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February 13, 2026
13 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future February 13, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling more
13 Magnuson Reforestation February 13, 9am-12pm @ Warren G. Magnuson Park Help improve habitat and create replacement forest on a formerly denuded navy airfield. (Above photo taken in Navy era). The aim is to create healthy forest habitat and increase beneficial ecosystem services including provision of human enjoyment and health. It is also an opportunity to enjoy nature and learn a bit about native plants while doing satisfying work. Work is most likely to include removing invasive plants like ivy, Canada thistle, and blackberry but may also include other tasks such as distributing wood chip mulch. Because the work may be beyond capability of youth below high school age, please get the leader’s permission before registering if younger. more
13 Pulling ivy with A Cleaner Alki February 13, 9:30am-11:30am @ Duwamish Head Greenbelt Help the community group, A Cleaner Alki, remove ivy and blackberry to make space for native plants that will support birds, insects and other wildlife 🦅 more
13 Wood Chipping at the Pollinator Patch February 13, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll be spreading wood chips over Ron's newly cleared area more
14 Bleeding Hearts Club: Land and Community Tending February 14, 11am-2:30pm @ Frink Park Bleeding Hearts Club: You’re invited to a community land gathering rooted in slowness, care, and shared responsibility. Together, we’ll tend the land through ivy cut-and-roll, blackberry clearing, composting, and observation — guided by attention, not urgency. These gatherings are a return to land, to care, and to being in right relationship. Come Listen to Slow Jams, sink your hands in the soil, gaze at your loves through dappled light, and eat snacks! 🖤 Write Love Notes for the Land and Leave Beauty Behind. Come to work. Come to observe. Come to rest. All forms of participation are welcome. Tools, gloves, and snacks provided. No experience needed. more
14 Forest restoration with Schmitz Park Restore February 14, 10am-12pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park Help the community group, Schmitz Park Restore, remove ivy to make room for native plants that will support birds, insects and other wildlife 🦅 more
14 Golden Gardens Park work parties February 14, 9am-12pm @ Golden Gardens Park Do you want to restore the forest at Golden Gardens Park? Come out and help us the second Saturday of every month. We remove invasive weeds and plant native species that return the forest to a more natural ecosystem. We provide tools and training so we only need your enthusiasm to help restore this beautiful park. more
14 Have Fun, Get Fit February 14, 10am-1pm @ Licton Springs Park Weeding Planting Mulching throughout this unique wetland. Enjoy working with volunteers and learn about Licton Springs History and Native American significance. more
14 Pulling ivy with Scout troops February 14, 9:30am-12pm @ Duwamish Head Greenbelt Help the Scouts pull ivy to make room for native plants that will support birds, insects and other wildlife 🦅 more
14 Restoration Planting in the Old-Growth Forest February 14, 1pm-4pm @ Seward Park This is one of the final planting events of the season. If we finish early, we have some mulch to move, and some invasives to take out. more
14 Scenic views in St. Mark's Greenbelt February 14, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Planting natives and removing non-endemic plants from the greenbelt. more
14 Sturtevant Ravine Work Party! February 14, 9am-11am @ Sturtevant Ravine Help continue forest restoration at the Ravine! We will clearing out blackberry and other plants that are surrounding native plants that need our support. more
15 Cheasty Forest at Hanford Steps February 15, 1pm-3pm @ Cheasty GS: Cheasty Blvd Park along 25th Ave S, south of Hanford street. Do not leave valuables in the car. The light rail station Mount Baker is a short walk away. We can cut back blackberries and other weeds or dig them out. more
15 Magnuson Reforestation February 15, 9am-12pm @ Warren G. Magnuson Park Help improve habitat and create replacement forest on a formerly denuded navy airfield. (Above photo taken in Navy era). The aim is to create healthy forest habitat and increase beneficial ecosystem services including provision of human enjoyment and health. It is also an opportunity to enjoy nature and learn a bit about native plants while doing satisfying work. Most of the wprk in this event will be cutting down part of a dense blackberry thicket and digging up large blackberry roots to prepare for future trees and native plantings. Because the work may be beyond capability of youth below high school age, please get the leader’s permission before registering if younger. more
15 Planting Snowberry and Weeding Blackberry February 15, 10am-12pm @ Woodland Park Planting snowberry live stakes and maples in the 2026 planting zone and removing blackberry and ivy in next years planting zone. About 250 large live stakes and 2000 small live stakes need to be planted. more
