Revive the Roots

Looking for a good reason to visit Revive the Roots? Seeking a meaningful way to spend time outdoors, meet new people, and support a thriving community space?✨🌱 Come lend a hand at Revive the Roots Volunteer Day!

We'll be working together on garden projects, farm tasks, and other seasonal projects that help keep our beautiful site growing and welcoming for all. No experience needed—just bring your enthusiasm, closed-toe shoes, comfortable clothes, and a willingness to get a little dirty!

🌿 All are welcome!
🧤 Tools and guidance provided
💚 Fresh air and good company
🥬 Community meal at

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980488764207?aff=oddtdtcreator

Can't wait to see you there!

A welcoming space to connect with other parents, caregivers & little ones! 🌳 🕙📍Every Monday at 10:00 AM, discover Rooted Littles - A casual outdoor meet-up where toddlers and their grown-ups can play in and explore nature.

Gather on the beautiful Mowry Commons grounds for unstructured play, conversation and connection. Whether your little one loves the dirt, saying hi to the chickens, or simply wandering the trails, there's room for everyone to grow together. 🤝

Bring a snack, dress for the weather, and come make some new friends! No registration required—just show up and join the fun.

Spring flower social feed cleanse! 🧼💐 June is around the corner, and we are taking time to appreciate everything that May has had to offer.

We have so many great programs and events coming up this summer season. 📆 Make sure to explore our Eventbrite link in our Linktree to RSVP to Art Making in the Garden, Nature's Gay Solstice, Firefly Walks and more!

Spend the longest day of the year at Revive The Roots, celebrating q***r joy, creativity, music, and community in nature! ☀️🌈

Join us on June 21st from 12:30–4:00 PM for a playful outdoor gathering featuring guided nature walks with Q***r Hikes, eco-art puppet making with the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, a community sound garden, lawn games, and a magical performance by Wicked Q***r Puppet Theater.

Throughout the day, attendees are invited to explore the land and forage for natural materials to make their own paperbag puppet. Create your own puppet using reclaimed and natural materials, then join our joyful Puppet Pride Parade kicking off the Wicked Q***r Puppet Theater performance at 3 PM! 🎭

Not into hiking or crafting? Relax in the community garden area with bocce, co****le, board games, card games, hula hoops from Allie Loop, and a Sound Garden of free-range musical instruments. Come make noise, make art, and celebrate the sunniest day of the year together. Bring your Dad, daddy or father-figure, but most of all, bring yourself! 🌱

Day-Of Schedual
12:30 PM – Doors Open
1:00–1:45 PM – Guided Q***r Hikes Nature Walk + Foraging Walk
2:00–2:45 PM – Second Guided Hike + Foraging Walk
1:00–3:00 PM – Puppet Making, Sound Garden, Lawn Games & Community Tabling
3:00–4:00 PM – Puppet Parade + Performance by Wicked Q***r Puppet Theater

Ticket link below. Pay-what-you-can tiers are limited so get yours today! NOTAFLOF
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/natures-gay-solstice-at-revive-the-roots-tickets-1990065825455

Additional community partners and activities to be announced soon!
Ticket link below. Pay-what-you-can tiers are limited, so get yours today! NOTAFLOF
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Meet your Orchard Care Experts!🌳🍑🍎🍐 These three friends are long-time stewards of the land and are looking forward to sharing their knowledge throughout the rest of our Orchard Care Workshop series. Only 3 more workshops left! Don't miss out on learning the value of polyculture as well as the skill of root layering, cloning and harvesting fruit trees!

Amanda: Pronouns - they/she 🌱
Amanda is a community-builder and creative with a penchant for plants. In their work with Revive the Roots and Nuts and Bolts Nursery Co-op, they focus on propagating edible perennials and cultivating ecological relationships.

Tyler: he/him 🌱
Tyler is a professional botanist who specializes in fruit and nut trees, integrated pest management and plant propagation. Special expertise in floriculture and chestnut trees. Passionate advocate for local agriculture.

