Past Playshops
Our Changing Earth: November 2, 2024
- Unsure how to process the grief of witnessing climate change and disaster here in New Mexico and beyond?
- Longing for a space of rest, care, and welcome that can support you to be with that grief?
- Do you long to be able to cry and laugh in the same breath and be supported and witnessed with kindness and love?
- Curious about how writing and community art building can transform our relationship to our grief and the changing world around us?
Join land tender and certified arborist Corva Rose; music and rest sharer maria mcCullough; and writer and grief worker mai cortez đoán for this gentle, interactive playshop.
This playshop will offer spaciousness and welcome to turn inward and be with climate grief. Over the course of four hours, we will weave our hearts and grief through reflection, personal writing time, gentle movement, and the collective building of a fence mosaic. Together, we will connect to the inner + outer resilience that can emerge when we share and hold our grief in community through creative pathways.
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.
maria mcCullough
maria mcCullough (they/she) loves to share and explore with beings through music, gentle movement, laughter, love and rest. maria is in a practice and study of sharing music to those passing through the death portal. maria is grateful to be living on Southern Tiwa Land and to be in a relationship-building journey with the land, water and beings here.
mai cortez ðoán
mai cortez ðoán (she/her) is a poet, writer, and grief worker. She is the author of the poetry book, water/tongue. mai writes and teaches writing as a creative and contemplative practice to deepen self-connection and affirm our inherent belonging to ourselves, our stories, and the earth. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her dog, Story.
What We Will Cover
- Navigating and normalizing climate grief
- Using personal writing to be with climate grief
- Natural fence building & privacy screening techniques
- Time for Q+A with all three teachers!
A couple of notes:
– While this space welcomes feelings and invites you to show up as you are, we are not therapists and this is not a group therapy space. We ask that you come ready to self-regulate, and to take care of yourself and others as you participate in this space.
– In this playshop, we will facilitate space for self-reflection, personal writing, and collaborative art-building. All participation is optional and we will offer alternatives throughout the day so that you may participate at your own comfort level.
The Playshop will be held at the Filling Station in the South Valley (address will be included in your confirmation email) on the unceded ancestral lands of the Pueblo of Isleta and Sandia in now-called Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hydro-Fearless: July 14, 2024
- A bit baffled by the seeming complexity of how to properly water your baby, juvenile, established, and elder trees in our changing high desert climate?
- Ready to learn and see some actual down to earth methods, including rain water, greywater, and irrigation?
- Curious about the inner + outer resilience that can happen when we invite poetry, art, and movement into the mix?
Join land tender and certified arborist Corva Rose; poet and inner water tender Dvorah Simon; and habitat tender and licensed irrigation contractor Rachel Chandler for this interactive playshop We’ll be weaving together irrigation instruction, greywater infiltration, rainwater collection, inner water exploration, art, movement, community, and heart-centered reflection.
As we sit in the shade in the midpoint of summer, these 2 ½ early-morning cool hours will be a grounding and uplifting gift not only for ourselves, but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
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.
Dvorah Simon
Dvorah Simon (she/her) is a psychologist, poet, and Tree School devotee. She assisted with facilitation of the Tree School Mentorship in 2023 with a focus on the inner garden as expressed in language and poetry. She approaches poetry as the natural speech of the heart, and as such, something accessible to all.
Rachel Chandler
What We Will Cover
- Basic watering needs for trees of all ages: how often, how deep, how wide, how much water, how much mulch.
- How to use rainwater and greywater in the landscape.
- Irrigation options for trees.
- Poetry and art as an exploration of our inner waters.
- Time for Q+A with all three teachers!
The Playshop will be held at Corva’s teaching garden in the Uptown area (address will be included in your confirmation email) on the unceded ancestral lands of the Pueblo of Isleta and Sandia in now-called Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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 donated to The Hook Up – fabulous Albuquerque-based community collective providing abolitionist harm reduction. They focus on hooking up our community with supplies, resources, connection, de-stigmatization, and love. This is deeply in concert with the Tree School values of inter-dependence and belonging, and we are so happy to be partnering with them!
Sharpen the Blade: February 10, 2024
Fruity Goats: January 27, 2024
Bustle in your Hedgerow: November 5, 2023
Made in the Shade: July 8, 2023
Fruity Goats: February 18, 2023
We started 2023
with two super fun and relaxed pruning playshops:
Fig Trees: We’ll work on a 50+ year old fig tree together, learning about buds, dormancy, creation of new wood, winter protection, and more. And, you can go home with cuttings woo hoo!
For tree care-givers, professionals, beginners, anyone.
- By donation at the class (pay what you can, no questions asked)
- Saturday, Jan 14
- 10:30am – 12:30pm
- Uptown location
Espalier Fruit Trees: We’ll work on a row of old espalier (trained horizontally) fruit trees, learning about training new branches, bud formation, sun protection, and more.