15 Valentine Workparty for Little Brook Natural Area February 15, 10am-12pm @ Little Brook Natural Area Show some love for a riparian habitat on Little Brook Creek by joining us to keep blackberry out and to keep our native plantings free to grow this spring. Soils are softer now making it easier to dig out the blackberry roots. Work area is on a gentle slope. A brief orientation to the task for the day, weeding techniques, and safety reminders will be given at the start of the event. if raining heavily, event will be rescheduled to another date. more
16 Monday green workday at Judge Stokes Overlook February 16, 11am-1:30pm @ Judge Charles M. Stokes OverlK Come work off Valentine's Day candy ... and help us clear blackberry and ivy at Judge Charles M. Stokes Overlook. All experience levels welcome! This is only our 2nd work day at this site! Our first work day made great strides cutting into a large bank of brambles to reveal a living pine tree previously presumed deceased, and new ground where we can start envisioning a forest. We'll continue cutting vines, digging out roots and piling debris. Expect mud, thorns, and camaraderie. Youth aged 12 and up are welcome. Youth under age 15 must have a signed waiver unless accompanied by parent or guardian. Potential volunteers under age 12 please hold off until we've done more of the initial site prep. If the weather is iffy, please check email by 9am to confirm - contact leader if in doubt. more
16 Mulching February 16, 10am-1pm @ Leschi Park We are mulching to help stop the spread of invasive blackberry in beautiful Leschi Park. more
16 Plant rescue and maybe propagation February 16, 1pm-4pm @ SW Queen Anne Greenbelt We will continue to explore the site and remove invasives. We may also do some propagation using on site plants. more
16 Will the weeding never end? February 16, 9am-12:30pm @ Yesler Creek Headwaters Ivy, Ivy everywhere! we'll continue our weeding operation at the South end of Yesler Ravine more
17 Thistle Street GS Restoration Event February 17, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Thistle Street Greenspace more
18 Longfellow Creek Mulch Party February 18, 9:30am-12pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central With your help, we are evolving Longfellow Creek into a thriving native food forest. Following the hard work of many restoration events in this space, we are continuing to mulch all the new plants, in order to keep them warm, provide nutrients, and keep back invasive plants. Come learn about the different trees, shrubs, and groundcovers we’ve planted, the plant guilds we’re building, and if interested, their edible and ecological benefits. Walk away with pride, knowing your efforts support local ecology, community, and overall good health. more
19 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future February 19, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling more
19 South Meadow Blackberry Purge February 19, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Help us make way for more native plant habitat by removing the many invasive blackberry plants encroaching on the south meadow. This will be a little bit of cutting back the blackberry out of the forest edge of the meadow and a lot of spreading wood chips to keep weed seeds from sprouting. All tools will be provided. more
20 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future February 20, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling more
21 3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail! February 21, 10am-2pm @ Jackson Park Golf Course Enjoy the "natural areas" along the Jackson Park golf course perimeter trail. We'll walk to a work area and continue to make progress removing invasive ivy and blackberries, planting native plants, weeding, or mulching, as the season demands! more
21 Carkeek STARS Work Party February 21, 9am-12pm @ Carkeek Park Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning of forest restoration and trails maintenance. We have a wide variety of tasks you can help with. Adults and teenagers welcome. If you are a group of 5 or more contact Dale Johnson. Follow the STARS signs to our meeting place, which will be the parking lot at the Environmental Learning Center. Welcome! more
21 East Duwamish Work Party February 21, 10am-12pm @ East Duwamish GS: S Chicago St Help take care of the forest along this neighborhood trail! Depending on the time of the year, we'll be pulling and removing ivy, cutting back and digging out blackberry or planting new plants; and always having a good time! more
21 Longfellow Creek GS Restoration Event February 21, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central more
21 Seattle: Kubota Garden February 21, 10am-1pm @ Kubota Gardens Natural Area more
21 Seward Park Forest Restoration Planting February 21, 10am-12:30pm @ Seward Park Join us as we continue restoration of a half-acre fern die-off area within Seward Park’s beautiful Magnificent Forest. Our goal is to bring back a diverse, healthy understory by restoring sword ferns and other native plant species. This event will focus on planting native species including sword fern, evergreen huckleberry, Oso berry, salmon berry and cedar trees in previously mulched areas and sections of bare ground. more