Bradford: they/them 🌱
Throughout the years, Revive the Roots has been a place for Bradford to practice thier passion of caring for and learning about plants and the natural systems they are a part of. As a first-time instructor, they invite you to explore what it means to be a part of your surrounding ecology in a meaningful way.

"Rehabilitating habitats and local ecology through native perennial plantings and invasive management has been a joy and at times a struggle. Watching the environment heal itself, with a little educated input and guidance, is really rewarding and feels like being part of a never-ending performative art piece where you are both the creator and the observer." - Bradford

Pretty flowers for attention! 🌿☠️ Keep your eyes on the trail while looking for wild Lady Slippers this season! These magical native orchids are blooming — but so is poison ivy. ⚠️

Remember: “leaves of three, let it be!”. Don’t wander off the paths or reach blindly into the undergrowth. Familiarize yourselves with other itchy plants like Poison Oak and Poison Sumac. Poison ivy can twirl around the trees, line the paths and hide amongst the beauty. Plus, Lady Slippers themselves are delicate and protected in our area, so give them some space. Never pick them.

Look, admire, photograph — but tread lightly! Nature’s treasures are best enjoyed without the itchy souvenir. 🌿📸

Felting-fun comes to Art Making In The Garden! 🐑 Saturday, June 13th, We’ll be turning natural wool fibers, a little bit of tinsel (if you want ✨), water and soap into dreamy felted landscapes inspired by the land around us.

Think fruit trees, grassy hills, tangled roots, wildflowers, and soft little worlds you can hold in your hands! 🌎🌳

Ticket link below. No experience needed—just curiosity, a love of nature. Thank you to RISCA - Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for helping make these eco-arts & crafts workshops possible!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/landscape-felting-workshop-at-revive-the-roots-tickets-1989610652019

Spring is in full force at Revive The Roots & we are so happy to have ***r.hikes back at Mowry Commons this coming weekend. 🌈 Q***r Hikes is a fun, safe space for the LGBTQ+ community in southern New England to explore nature & make new friends. They will be leading a hike that starts with exploring the community garden spaces, followed by a hike up the fruit path to explore the Pine Forest. 🌲

Join them at the welcome gate at 10am to explore all the wonderful ephemeral features that we love about this space. Link to register is in their bio. Follow Q***r Hikes to learn more! 🦝

Trails are always open dusk till dawn.
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Be a part of the Rootstock 2026 Committee! 🌱🎉
Every gathering begins with a group of people willing to imagine something beautiful together. We’re looking for thoughtful, creative, community-minded people to join our volunteer Rootstock committee. Whether you love organizing, brainstorming ideas, connecting people, or helping events come to life, there’s a place for you here!

Join us in building something meaningful together. No experience necessary... just enthusiasm, collaboration, and care for the land and community. Learn something new, make new friends and reconnect with the land. 🤝

We look forward to meeting you! Apply to join us today. Link below.
https://forms.gle/YyazpwYP6x5XcqzE9

There are 7 spots left in the May Pit Fire Ceramics course! Explore photos from our sold-out November series and reserve your spot today, before it's too late! 🏺

This workshop series is taught by Mollie and Shannon from and will consist of several sessions: a clay building class, a vessel finishing session, a pit firing session, and a celebratory unveiling and potluck graduation. Our class is 4-part pottery course and is a great all-level class for those interested in learning more about this 30,000 year old process of nestling unfired pots together in the ground surrounded by combustible materials to produce finished ceramic vessels. 🔥

Friday, May 8th 5-7pm | Make your Vessels
Saturday, May 1-3pm | Vessel Finishing Touches
Friday, May 15th 5-7pm | Pit Firing
Saturdy, May 16th 1-3pm | Pit Reveal & Finishing

$125 Registration Fee (+tax).


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/may-pit-fire-ceramics-course-art-making-in-the-garden-series-tickets-1985115078638

The Artmaking in the Garden Series, sponsored by RISCA, aims to engage the community with artistic practices at the intersection of sustainability and nature appreciation.