We love people, we love plants and we love how gardens gather us together in such hopeful, generous and generative ways! If you’d love to explore collaborating with us, email petra (at) fruitionseeds.com and see you soon:
Saturday February 8 | 1 to 4 pm | Edgerton Ballroom (41 Backus Street) in Rochester NY
Seed Packing for the Rochester Seed Swap & Share
Friends! Come pack seeds for your friends and for us all! Together we’ll be filling thousands of seed packets to share at the Rochester Seed Swap on March 22nd and we’ll send everyone home with a few seeds, too. At 3 join us for an onion and shallot planting workshop; bring your own containers and potting mix to bring home some freshly sown seeds of your own. Curious if your containers are adequate? Bring what you have so we can talk pros and cons of them all! If you’re able to bring more containers and potting mix than you need, there will be plenty to share with us all, so thanks for bringing what you’re joyfully able 💛
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday, Feb 12 | Huntington, VT
The Gift of Seeds
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Exact time & place TBD.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Thursday, Feb 13 | 5:30 to 8:30 pm | UU Church of Burlington, VT
The Gift of Seeds
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday February 15 | Burlington, VT
Seeds, Gifts & the Hard Work of Receiving: 2 Workshops at the NOFA-VT Organic Farm & Gardening Conference at UVM
Join Petra for two sessions with our dear friends Adam Wilson (Sand River Community Farm) and Sam Bliss (Food Not Bombs Burlington) to experience and explore the gifts that emerge when we honor the world as a gift. Our first session, ‘Agricultural Gift Economics: Could we farm without having to sell our wares?’ centers conversation and our second session, ‘Receiving is Hard Work: A Gift of Seeds, Soup, and Bread’ is an embodied practice we’ll share together.
Sunday February 16 | Burlington, VT
Sowing & Saving the Seeds of Resilience: A Seed Saving Intensive at NOFA-VT Organic Farm & Gardening Conference at UVM
Join us from 8:30 to 3 pm and stay tuned for more details, Friends. If you’re interested in growing your seed skills and connecting with fellow seed folks, join us! Expect an abundance of learning and connection for both commercial and non-commercial seed people alike. Register for this conference here.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday, February 26 | 6:30 to 7:30 | Online
The Serviceberry: Let’s Read, Reflect & Amplify the Gift
In collaboration with Ganondagan, let’s lean into the wisdom of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book The Serviceberry. Together we’ll read passages as well as reflect on our lives in the wider world, preparing to let our gardens and plant kin grow us more than we grow them. Stay tuned for the link and more details!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Thursday, March 6 | 5:30 to 7:30 | Northampton, MA
Sharing the Gift of Seeds at the Forbes Library
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Stay tuned, registration will soon open.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday, March 9 | 1 – 4 | West Barnstable, MA
Sharing the Gift of Seeds with Resilient Roots
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
This event has sold out & hope to share seeds with you soon, nonetheless 💛
Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Tuesday, March 11 | Orange County CCE, NY
3 Events: The Gift of Seeds + Seeding Resilient Farms & Gardens (the first is for everyone; the second for small & beginning farmers)
The Gift of Seeds: Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Seeding Resilience for Gardeners (10 am to noon) & Small Farmers(2 to 4 pm) : Learn to recognize common diseases of tomatoes and cucumbers as well as seed varieties that resist these diseases! We’ll also explore annual flowers in your vegetable garden to feed “good bugs,” sharing seeds of many flowers and vegetables your own garden, farm and community.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday, March 12 | Binghamton, NY
2 Events: The Gift of Seeds + Seeding Resilient Farms & Gardens (the first is for everyone; the second for small & beginning farmers) Exact time and place TBD, stay tuned!
The Gift of Seeds: Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Seeding Resilient Farms & Gardens: Learn to recognize common diseases of tomatoes and cucumbers as well as seed varieties that resist these diseases! We’ll also explore annual flowers in your vegetable garden to feed “good bugs,” sharing seeds of many flowers and vegetables your own garden, farm and community.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Thursday, March 13 | 6 – 8 pm | Suarez Family Brewery in Hudson, NY
Sharing the Gift of Seeds
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Stay tuned, time TBD.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday, March 16 | Sawmill Herb Farm in Montague, MA
Sharing the Gift of Seeds
Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two. Stay tuned, time TBD.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Wednesday, March 19 | 5 – 7 pm | South Wedge Mission, Rochester, NY
Seed Packing Potluck!