21 Volunteer Work Party at Seattle's Largest Urban Farm February 21, 10am-12:30pm @ Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetland Join us the 1st Friday and 3rd Saturday of the month for our wetland work parties at Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands! We will work together in community to help restore wetland areas of Seattle's largest urban farm. Support installing native plants, trail maintenance, and other stewardship tasks. more
21 Weeding in Dead Horse Canyon February 21, 9am-11am @ Lakeridge Park Wander in a beautifully restored forest pulling some invasive species along the way. more
21 Winter Plantings Love & Tuck at Westcrest Park February 21, 10am-1pm @ Westcrest Park Join us to tuck in our new winter plantings with mulch and then remove blackberry to make sure our plantings have plenty of space to grow in our restoration area! more
22 end of season February 22, 10am-2pm @ Mount Baker Park Lets wrap up a great year and finish strong! more
22 Friends of Discovery Park February 22, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-diverse area in Discovery Park. Come help us promote forest health and increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching and aerate the soil to encourage symbiotic fungi, and plant this year's native shrubs and groundcovers. more
22 Intermingle at Interlaken with People and Plants February 22, 12pm-2pm @ Interlaken Park We plan on walking, talking, and saving trees together! Removal of ivy off of tree trunks, clearing walking paths, and mindful movement with community. more
26 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future February 26, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling more
27 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future February 27, 11am-2:30pm @ Daybreak Star These gatherings are a place to return to the land, to reconnect with Indigenous teachings, and to be in community with each other in ways that are rooted, relational, and real. They’re about Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural memory, and reclaiming the right to care for land in the ways our ancestors always have. Led by community members and organizers with United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, this work centers Indigenous knowledge systems and relationships with land that have existed here since time immemorial—and that continue, despite every attempt to erase them. The Forest Garden is growing with care—planted with camas, salmonberry, huckleberry, wild strawberry, nettle, cedar, and other Native plants that are more than food and medicine—they’re our teachers, our elders, and our ancestors. These plants are being tended not just for harvest, but to support the many Indigenous-centered programs at UIATF: elder meals, youth programming, cultural wellness, and more. This is one way we practice sovereignty—by feeding ourselves, our people, and our spirits in alignment with our values. In a time when many of us are searching for where to belong and how to show up—this is a space to meet one another, build real relationships, and map the power we already hold together. Let’s gather not just to work the land—but to connect, share our stories, and remember that we are each other’s safety, each other’s strength, and each other’s solution. We will be preparing for our OPTIONAL book and film series in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. February - March we will be reading "M-Archive" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Both books can be found on Libby or Audible. (We are including this list, just incase people want to join in, or engage at a different time. No pressure. Everyone is invited to participate in a created practices and conversations. We are intentionally making this accessible even if folks aren't able to read the text.) WEEK 1 — FEB 5–6 ENTERING THE RECORD M Archive: Archive of Dirt — What We Did Hospicing Modernity: A Single Story of “Forward” LAND PRACTICE Walk the site without touching Notice soil, slope, water, plants Identify ivy, blackberry, laurel QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What stories are already written here? What happened before we arrived? Who decided what “progress” looked like? CREATIVE PRACTICES (CHOOSE) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Mapping: What We Did / What Was Done Here Writing fragments that begin with “Before us…” WEEK 2 — FEB 12–13 ENTANGLEMENT M Archive: Dirt → Fire Hospicing Modernity: The House of Modernity LAND PRACTICE Ivy cut-and-roll Stack ivy for compost—nothing disappears QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What was built to help but now causes harm? When does protection turn into suffocation? What systems promised safety? CREATIVE PRACTICES String/rope mapping of entanglement Writing or drawing from the forest floor’s view Diagrams of “houses” we were taught to trust SHARED LEADERSHIP A participant demonstrates ivy technique Someone decides when enough is enough Someone explains why ivy is not “thrown away” WEEK 3 — FEB 19–20 DEFENSE & URGENCY M Archive: Archive of Fire — Rate of Change Hospicing Modernity: Faster Than Thought LAND PRACTICE Blackberry cutting and root crown removal Work slower than instinct QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who taught us to hurry? What does urgency cost bodies and land? When is speed useful—and when