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  • February 28 2026 Work Party

    February 28, 2026 /

    Thank you for joining me in making the world the way I want it to be. That we create this magic for three hours at a time is everything.

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    June 18 2022 Work Party

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    February 24 2024 Work Party

    February 25, 2024

    May 10 2025 Work Party

    May 11, 2025
  • January 19 2025 Work Party

    January 19, 2026 /

    My liberation is inextricably tied to yours, and nature awaits the revolution, too. I’m so grateful that Martin Luther King, Jr brought us together for a day to build the more beautiful world we need. Let’s keep going. Read Martin Luther King, Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963).Learn more about King and beloved community.Nature needs liberation as much as we do.

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    March 6 2022 Work Party

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    August 24 2024 Work Party

    August 28, 2024

    March 8 2025 Work Party

    March 9, 2025
  • January 3 2026 Work Party

    January 4, 2026 /

    Together we lay down our tools and bore witness to bald eagles locked in intimate embrace in the winter blue sky.

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    November 9 2024 Work Party

    November 10, 2024

    February 6 2022 Work Party

    February 7, 2022

    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023
  • December 20 2025 Work Party

    December 20, 2025 /

    Last work party of 2025. A fern freed from encroaching creeping buttercup, a willow from the thorny embrace of Himalayan blackberry canes. We find stories in a shard of glass, the metal cap of a fence post, a rusted hatchet. A snake rests in a gentle hand. We made a difference.

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    March 9 2024 Work Party

    March 9, 2024

    first baby trees

    December 4, 2021

    August 10 2024 Work Party

    August 11, 2024
  • December 13 2025 Work Party

    December 14, 2025 /

    Hide and seek with emerging Himalayan blackberry, digging a carpet of creeping buttercup, mulch newly blanketing a transect of earth where cut canes marked the spot of our latest root ball excavation. We use the first aid kit for the first time on a conifer, gently wrapping its snapped young trunk with a splint, an act of tender absurdity given the severity of the injury, but equally one of stubborn hope. Every being deserves care. We will not give up on this tree, this community, this land. The creek rushes by with news of the atmospheric river just passed. Hawks cry. I feel myself.

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    October 8 2021 Work Party

    October 16, 2021

    August 6 2022 Work Party

    August 7, 2022

    April 23 2023 Work Party Earth Day

    May 7, 2023
  • November 28 2024 Work Party

    November 28, 2025 /

    This is what it looks like to be six.

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    December 11 2021 Work Party

    December 12, 2021

    November 9 2024 Work Party

    November 10, 2024

    April 8 2023 Work Party

    April 12, 2023
  • June 7 2025 Work Party

    June 8, 2025 /

    Boisterous clipping and digging of canes, pulling up a carpet of ivy, young people have brought their older humans along. We add our blackberry and ivy to the raft, ferry more to the field for pick up, get stung by nettles five times. A black-tailed deer grazes across the way. Hard rain starts to fall, scattering some of us, the rest of us carry on. The underground infrastructure of a very old Himalayan blackberry is exhumed, some concrete detritus moved. We leave with so much distance travelled in just three hours.

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    December 7 2024 Work Party

    December 8, 2024

    July 25 2022 Work Party

    July 26, 2022

    Watering Our Baby

    July 28, 2022
  • May 10 2025 Work Party

    May 11, 2025 /

    We continued clearing a new patch of Himalayan blackberry, started on a patch of knotweed, the stalks of these like giants. Rescued a fern, excavated more trash, were stung by nettles. Fringe cup and large-leaved avens watched from along the trail.

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    January 22 2022 Work Party

    January 25, 2022

    December 13 2025 Work Party

    December 14, 2025

    November 23 2024 Work Party

    November 24, 2024
  • May 3 2025 Work Party

    May 4, 2025 /

    It feels good to see the tender bright green tufts of new growth on our baby conifers, to see you remove the blackberry regrowth from among them, to watch a black-tailed deer cautiously watch us, to be here with you. This is hope.

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    June 3 2023 Work Party

    June 11, 2023

    December 13 2025 Work Party

    December 14, 2025

    March 9 2024 Work Party

    March 9, 2024
  • April 12 2025 Work Party

    April 13, 2025 /

    It is always good to be with you.

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    November 13 2022 Work Party

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"We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations."
― Pope John Paul II

“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

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