- For tree care-givers, professionals, beginners, anyone.
- Free
- Friday, Jan 20
- 9am – 1pm
- North Valley home orchard
Hallowed Ground: Oct 29, 2022
Hallowed Ground:
to tend our inner, home, and collective gardens
as we move into winter.
A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop to tend our inner, home, and collective gardens
as we move into winter.
- Harvesting + appreciating what we learned/gleaned from our summer gardening experience, and planting ‘seeds’ for next year.
- Tending the orchard at Chispas Farm – what to do in fall/winter…and we’ll actually DO it and get our hands dirty!
- Integrating our Inner + Outer gardens with song, movement, and rest, so that we are ready for winter.
Summer Breeze: May 28 + June 18, 2022
A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop
to learn climate adaptive methods
and how to mix them with JOY.
A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop to learn
climate adaptive methods
and how to mix them with JOY.
Corva will be teaching within the context of the Tree School Climate Adaptation Method
that is followed in her Tree School Mentorship.
Looking for an inspirational way to engage with your garden in the heat of summer
and prepare yourself and your plants for the deepening of the climate crisis
Whew, that sounds exhausting!
You’re right, it will be…
…unless we conjoin our climate adaptive practices with JOY!
Joy?
In the midst of all of THIS??
Yesss beloved.
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose for this interactive playshop, where we’ll weave together gardening instruction, habitat creation, and heart-centered reflection.
As we move into summer, however centered or overwhelmed we may feel,
these 2.5 hours will be a grounding and empowering gift not only for ourselves,
but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
Our World is Our Orchard: Feb 5 + 19, 2022
A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop to learn how to prune our inner and outer fruit trees as we transition from winter to spring.
Saturday, February 5 SOLD OUT!
10am – 1pm
Plants of the Southwest
6680 4th St. NW, Abq, NM
- At a nursery
- Wheelchair accessible (power chair)
- Focussing on trees we’ve pruned before
- Bonus: nursery!
- North Valley
- Wheelchair access indoor bathroom
Saturday, February 19 SOLD OUT!
10am – 1pm
Chispas Farm
229 Saavedra Rd. SW, Abq, NM
- On a farm
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Our first time pruning these trees
- Bonus: goats & sheep & chickens!
- South Valley
- Super cool outhouse
Looking for an inspirational way to enjoy the last bits of winter
and prepare yourself and your fruit trees for spring?
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose for this interactive playshop,
where we’ll weave together pruning instruction,
habitat creation, and heart-centered reflection.
As we enter the gateway to spring, however centered or scattered we may feel,
these three hours will be a grounding and empowering gift not only for ourselves,
but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
Looking for an inspirational way to enjoy the last bits of winter
and prepare yourself and your fruit trees for spring?
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose for this interactive playshop, where we’ll weave together pruning instruction, habitat creation, and heart-centered reflection.
As we enter the gateway to spring, however centered or scattered we may feel, these three hours will be a grounding and empowering gift not only for ourselves, but for the world we experience, affect,
and ultimately create.
Tiered/equity/community pricing:
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.
For low income folks, especially BIPOC, queer/trans folks, those with chronic conditions, and/or single parents.
5 Spots each workshop.
Supportive rate helps cover you, and someone else in need, in the spirit of resource redistribution, reparations, and community care.
5 Spots each workshop.
Upcoming Classes…stay tuned!
new classes (plus other cool stuff too!)
to get hot-off-the-press alerts
for new classes
(plus other cool stuff too!)
Hallowed Ground: Oct 30, 2021
Hallowed Ground:
Oct 30, 2021
A creative, hands-on, outdoor playshop
to tend our inner, home, and collective gardens
as we move into winter.
Saturday, October 30
10am – 1pm
Plants of the Southwest
6680 4th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
Looking for an inspirational way to close up summer
and prepare yourself and your garden for winter?
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose for this interactive playshop,
where we’ll weave together gardening and pruning instruction,
habitat creation, and heart-centered reflection.
As we stand at the threshold of winter, however stable or unstable our footing may feel,
these three hours will be a grounding and energizing gift not only for ourselves,
but for the world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
Looking for an inspirational way
to close up summer and prepare yourself and your garden for winter?
Join gardener and certified arborist Corva Rose for this interactive
playshop, where we’ll weave
together gardening and pruning instruction, habitat creation,
and heart-centered reflection.
As we stand at the threshold
of winter, however stable or
unstable our footing may feel,
these three hours will be a
grounding and energizing gift
not only for ourselves,but for the
world we experience, affect, and ultimately create.
10% of all proceeds from workshop donated to Tewa Women United
There is an opportunity at checkout to add a donation
if you wish for the Tree School Scholarship Fund.
See you on the 30th!
This playshop sold out, and we donated 10% of our income from this playshop
to Tewa Women United.
*Thanks to friend and colleague averykalapa.com for guidance around structure/equity.