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March 09, 2026
9 Clearing Grass & Fennel at the Pollinator Patch March 09, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail To protect our growing flowers We'll be beating back non native grass that will squeeze out the native wild flowers we have planted more
9 Magnuson Reforeststion March 09, 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
9 Plant rescue March 09, 1pm-4pm @ SW Queen Anne Greenbelt We will be removing invasives. It will mostly be ivy and some blackberries more
9 WEED+GREET in the Alder Creek Natural Area. March 09, 9am-11am @ Washington Park and Arboretum Join neighbors in tending our beloved Alder Creek. Goodwill abundant. This month we will pull ivy from the park frontage on 26th Ave E. more
11 More weed Removal at the Pollinator Patch March 11, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll be rooting out non-native grasses that are trying to smother the many native wild flowers we have planted there more
12 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 12, 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
12 Restoration is for the Birds March 12, 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 bit of digging up roots. We're in a mad dash to finish this task before nesting season so the chicks can have some peace. All tools will be provided. more
13 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
13 It's Friday the 13th for the Non-native Grasses in our Pollinator Patch March 13, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll be removing Non-native grasses et al in this section of our Pollinator Patch to save our native wild flowers from being squeezed out more
13 Pulling ivy with A Cleaner Alki March 13, 9:30am-11:30am @ Schmitz Preserve Park Help the community group, A Cleaner Alki, remove ivy to make room for native plants that will support birds, insects, salamanders and other wildlife 🦅 more
14 First glimpses of the coming Spring March 14, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt As spring approaches help us remove plants that are not endemic to the Pacific NW, but seem to be due to their aggressive growth habits. more
14 Golden Gardens Park work parties March 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 March 14, 10am-1pm @ Licton Springs Park Join FRIENDS OF LICTON SPRINGS for our monthly work parties. Removing Blackberries, grass, Ivy, etc. Replanting in the Fall with selected plants. more
14 International Day of Forests at Westcrest Park March 14, 10am-1pm @ Westcrest Park Join Dirt Corps this March to celebrate the International Day of Forests and help us care for this section of the West Duwamish Greenbelt. We'll be learning about this international celebration and forest care event and the tree species present in Westcrest Park. We'll then be caring for our restoration area by applying mulch around the native plants and trees and removing weeds (looking at you blackberry!). We hope to see you there! All ages OK more
14 Orchard Street Ravine Work Party March 14, 10am-1pm @ Orchard Street Ravine Join other enthusiastic volunteers for a fun morning restoring and preserving our native forest. more
14 Pigeon Point Park Restoration Event March 14, 10am-1pm @ Pigeon Point more
14 Planting at Camp Long March 14, 10am-1pm @ Camp Long Join us for a planting party at Camp Long on the 14th! We have 70-80 plants to put into the ground, and we'll get it done, rain or shine! I'll be bringing some coffee, snacks, and sparkling water for the volunteers! more
14 Pulling ivy with Schmitz Park Restore March 14, 10am-12pm @ Schmitz Preserve Park Help the community group, Schmitz Park Restore, remove ivy to make space for native plants that will support birds, insects, salamanders and other wildlife 🦅 more
14 Restoration is for the Birds March 14, 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 bit of digging up roots. We're in a mad dash to finish this task before nesting season so the chicks can have some peace. All tools will be provided. more
16 Invasive Weed Removal March 16, 10am-1pm @ Leschi Park Join us as we bring together community volunteers to remove invasive blackberry and ivy at Leschi Park. This hands-on restoration event helps protect native plants, support young trees, and improve the health of our local ecosystem. No prior experience is needed—just bring your energy and commitment to caring for our shared green space. more
16 More Weeding in the Pollinator Patch March 16, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our project of remoc=ving Non-Native grass that are trying to squeeze our native wildflowers that are planted there. more
17 Pigeon Point Park Restoration Event March 17, 10am-1pm @ Pigeon Point more
18 Seattle: Mt. Baker Park March 18, 10am-1pm @ Mount Baker Park more
19 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
20 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
21 3rd Saturday forest restoration at Jackson Park Trail! March 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 March 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 Combatting Nihilism March 21, 9:30am-12:30pm @ Discovery Park Afraid for the future of the environment? Let’s do something to help fight the looming extinction crisis. By removing invasive exotic plants and planting natives, we will be improving the habitat for a more biodiverse Discovery Park. We’ll be removing noxious blackberry to make way for new native plants. more
