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2022 Event Calendar

  • July & August

     

    Saturday, July 9th, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)
    Purple Sage Lane Mosaic PAVER Workshop with Leigh Adams, By Poly/Ana

    (SOLD OUT…MORE TO COME!)

    Join Artist Leigh Adams and Poly/Ana to learn how to transform broken discards in to beautiful designs while building community.

    Saturday, July 23rd, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
    Reimagining Gardens: A Garden Tour in Altadena, Pasadena & La Canada, By Studio Petrichor

    Studio Petrichor is practicing a more regenerative, life-supporting approach to design, implementation and landcare. Over the last five years, this shift in mindset and action has inspired a ripple effect throughout our community. We wish to share this with you. Our goal is to bring you along as we explore what Studio Petrichor has done, how we’ve succeeded (and failed) and most importantly, what we continue to learn along the way.

    Register here!

    Saturday, July 30th, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)
    Purple Sage Lane Mosaic PAVER Workshop with Leigh Adams, By Poly/Ana

    Join Artist Leigh Adams and Poly/Ana to learn how to transform broken discards in to beautiful designs while building community.

    Register here!

    Thursday, August 4th, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM (PDT)
    Rediscovering Ourselves Through Nature – A Free Community Zoom Presentation

    Join Poly/Ana for our inaugural 1st Thursday evening webinar. Our mission is to educate and empower communities as agents of change to honor and protect natural, living systems.

    Our host Rick Halsey of the Chaparral Institute and Poly/Ana invite virtual attendees to explore and redefine our sense of self. Rick has seen disasters first-hand. He survived his own trial by fire as a firefighter when he gained a new perspective.

    Register here!

    Saturday, August 13th, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PDT)
    Reconnecting People and Plants: A Learning Walk in Pasadena, CA

    Therese and Poly/Ana are teaming up for an interactive journey into the Pasadena foothills. Participants will walk through the a wild area, listen, observe, interact, and connect with nature’s bounty. Join Poly/Ana and Therese Richau of Native Roots, for a journey into a Pasadena wildland area, where we will walk, listen, observe, interact, and all while reconnecting to Nature’s bounty.

    Register here!

Presentation Testimonials

  • “Nature-centric education plays a pivotal role in sparking intrinsic motivation, improving student behavior, promoting effective communication, strengthening cooperation, enhancing academic achievement, nurturing students with special needs and creating healthier, happier future generations. Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams’ presentation on Climate Reality will cater to all of the aforementioned advantages of educating students to walk with nature, protect it, and look up to it for answers to everything.”

    Kavitha Satya, Middle School Science Teacher, New Horizon School

  • “Wow. I have heard talks similar to pieces of yours but never one that had ALL of that excellent information in it. The graphics were spot on and made it so easy for anyone to understand what is going on with our planet. I believe that you should take your presentation to people in Congress. Everyone needs to experience this presentation. We do need to garden like our lives depend on it. I am inspired to go and really take my habitat gardening to the next level, starting with using Hugelkultur. Thank you so much!”

    Lisa Bellora, San Diego Landscape Designer

  • “I just attended a beautifully integrated lecture given by Mr. Shawn Maestretti entitled Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape. This wonderful talk illuminated the interconnections between urban gardens, carbon sequestration, soil construction, water conservation, green mulch, and climate change… I highly recommend attending one of his educational programs if you have the opportunity.”

    Rebecca A. Behar-Johnson, recent attendee of Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape presentation

  • “Kudos to Shawn Maestretti for his enthusiastic and skillful presentation of an emerging paradigm for urban gardens. This paradigm frames the global causes and impacts associated with climate change and describes actions that can be applied locally in gardens and landscapes of all sizes to address these causes and impacts.Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape embraces carbon sequestration, heat island cooling, climate adapted plants, rainwater harvesting, habitat enhancement and a vision for gardens of the future.”

    Bob Perry, FASLA, Author of Landscape Plants for California Gardens

Meet Your Distinguished Speakers

Shawn Maestretti
Landscape Architect | California #6203, Nevada #1016

Designer, plantsman, licensed landscape architect and contractor, certified arborist, certified permaculture designer, educator, and environmental steward. Shawn has been creating exceptionally designed and artfully developed gardens in both California and Nevada since 2006. Highly collaborative with a strong attention to detail and a knack for problem solving, he helps his clients realize outdoor living spaces that they will connect with for years to come. Shawn combines extensive horticultural experience, strong composition skills, and a deep knowledge of regenerative practices with a wide palette of visually and texturally interesting climate-appropriate plants, breathing new life and a sense of place into every garden.

As a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corp, a Kiss the Ground Soil Advocate, and activist in the movement to care for the environment, Shawn has been presenting on regenerative landscapes and their impact on climate change in his new presentation series Regenerative Landscapes and the Climate Crisis. His personal mission is to connect with the natural world, tread lightly on the land, nurture biodiversity, protect water, and bring people together.

 

Leigh Adams
Consultant/Co-presenter

Leigh is an educator and eco-sensitive designer. She has been a horticultural interpreter at the LA County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens for many years and until Covid, has trained many county agencies in regenerative practices. She has conducted hands-on workshops with local schools, private citizens and professional groups. Her love of collaboration and education infuse all aspects of her work, leaving participants with a profound sense of empowered accomplishments. She has held multiple artist’s residencies at the LA County Arboretum, Metabolic Studios, Westland School and New Horizon School, to name a few. Leigh has received a Global Citizen Award from the United Nations, an Angel Award from the City of Los Angeles, the National Gardening Teacher of the Year 2020 and an Outstanding Citizen Award from the County of Los Angeles.

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