land, seeds and abundance shared.
13.
Let’s Grieve, Give Thanks & Welcome A New Era Together
The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Fruition’s unfolding chapters are in the hands and hearts of you, our Beloved Community, join us welcoming this new era together with two gatherings, one online and one here on the farm.
Online Monday, July 1st from 6:30 to 8 pm:
Living the Questions:
Grieving, Growing & Coming to Fruition
Join us for an hour of learning about gift economy and Fruition’s new approach, facilitated by one of our beloved mentors of listening and gift practice. Bring your questions – curiosities and grievings alike – and together we’ll explore what it all means and how we move forward together.
On the farm, late July, details TBD:
We Are The Seeds:
Grieving, Growing & Welcoming a New Fruition Together
Join us for a ceremony honoring Fruition’s past and welcoming our shared future, uncharted and abundant, together. Accompanied by beautiful live music surrounded by burgeoning seeds, we’ll grieve, give thanks and sow seeds both literal and metaphorical, welcoming the new era of Fruition together. Bring a chair to sit in as well as a bag to bring home abundance from the earth: gifts for you and for all generations to come! This will be a memorial as well as birth ceremony, so come prepared to let go and call in welcoming beside us, Friends.
Here’s to the seeds we’ve yet to share & sow together…
…and see you soon!
Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,
and the Many Beings of Fruition
ps
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue
