Playshops
Corva Rose
Corva Rose (she/they) is a certified arborist, meditation instructor, Permaculture practitioner, and long-time collector of fancy sticks that become fashion fences. Corva is devoted to weaving compassion and equity into gardening culture, habitat creation, and urban forestry. Cultivating joy, silliness, and presence in the midst of this traumatic climate threshold is something that makes Corva’s heart smile.
Maria McCullough
Maria (she/they) loves to share and explore with others through music, movement, laughter, love and rest, and will bring these gifts to Fruity Goats. Maria is grateful to be living on Southern Tiwa Land and to be in a practice of a relationship-building journey with the land, water and beings here.
Your Teachers
Corva Rose
Corva Rose (she/they) is a certified arborist, meditation instructor, Permaculture practitioner, and long-time collector of fancy sticks that become fashion fences. Corva is devoted to weaving compassion and equity into gardening culture, habitat creation, and urban forestry. Cultivating joy, silliness, and presence in the midst of this traumatic climate threshold is something that makes Corva’s heart smile.
Tanesia Hale-Jones
Tainesia (she/her) is an artist, poet, yoga instructor, Montessori adolescent guide and administrator working at the intersection of education and social Justice. She is inspired by the work of bell hooks, endless cups of hot tea, nature walks, and the beauty found in the ordinary everyday.
Curious about which tools are optimal for fruit tree pruning, and how best to take care of them? Need some fresh inspiration to get you re-enthused about fruit tree care?
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose and yoga instructor and gardener Tanesia Hale-Jones for this interactive playshop, where we’ll weave together tool + tree knowledge, yoga + body care, community, and heart-centered reflection.
As we stand near the end of winter, these three hours will be a grounding and uplifting gift not only for ourselves, but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
What We Will Cover
- Basic pruning of fruit trees: how to decide where and when to make what types of pruning cuts, and what outcomes you’re likely to achieve.
- Insights for pruning in the high desert, where we’re blessed with strong sun, wind, heat, and alkaline soil.
- Exploration of pruning tools, including how to clean and sharpen them and replace blades when necessary.
- Caring for our most important tool: Yoga and body care for gardening/pruning.
- Time for Q+A with both teachers!
For 2024, our Playshops will be donation-based – a donation jar will be at the event, and you can contribute what you are able.
Our wish is that this donation-based 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. If you can’t pay anything at this time, you are equally welcome here! No one is keeping track of who does/doesn’t contribute.
We are operating in the spirit of trust and openness.
All funds collected will be divided between the teachers.
25 12 Spots Available
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.
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Join our community of vibrant gardeners and inquisitive cultivators DIGGING in to create a resilient world garden in the here and now. As a welcome and thank you for your trust, you’ll get our Pruning Guide, called Slowing Down to Connect.