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  • 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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    August 20 2022 Work Party

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    November 28 2024 Work Party

    November 28, 2025
  • April 12 2025 Work Party

    April 13, 2025 /

    It is always good to be with you.

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    first baby trees

    December 4, 2021

    October 14 2023 Work Party

    October 28, 2023

    November 18 2023 Work Party

    November 22, 2023
  • March 15 2025 Work Party

    March 16, 2025 /

    The best problem to have is not enough root slayers.

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    May 2 2026 Work Party

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    first baby trees

    December 4, 2021
  • January 20 2025 Work Party

    January 21, 2025 /

    Love in action.

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    December 17 2022 Work Party

    December 18, 2022
  • December 29 2024 Walk

    December 30, 2024 /

    Restful solitude, nourishing until the days wear into claustrophobic sameness. Glass door. Rain. Tea. Chair. Keyboard. Caretaking. Glass door. Rain. Thoughts pile up, crowd worn tracks, dress themselves up for disturbing nighttime scenes. I sleep for a day, stumble into an anatomy of melancholy, wonder if the tech billionaires have found a way into my busy brain. Still rain. Still genocide, still oligarchy, still authoritarianism rising, still greed and profit and planetary destruction, still not enough affordable housing, still a sixth mass extinction, still all the suffering I cannot control. I don’t want to move, but I do. I go outside, walk through the seasonal stream, across the swampy field.…

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    May 16 2026 Work Party

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    May 6, 2023 Work Party

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    July 6 2024 Work Party

    July 7, 2024
  • December 14 2024 Work Party

    December 15, 2024 /

    The last work party of 2024: We excavated trash, dug Himalayan blackberry roots, pulled ivy, rooted up herb Robert and foxglove. We tucked in baby conifers with blankets of mulch stitched in rings, the Western red cedars in particular need of this tender care under climate change. We felt the wind rush around us, watched a murmuration twist and turn above us. We found a tiny Garry oak pushing out of the ground from an acorn planted on the winter solstice one year ago, put a kite in the air for a fleeting moment, brought a whole vibe. We made space, for the trees and for each other. We arrived…

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    April 12 2023 Work Party

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    November 9 2024 Work Party

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    April 4 2026 Work Party

    April 4, 2026
  • November 29 2024 Work Party

    November 30, 2024 /

    This is what it looks like to be five.

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    August 17 2024 Work Party

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  • November 9 2024 Work Party

    November 10, 2024 /

    U.S. Navy Reserve members from all over join us. The large branch of a horse chestnut tree comes down, taking two folding handsaws with it. Baby conifers uncovered, trash exhumed. So many gifts, so much grace.

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    May 10 2025 Work Party

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    June 3 2023 Work Party

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    August 13 2022 Work Party

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  • October 12 2024 Work Party

    October 13, 2024 /

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    December 29 2024 Walk

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    March 28 2026 Work Party

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  • October 5 2024 Work Party

    October 6, 2024 /

    Small and mighty.

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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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