Fruition Seeds

Have you tried pulling rather than snapping your garlic scapes, Friends?

Its so satisfying and so not easy, so don’t be daunted if you aren’t immediately successful 🌿

Here’s to all the ways gardens grow us more than we grow them ☀️

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

Petra & the Many Possibilities of Fruition

I remember ✨

When I was young 🌱

My father and I were harvesting in our garden, friends coming soon for supper 🧺

I asked him which head of lettuce to harvest 🥬

He pointed to the largest, shiniest, most resplendent lettuce in our entire garden and I asked quizzically, ‘but Dad, that’s the best one…?’

‘Exactly,’ he said ✨

Let’s get back to that 🕊️

And Friends:

I’ll always be a lil embarrassed:

Who was I hoarding that lettuce for?

Why didn’t I want to share the most gorgeous head of lettuce in our garden with beloved friends?

Dad, I’ll always be thankful that you were there to remind me, as I so often forget, to this day:

We share the best of what we have with everyone we can 🍅

We share the best of what we have with everyone we can 🌈

We share the best of what we have with everyone we can ♥️

And Friends, we’ll be sharing our seeds, transplants, stories and songs for all the seasons yet that we have breath...
..and we’re sharing them in vast, ebullient abundance now through May 23rd, don’t be shy!

Hundreds of gorgeous tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillo plants...
..and our regionally adapted seeds in gorgeous packets...
...as well as in large bags, wide open for you to receive abundant seeds to gift your community through seed libraries, community gardens, schools and other ways we practice sharing in community 🫘

Come early & stay late, think community ceremonial theater, not drop in seed swap:

🍆 Thurs, May 14 in Buffalo from 6 to 8 at 5 Loaves Farm

🥦 Friday, May 15 in Rochester 6:30 to 7:30 at the Public Market (not a Gift of Seed, drop in anytime!)

🌶️ Saturday, May 16 at Fruition from 1 to 3, wildflower & bird hike beyond the farm and potluck to follow

🥒 Tuesday, May 19 in Canandaigua from 6 to 8 at Eberhardt Center

🥕 Sat, May 23 in Rochester from noon to 3 at Greener Visions (not a Gift of Seed, drop in anytime!)

And stay tune for all manner of deliciousness on the farm all summer, Friends 🌽

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

Petra & the Many Possibilities of Fruition

Friends!

Join us!

Sharing the gifts of seeds, transplants, food, community...
..in ways that may make more sharing possible for generations to come ✨

We do this til we feed & free us 🌿

Join us:

🎉 Sat May 9 🎉

10 am to 3 pm

bring any seedlings you’d love to share as well as seedling (not potting) mix, labels and 3-4”containers: let’s grow a more abundant world together 🪴

10 to noon: potting up tomato, pepper, eggplant & tomatillo transplants together 🍅

noon: potluck!

1 to 3 pm: Gift of Seeds & Transplants (join for the entire time: think community ceremonial theater, not seed swap!) 🧡

And Friends:

There are no rules except there are no rules...
..beyond being respectful of & amplifying life for all...
..and everyone will be invited to receive seeds transplants, even if you don’t have any to share...
..and we do this together 🌈

Bring, as brings ease and joy:

~ a friend 🌻
~ a bag to bring home an abundance of seeds 🥕
~ seedling (not potting) mix and 3-4” pots for transplanting tomatoes 🍅
~ a dairy-free potluck lunch offering 🥨
~ a box for transplants 🌿
~ hunger to grow more fruitful futures for all generations to come 💛
~ a bag to bring Turkish Rocket home! (think broccoli raab meets radicchio 🥬

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

Petra & the Many Possibilities of Fruition

“…but surely someone needs this more than me?”

One of my favorite moments of Fruition’s first annual bulk seed gifting gathering, sharing seeds with seed libraries and community gardens, schools & so many other flavors of mutual aid, was the moment when someone whispered in my ear:

“Are you afraid people will take more than they need?”

“Ohhhhh, listen!” I said. “Our beloved friend and mentor Adam Wilson taught us to listen for a phrase people often say, when offered a gift — something not needing to earned, bought, bartered or otherwise controlled:

“…but surely someone needs this more than me?”

And sure enough, he reported a lil more than an hour later that he needed more than two hands to count how many times he had heard gracious paraphrases spoken aloud around those long, seed-laden tables 🌿

And Friends, we’ve heard it innumerable times across countless circumstances and this is among the reasons why we haven’t given up on our species yet:

“…but surely someone needs this more than me?”

The words of a heart keeping other hearts in mind. A life whose life is intertwined with all life. A person choosing connection and care often over perhaps even their own comfort:

“…but surely someone needs this more than me?”

Can you imagine hearing these words walking down a grocery store aisle? Especially when something is on sale?

These words are deeper in our bones than the need for dollars:

“…but surely someone needs this more than me?”

When will you hear these words next? How will your actions inspire them in little ways and large?

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

Petra & the Many Possibilities of Fruition 🌱

ps

We’re gifting seeds and transplants both on the farm & beyond throughout May, take a peek at our gatherings, hop on our email for personal invitations and see(d) you soon 🎉

Thank you, Friends 💛

To everyone who joined us in body as well as spirit ✨

Last week, over 70 people gathered

to receive the gift of seeds

to gift seed libraries, community gardens, schools and mutual aid networks across the northeast and beyond 🌱

For three days we fed each other at long tables Saturday those long tables hosted a Seed Feast like no other:

Fruition’s first annual bulk seed gifting gathering shared with 100+ bags, jars and 10-gallon totes (!) full of seeds bursting open, like so many hearts 🌻

Take a deep breath and imagine

can you feel?

all these people

bringing all these seeds

to so many communities, large and small

near and far

and can I tell you?

It was such balm for our souls: rather than the frenetic feeding frenzy that can so easily descend like hungry hyenas on seed ‘swaps’ and other spaces where “things” are deemed ‘free,’

the respect

the listening

the slow, deep connection

the love

so audible in our ears

here in our hands

being poured, as seeds, into countless bags:

have you ever seen so much love so

visible?

We do this til we feed & free us 🌽

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

Petra & the many Possibilities of Fruition

ps

And yes, we’ll do this again and again and again 🌻