Friends! Come pack seeds for your friends and for us all! Together we’ll be filling thousands of seed packets to share at the Rochester Seed Swap on March 22nd and we’ll send everyone home with a few seeds too, especially onions and shallots just in time to sow them. For the potluck, trust there will be plenty of food whether you bring anything or not, so bring a labeled dish to pass as brings ease and joy along with your own eating vessels and utensils.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, March 22 | 9 – 4 | Rochester, NY
Seed Gifting, Seed Swap & Seed Saving Workshop at the Urban Agriculture Conference!
Yes! We’ll be gifting seeds & so much more, stay tuned for more details ~
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Sunday, March 23 | UU Amherst Church in Buffalo, NY
2 Events: Seeding the Future (Petra leads service from 10:30 to 11:30) with The Gift of Seeds (community practice from 1:30 to 4:30 pm)
Seeding the Future: What if gardens grow us more than we grow them? How does gift economy already infuse our lives? How can we cultivate gift culture more joyfully as well as courageously? Join life-long UU, gardener and seed grower, Petra Page-Mann of Fruition Seeds, exploring how adaptive genetics as well as economics can nourish the hunger we all feel much deeper than calories.
The Gift of Seeds: Let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come. Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Monday, March 24 | Geneva, NY
2 Events: The Gift of Seeds + Seeding Resilient Farms & Gardens (the first is for everyone; the second for small & beginning farmers) Exact time TBD, stay tuned!
The Gift of Seeds: Together, let’s practice receiving hundreds of varieties of regionally adapted seeds as gifts, cultivating gift culture as well as community, nourishing all generations to come! Together we’re going to laugh, play, send each other home with many regionally adapted seeds from Fruition as we sing and perhaps even shed a tear or two.
Seeding Resilient Farms & Gardens: Learn to recognize common diseases of tomatoes and cucumbers as well as seed varieties that resist these diseases! We’ll also explore annual flowers in your vegetable garden to feed “good bugs,” sharing seeds of many flowers and vegetables your own garden, farm and community.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, April 12 | at Fruition Seeds
Save the date: The Gift of Seeds & Community Seed Starting & Garden Tool Swap
Stay tuned for more details ~
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Every Saturday at 10 am April 12 to May 24 at Fruition
Seeding the Future: Sharing the Abundance of Seeds
Save the date & stay tuned for more details: Come ready to receive so many seeds, for yourself and for your community! Rather than our free flow open hours of the past, join us right at 10 to share a two-hour experience of the farm and seeds as we cultivate gift economy together.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Every Saturday at 2 pm April 12 to May 24 at Fruition
Let’s Sow Seeds Together: Cultivating Abundance for All!
Save the date & stay tuned for more details: Come with questions and curiosity, leave with dirt under your nails and a tray of freshly sown seeds!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Every Sunday at 10 am in April 13 to May 25 at Fruition
We Are the Seeds: Giving, Receiving & Practicing the World We Dream Of
Save the date & stay tuned for more details: Come ready to receive so many seeds, for yourself and for your community! Rather than our free flow open hours of the past, join us right at 10 to experience the farm and seeds as we cultivate gift economy together. We’ll also sow seeds for you to bring home as well as for others to receive here on the farm. Come with questions and curiosity, leave with dirt under your nails and a tray of freshly sown seeds!
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, April 19 | 10 – 2 | at Fruition Seeds
The Serviceberry & Sweetgrass: Tree Gifting (in collaboration with Ganondagan)
Save the date & stay tuned for more details: Come ready to receive so seeds as well as sweetgrass and bareroot Serviceberry trees, both native and delectable Saskatoon cultivars! Together we’ll plant serviceberry & sweetgrass here on the farm and savor readings from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass as well as The Serviceberry.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, April 19 | 10 – 2 | Ganondagan in Victor, NY
Plant a Serviceberry Orchard at Ganondagan!
Save the date & stay tuned for more details: Let’s plant both native and delectable Saskatoon cultivars at Ganondagan all species and generations to come! We’ll also savor readings from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass as well as The Serviceberry together.
Friends! Join us at the Iroquois White Corn Project Farmhouse, 7191 County Road 41 in Victor, rather than the Cultural Center up the hill.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
Saturday, August 9 | 10 – 2 | Ganondagan in Victor, NY
Serviceberry Eating, Weeding & Reading!
Together we’ll savor luscious serviceberry + Iroquois white corn muffins as we tend Ganondagan’s serviceberry orchard. We’ll also savor readings from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass as well as The Serviceberry.
Friends! Join us at the Iroquois White Corn Project Farmhouse, 7191 County Road 41 in Victor, rather than the Cultural Center up the hill.
Gift (Free) Event! Wondering how to thank us & sustain this work and joy alongside us? Take a peek here.
We Made You a Map!
There are so many marvelous ways to enjoy our hills, valleys, lakes & glens, so we’ve made you a printable map of our favorite places surrounding the Fruition Seeds farm: