If you’ve ever gathered with either Living Earth or Paige Emery, you already know that we like to live every day like it’s Earth Day. Living Earth’s first gathering was during Earth Week, on last year’s Earth Day we hiked to the wisdom tree with Paige Emery to chat native plants, play flute, and brew tea with herbs from Paige’s garden, and this year we’re gathering with TreePeople.
Join us this Earth Day in ecological community to chat grassroots activism, accessible environmental stewardship amidst climate crisis and disaster capitalism, love on our native and regionally adaptive plants, and together we’ll stay grounded with the Earth despite the daily onslaught of subjugation and uprooting.
We’ll begin our evening with a ~1 mile ecology walk on the nature trails of TreePeople to cultivate relationship with the land we are on. Both Paige Emery and Noah Klein will introduce some of our plantcestors that we’ll meet along the way and get into a bit of the history of both TreePeople and the Santa Monica Mountains. We’ll land at the top of a scenic lookout where Paige will speak on environmental stewardship, guide a tea ceremony and sound meditation, and offer a tree propagation workshop.
This gathering will end with the sunset, which you’re welcome to watch from TreePeople. It’s one of our absolute favorite views! In an effort to keep this intimate gathering accessible tickets will be sliding scale. If you’re able, we ask you to please donate a bit more to help compensate Paige for sharing her knowledge, practice, and fill that gas tank to get back to Ojai.
Plan to bring:
a blanket to sit on
a water bottle
any snacks you may need (or snacks to share)
a cutting of a tree you’d like to propagate (instructions will be shared soon)
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Paige Emery is an ecological artist and herbalist exploring ways of remembering the Earth. Her work interweaves healing arts and critical ecology, ancestral memory and embodied futurities, ecopoetics and socioenvironmental praxis. As a way of life, her practice is rooted in reciprocity with the Earth.
Paige’s practice stems from a background in art, herbalism, ancestral medicine, eco-philosophy, environmentalism, and learning from the Earth. Her work serves as a bridge between the internal and external landscapes of ecological consciousness through guided plant rituals, multispecies installations, ecopoetic meditations, embodied ecology walks, herbal healing sessions, music soundscapes for more-than-human connection, and sharing plant remedies with her community.
Born in 1973 from the hopes and dreams of a teenager, TreePeople is now one of the largest environmental organizations headquartered in Southern California.
They have inspired, engaged, and supported more than 3 million people to take action for our environment by planting and caring for more than 3 million trees in our local forests, mountains, parks, and our neighborhoods. Through on-the-ground research and educational programs, TreePeople shares knowledge with policymakers, students, educators, and communities around the world.
After fires burn, TreePeople reforests. When schools are covered in concrete, TreePeople creates green schoolyards. When communities experience food insecurity, TreePeople distributes fruit trees. When California is drought-stricken, TreePeople designs solutions to capture rainwater. As the world faces increasing threats from a more hostile climate, TreePeople helps create actionable solutions.