Playshops
Fruity 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

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.
- 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 – 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.
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.
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.