If you’ve ever gathered with either Living Earth or Paige Emery, you already know that we like to live every day like it’s Earth Day. Living Earth’s first gathering was during Earth Week, on last year’s Earth Day we hiked to the wisdom tree with Paige Emery to chat native plants, play flute, and brew tea with herbs from Paige’s garden, and this year we’re gathering with TreePeople.

Join us this Earth Day in ecological community to chat grassroots activism, accessible environmental stewardship amidst climate crisis and disaster capitalism, love on our native and regionally adaptive plants, and together we’ll stay grounded with the Earth despite the daily onslaught of subjugation and uprooting.

We’ll begin our evening with a ~1 mile ecology walk on the nature trails of TreePeople to cultivate relationship with the land we are on. Both Paige Emery and Noah Klein will introduce some of our plantcestors that we’ll meet along the way and get into a bit of the history of both TreePeople and the Santa Monica Mountains. We’ll land at the top of a scenic lookout where Paige will speak on environmental stewardship, guide a tea ceremony and sound meditation, and offer a tree propagation workshop.

This gathering will end with the sunset, which you’re welcome to watch from TreePeople. It’s one of our absolute favorite views! In an effort to keep this intimate gathering accessible tickets will be sliding scale. If you’re able, we ask you to please donate a bit more to help compensate Paige for sharing her knowledge, practice, and fill that gas tank to get back to Ojai.

Plan to bring:

a blanket to sit on

a water bottle

any snacks you may need (or snacks to share)

a cutting of a tree you’d like to propagate (instructions will be shared soon)

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