Playshops

Fruity Goats ~

A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop exploring the orchestrated symbiosis between fruit tree pruning, tool care, and soil remediation…with GOATS!

Saturday, February 18, 2023
9am – 1pm
Plants of the Southwest Nursery
6680 4th St. NW, ABQ 87107
On the unceded ancestral lands of the Pueblo of Isleta and Sandia in so-called Albuquerque, New Mexico

Fruity Goats

Looking for a juicy way to emerge from winter and prepare yourself and your fruit trees for spring?

Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose and guest teacher and goatherd gardener Tomlyn Foran for this interactive playshop, where we’ll weave together gardening and pruning instruction, goat-based soil remediation, and heart-centered reflection.

As we enter the gateway to spring, these four hours will be a grounding and empowering gift not only for ourselves, but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.

We will cover:
  • Tool Care as a Spiritual Practice – bring your gloves/clippers/saw if you have them (no worries if you don’t; there will be a sheet of recommended tools).
  • Learn how fruit trees grow and respond to cuts – this will show us how to make decisions and cuts to get the results we’re looking for.
  • The importance of soil care, and the role goats can have in soil remediation.
  • How to cultivate (and re-cultivate) joy in our gardening practice!

Teachers:

Corva Rose

Corva Rose – Main Teacher

Tomlyn Foran – Guest Teacher

Tomlyn Foran

Tomlyn has many years of experience working with plants at farms, food forests, Plants of the Southwest, Divine Earth, and their own gardening business. Drawing on their experience shepherding, goat packing, and working on dairy farms they are now integrating their goats into gardening with their new business Cloven Hoof Goat Gardening. They are passionate about cultivating interspecies collaborations to remediate disturbed ecologies.

Click to Meet Our Guest Teacher
Note: PSW has a Wheelchair accessible indoor bathroom, and the access from parking lot and nursery paths are mulchy but relatively compressed, and accessible with a power chair.

Tiered / equity / community pricing:

Sliding scale allows you to pick your payment amount in the spirit of equity, accessibility, generosity, and redistribution, while simultaneously inviting your conscious investment in a gardening culture that is working to create habitat infused with compassion, and supports this small queer business to operate sustainably.

If you can pay more, you’ll help cover the cost for someone else who needs to pay less.

BIPOC community

$10

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1 Spot Remaining

Actual price to cover you.

$30

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3 Spots Remaining

Supportive rate helps cover you, and someone else in need, in the spirit of resource redistribution, reparations, and community care.

$50

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We will donate 10% of our income from this playshop to Tewa Women United.

The next Playshop will be in February, 2023

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As a welcome and thank you for your trust, you’ll get our Pruning Guide,
called Slowing Down to Connect.

Corva's workshops, or "playshops," are inclusive and welcoming. She helps us draw our own connections between the gardens of the heart, the literal garden, and the world. As a teacher, she provides that rare mix of the spiritual/philosophical, and literal down to earth knowledge. I learned how to prune a flower bed. I learned how to let go of things in my heart, another kind of pruning. Wisdom emerges from the combined process, yet is playful and unforced. I suspect no two of us at this event had the same journey, yet all came away nourished, challenged, and refreshed.
~ Dvorah Simon
Thank you for a lovely class on Saturday. I thought the pace and content were just right. I am still meditating on what I learned, and will continue to do so for some time. ~ Christal
~ Christal
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