21 East Duwamish Work Party March 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 Friends of Discovery Park at Capehart March 21, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-safe area in Discovery Park. Come help us increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching and aerate the soil to encourage symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more
21 Keeping Dead Horse Canyon Beautiful March 21, 9am-11am @ Lakeridge Park Have some fun working to keep our beautiful park beautiful. more
21 Longfellow Creek GS Restoration Event March 21, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Central more
24 Thistle Street GS Restoration Event March 24, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Thistle Street Greenspace more
26 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
27 Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our Future March 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 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 WEEK 6 — MAR 12–13 WATER REMEMBERS M Archive: Archive of Ocean — Origin Hospicing Modernity: There Is No Away LAND PRACTICE Trace runoff and pooling Follow water without correcting it QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH Where does water go when it leaves here? What do we send “away” that never leaves? What water are you from? CREATIVE PRACTICES Watershed self-portraits Sound mapping of drip, flow, saturation Blue-line memory maps SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone guides the water walk Someone offers a reflection WEEK 7 — MAR 19–20 TENDING WITHOUT CERTAINTY M Archive: Baskets — Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven Hospicing Modernity: Mapping Horizons of Possibility LAND PRACTICE Mulching and soil repair QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What are we willing to tend without guarantees? How do we care without controlling outcomes? CREATIVE PRACTICES Basket pages: futures unnamed Collective language weaving Lists of responsibilities, not goals SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides mulch depth Someone names what “enough” feels like WEEK 8 — MAR 26–27 STAYING AS THINGS FALL APART M Archive: Fragments & Offerings Hospicing Modernity: As Things Fall Apart / Returning Home / Getting to Zero LAND PRACTICE Site walk: before/after noticing Documentation, not celebration QUESTIONS TO LIVE WITH What responsibility remains? Where is home when nothing is finished? What does “zero” feel like in the body? CREATIVE PRACTICES Collective statements of responsibility Archiving fragments (text, drawings, maps) Silence as practice SHARED LEADERSHIP Someone decides what is archived Someone closes the circle Someone invites stillness more
28 Maple Playfield: Land & Community Tending March 28, 11am-2:30pm @ Maple Wood Playfield ENGAGEMENT 2 — URGENCY, DECAY & CARE You’re invited to a community land gathering held in gentleness, intention, and shared responsibility. Together, we’ll tend the land through composting, mulching, soil repair, and blackberry and laurel management — practicing care without force and action without harm. These gatherings are a return to land, to care, and to being in right relationship. This season, we continue nurturing the pocket food forest, supporting a space of learning, play, and community care for young people and families. Alongside the land work, we continue an optional book-and-film braid in partnership with The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Reading Threads (optional) 📖 M Archive — Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Fire → Archive of Sky — What We Became • Dirt (Revisited) 📖 Hospicing Modernity — Vanessa Machado de Oliveira • Faster Than Thought • Living and Dying Well • Surrendering Arrogance Art / Somatic Practices (optional) Breath tracking during labor One-sentence writing (only what is necessary) 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 more
28 North Genesee Forest Restoration March 28, 10am-12:30pm @ Genesee Park and Playfield Celebrate the arrival of Spring a morning with friends and neighbors in the fresh air of Genesee forest as begin to get plants ready for the heat of summer. We'll be pulling some English Ivy in previously cleared areas and snugging baby plants with nourishing mulch. Bring the kids, of course--all ages are welcome! more
28 Pigeon Point Park Restoration Event March 28, 10am-1pm @ Pigeon Point more
28 Spring's arrival at St. Mark's Greenbelt March 28, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Enjoy the newly flowering native plants as we remove aggressive non endemic plants from the greenbelt. more
28 University Prep volunteer day at Discovery Park March 28, 10am-1pm @ Discovery Park Capehart Forest is the most wildlife-safe area in Discovery Park. Come help us increase its biodiversity by weeding out invasives, mulching and aerate the soil to encourage symbiotic fungi, and plant this years native shrubs and groundcovers. more
31 Forest Restoration at Greg Davis Park March 31, 10am-1pm @ West Seattle Golf Course Join the DNDA Nature program and help restore important habitat in the critical Longfellow Creek Watershed. Each work party begins with a short informal forest ecology discussion and we spend the remainder of the time performing various restoration activities, including planting native trees and shrubs, removing invasive species, mulching previously-planted areas and more. We work rain or shine! more

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