In 30 Minutes: Join Us Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer!

plus updates for our tree gifting weekend 🌱

Apr 16, 2025

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Is snow still falling in your garden, too?

Is your heart feeling weary and brittle in a world too frozen to feel?

You’re not alone and as daffodils still rise undaunted:

Join us, Friends!

Together let’s savor the words and invitations of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book and essay

The Serviceberry:

Let’s Read, Reflect & Grow the Gift

online Wednesday, April 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm eastern

join us here!

Robin’s words have profoundly influenced Fruition’s shift into growing and gifting rather than continuing to sell and ship seeds. In collaboration with Ganondagan, let’s remember to remember together as we read aloud, reflect on our lives and the wider world, preparing to let our gardens and plant kin grow us in the many moments and seasons to come.

Thanks for joining us on screen or in spirit, Friends!

We’ll share the recording in our next email.

We’re honored to gift 200 bareroot serviceberry trees this Saturday on the farm, plus hundreds of other fruit and nut trees: Imagine the abundance to come!

From Fruition’s Guide to Garden Planning inspired by The Serviceberry:

“There is no question that

all living beings experience some level of scarcity

at various points, and therefore that competition for limited resources, like light or water or soil nitrogen, will occur.

Since competition reduces the carrying capacity for all concerned,

natural selection favors those who can avoid competition.

Oftentimes this is achieved by shifting one’s needs away from whatever is in short supply, as though evolution were suggesting “if there’s not enough of what you want, then want something else.” This specialization to avoid scarcity has led to a dazzling array of biodiversity, each avoiding competition by being different.”

These words of Robin Wall Kimmerer inspire these questions for us:

⭐How might (y)our living and loving be enriched by shifting (y)our attention and effort away from what is in short supply to what is readily available?

⭐ As you plan your garden, what might you grow that will entice yourself and others away from what is in short supply?

And Friends, in the spirit trees, seeds and the endless generosity of plants inspiring us to live and love a little (or a lot) differently:

Let us gift you trees!

Saturday, April 19th at 11 am we’ll share hundreds of trees, transplants and seeds with you, more delicious details below 💛

The Gift of Trees:

Sharing Fruit & Nut Trees (plus Transplants & Seeds)

Saturday, April 19th | 10 am farm tour, 11 to noon gift gathering, noon potluck lunch and 1 to 2 pm planting workshop | at Fruition

Come for all or just some of our Tree Gifting Gathering, Friends!

If you’d love to receive the gift of trees, transplant and seeds, please arrive by 10:45 and plan to stay for our full gifting gathering from 11 to noon, cultivating gift economy together.

Trees for You

& our Collective Great Grandchildren, too:

⭐ serviceberries (native & delectable saskatoon species)

⭐ apples (disease-resistant & delectable)

⭐ elderberries

⭐ northern-hardy persimmon

⭐ Chinese chestnuts

⭐ Red, Sawtooth, Pin & Burr Oak

⭐ Shagbark & Yellowbud / Bitternut Hickory

⭐ Black Walnut

⭐ Chokecherry

Here is Saturday’s Schedule:

join us for a little or as much as you’re able & inspired!

10 am: Farm Tour (taste so many greens springing back to life on the farm!)

and Friends, if you’d love to receive trees, please arrive no later than 10:45 to settle in before our gifting gathering begins and plan to stay til our gifting gathering ends around noon ~

11 to noon: The Gift of Trees (for adults, kids, families, everyone!) (we’ll gift seeds & transplants at this time, too)

noon to 1: potluck lunch! bring your own plates & utensils as well as your (delectable at room temp) potluck offering, if it’s easy: always trust there will be enough for you & for us all, no matter what any of us do or don’t bring

1 to 2 pm: Planting Serviceberries Together (both informative and fun for families & kids of all ages, come ready to get dirty!) Together we’ll plant serviceberries in our community orchard together, going step-by-step to build our collective skills.

Saturday we’ll share some of these freshly roasted chestnuts, luscious gifts from our beloveds at Yellowbud Farm, to nourish and inspire us all to plant more nut trees in our communities!

Bring:

⭐ yourself! and a friend who also dreams of fruitful futures

⭐ a bag or box to bring trees & transplants home

⭐ any seeds, trees or transplants (or anything else!) you’d love to share with us all

⭐ open hands & hearts to receive (especially if you’ve no seeds to share)

⭐ hunger for the world we dream of (let’s sow these seeds together)

⭐ a container to bring home organic fertilizer (crab + lobster meal)

And Friends, we’d love to thank our dear Friends at Ganondagan and fellow community members for making serviceberries abundantly possible to share, for Jeff pruning his elderberries to gift us all, for Margaret and Michael sharing their ample persimmons, chestnuts and chokecherries and for Carly tending and gifting so many nut trees with so much heart. You’ll meet Carly this weekend and bring her all your nut tree questions, Friends!