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March 23, 2026 |
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Weeding fun in the Pollinator PatchMarch 23, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our weeding operation on the other side of the B-G Trail in our Pollinator Patch more |
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Thistle Street GS Restoration EventMarch 24, 10am-1pm @ Longfellow Creek GS: Thistle Street Greenspace |
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Grass be-GONE at the Pollinator PatchMarch 25, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll be removing non-native grass that is invading the "Pollinator Patch" more |
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Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our FutureMarch 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 |
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Daybreak Star Forest Garden Land Tending: Tending Our FutureMarch 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 |
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More Grass Removal at the Pollinator PatchMarch 27, 9am-12:30pm @ Burke-Gilman Trail We'll continue our grass and weed removal at the Pollinator Patch more |
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Maple Playfield: Land & Community TendingMarch 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 |
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North Genesee Forest RestorationMarch 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 |
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Pack 144 Ravenna EventMarch 28, 2:30pm-4:30pm @ Ravenna Park One last volunteer event at Ravenna! We'll be focused on clearing any invasives trying to make a comeback and making sure all the native trees and ferns we planted are going to make it. more |
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Spring's arrival at St. Mark's GreenbeltMarch 28, 10am-2pm @ St. Marks Greenbelt Enjoy the newly flowering native plants as we remove aggressive non endemic plants from the greenbelt. more |
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University Prep volunteer day at Discovery ParkMarch 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 |
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Burke-Gilman Reunion Bird Walk on the B-G TrailMarch 29, 7am-9:30am @ Burke-Gilman Trail For 10 Years, Woody Wheeler led bird walks every month for us on the Burke-Gilman Trail He has offered to come back and do a reunion walk on the Trail. The walk is a total of 2 miles out and back at a leisurely pace, Experience is not necessary and Woody is a great teacher more |
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Forest Restoration at Greg Davis ParkMarch 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 |
