2022 Event Calendar
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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 PetrichorStudio 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.
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Saturday, July 30th, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)
Purple Sage Lane Mosaic PAVER Workshop with Leigh Adams, By Poly/AnaJoin 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 PresentationJoin 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.
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Saturday, August 13th, 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PDT)
Reconnecting People and Plants: A Learning Walk in Pasadena, CATherese 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.
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Presentation Testimonials
Meet Your Distinguished Speakers

Shawn Maestretti
Landscape Architect | California #6203, Nevada #1016Designer, 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-presenterLeigh 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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