is it violence? CREATIVE PRACTICES Timed writing + intentional pauses Charcoal or ink gesture marks Breath tracking during labor SHARED LEADERSHIP Participants sets the pace Someone calls a collective pause Someone reflects on urgency aloud WEEK 4 — FEB 26–27 LIGHT, SHADE, & POWER M Archive: Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became Hospicing Modernity: Surrendering Arrogance LAND PRACTICE Laurel identification and management Observe changes in light and moisture QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Who gets access to light? What thrives when dominance loosens? Where do our assumptions fail? CREATIVE PRACTICES Light/shadow mapping Writing from an understory plant’s voice Sky-based metaphors for becoming LEADERSHIP OPENINGS Someone interprets the light shift Someone chooses where not to intervene WEEK 5 — MAR 5–6 DECAY AS CARE M Archive: Dirt (Revisited) Hospicing Modernity: Living and Dying Well LAND PRACTICE Build or turn compost piles Layer with intention QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH How do we care for what is ending? What deserves gentleness even in removal? What does dignity look like in decay? CREATIVE PRACTICES Letters to what is being composted One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) Temperature, smell, time journaling more
27 Mapes Creek Mouth Blackberry Removal February 27, 10am-1pm @ Beer Sheva Park The Mapes Creek Mouth Blackberry Removal Project is a habitat restoration initiative focused on eliminating invasive Himalayan blackberry from the shoreline and riparian zone at the mouth of Mapes Creek in Beer Sheva Park. By removing dense blackberry thickets, the project improves ecological function, supports the recovery of native plant communities, enhances wildlife habitat, and contributes to long‑term stewardship of this important Lake Washington creek corridor. Volunteers and community partners work together to restore a healthier, more resilient natural environment. more
28 Forest Restoration - Longfellow Creek at Graham Street February 28, 10am-12:30pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Delridge Natural Area You and your fellow volunteers will participate in hands-on conservation work. This event will be some combination of removing invasive plant, planting native plants, and putting down wood chips, based on how far we get in the previous event. more
28 Intermingle at Interlaken with People and Plants February 28, 10am-2pm @ Interlaken Park Come be with the community of plants and people for a bit. Activities will vary based on activity level and the day, come and go as you please. We will be working with our hands and hearts. more
28 Kubota forest work - always ivy! February 28, 10am-12pm @ Kubota Gardens Natural Area So much ivy! Every month, volunteers make a big difference by removing ivy so that trees, bushes, ferns and other native plants have room to grow. As you will quickly see, the ivy covers large areas of ground and is climbing up trees. We also are discovering small Himalayan blackberry plants and getting those out immediately is a priority. No experience is needed - just bring your energy and interest in making a difference! more
28 Maple Playfield: Land & Community Tending February 28, 11am-2:30pm @ Maple Wood Playfield ENGAGEMENT 1 — RECORD, MEMORY & ENTANGLEMENT You’re invited to a community land gathering rooted in slowness, care, and shared responsibility. Together, we’ll tend the land through ivy cut-and-roll, blackberry clearing, composting, and observation — guided by attention, not urgency. These gatherings are a return to land, to care, and to being in right relationship. This season, we’re planting and preparing a pocket food forest — a space of immersive play, learning, and community care for young people and families. Alongside the land work, we’re opening an optional book-and-film braid in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Reading Threads (optional) 📖 M Archive — Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Archive of Dirt — What We Did • Dirt → Fire • Archive of Fire — Rate of Change 📖 Hospicing Modernity — Vanessa Machado de Oliveira • A Single Story of “Forward” • The House of Modernity Art / Somatic Practices (optional) Touch drawing with soil or charcoal Slow walking + breath noticing through the site Come to work. Come to observe. Come to rest. All forms of participation are welcome. Tools, gloves, and snacks provided. No experience needed. 📍 Meet near the playground 🗓 2/28/2026 🕚 11:00am–2:30pm Part of a Green Seattle Partnership–supported stewardship effort more
28 North Genesee Forest Restoration February 28, 10am-12:30pm @ Genesee Park and Playfield Come spend a morning with friends and neighbors in the fresh air of Genesee forest as we continue the planting season and looks for signs of Spring. We'll be pulling some English Ivy to make room for the ferns and other native plants we hope to get in the ground. Bring the kids, of course--all ages are welcome! more
28 Pigeon Point Park Restoration Event February 28, 10am-1pm @ Pigeon Point more
28 Wrapping up planting in St. Mark's Greenbelt February 28, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Finish planting natives for Winter 2026. more

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