Welcome to Plant Pioneers
We are an intergenerational, multicultural, and diverse grassroots collective exploring compassionate, mutual relationships with Plants, Peoples, and Place. We prioritize and respectfully listen to the wise guidance and generous teachings of First Nations Peoples' and revere their Original Instructions for living harmoniously on this land.
“At Plant Pioneers, we foster ecological respect in all our classes, courses, and trainings which are rooted in restoring our Nature connections.
Our mission and guiding principles are to:
1. Deschool from dominant thinking we each have been
conditioned to about our more than human-kin.
2. Embrace heart-centered dialogue.
3. Re-weave Earth-thinking and the animist transpersonal
worldviews into our everyday thought processes.
4. Honor the Sacred and elements in all life.
5. Prioritize Nature and Plants as agents of change by bringing
them into our everyday living activities as key stakeholders
and decision makers at home, at work and at play.
6. Re-learn / remember how to communicate with them.
And through Knowledge Shares we remember together our innate natural skills and strengths.
As a grassroots, inter-generational, culturally diverse, inter-species collective, we foster the-Nature-that-we-are resilience by:
1. Co-creating bravely.
2. Host inclusive spaces.
3. Envision regenerative futures.
4. Cultivate relationality.
Together we actively:
1. Divest from white supremacy, xenophobia, domination,
extraction.
2. Disengage from human exceptionalism, Plant blindness.
3. Denounce oppression and discrimination.
As members of Catskill Unity, we are united and share this walk with all members of our community: Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, LGBTQIA2S+, individuals impacted by violence, oppression, racism, genderism.
And equally, we acknowledge the devastating impact of humanity's indiscriminate destruction to our more-than-human kin, perpetuating ecological harm, displacement, and extinction.
Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower is a Plant Medicine Person,
co-facilitator and sole proprietor of Plant Pioneers.
Co-Creations on The Farm with the Vegetal Landscape Lady Cannabis Project
Plant Pioneers will be curating and telling a collaborative explorative Plant-Farmer led Agricultural story. This project applies techniques that have yet to be utilized on the farm-landscape. This is an intimate relationship with cross dialoguing between Plant and farmer. Plant Pioneers theorizes there’s potential contributions for new ways for an agrarian economy.
Workshops
Basic Oil Infusion Workbook
This 41-page guide is for the Nature enthusiast, Plant and/or Tree wild crafter, naturalist, homesteader who wild crafts, a wild foods forager, a budding herbalist or even a long-time herbalist, farmer or gardener, teacher, nurse, doctor, lawyer, anyone who desires to align themselves with the co-creative process of Plant oil making.
“Water flows over these hands. May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet.”
Thich Nhat Hanh