Who we are

We are a grass roots inter-generational, culturally diverse, interspecies collective committed to co-creating safe and brave spaces. Where we live and imagine respectful and regenerative futures. As we learn from each other we grow stronger, more relational and culturally rich.

We invite Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, Muslim, Jewish, LGBTQIA2S+, and all persons who have experienced violence, oppression and discrimination for being who they are into our spaces, groups, workshops, trainings, gatherings and zoom circles to come together in our common humanity with our more-than-human kin.

As we share our trainings and natural knowledge about Nature communication, we strongly divest, disengage and condemn white supremacy, xenophobia, cultures of domination, human exceptionalism and Plant blindness.

We are a member of Catskill Unity.

 

A little about why we came together as one

In the summer of 2016, we came together in response to our perceptions of plant-blindness and the untoward actions on the ecology that surrounds us. Yes, the climate crisis, endangered animals and plant species, health equity and equally so, to be transparent when it comes to mental, social and structural colonial domination. So we came together.

We share our diverse skills. We live to emulate equality, justice and inclusivity for all and invite diverse backgrounds Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Muslim, Jewish and LGBTQIA2S+ to join our efforts and work as we join yours.

At Plant Pioneers, our primary classroom is outdoors. Though we started with Music of the Plants, a bio-resonance electronic device liberates Plant frequencies into sound we apply numerous teachings from aligned relationships and give credit to our indigenous Native elders who influence ecological relationships and knowledge. (see Trainings, Workshops and Resources.)

 
 

The Way In – Linda Hogan

Sometimes the way to milk and honey is through the body.

Sometimes the way in is a song.

But there are three ways in the world: dangerous, wounding and beauty.

To enter stone, be water.

To rise through hard Earth, be Plant desiring sunlight, believing in water.

To enter fire, be dry.

To enter life, be food.

Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower

“We each are continental extensions of Earth’s mantle witnessing Herself.”

Greetings friends,
my name is Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower,
Pronoun: She / Her / Hers
Identify: Ashkenazi

As co-founder of Plant Pioneers, a human-Plant relations movement and collective, we are interested in living rightly for Nature and each other. Always, we put Nature first. As a Clinical Herbalist consultant and retired Registered Nurse, my Earthist values speak for and relates with the-Nature-that-surrounds-us. As co-creator of EarthSchool teachings at the Root Cellar, this is my life, not my job,

My early childhood years, the landscape that informed me was the backyard garden in Manhattan, on the unceded Lenape territory known as Mana-Hatta – “Hilly Island”. I am deeply grateful and respectfully acknowledge indigenous teachings of this Land and attribute most of what I know to their teachings shared through my teachers who handed down this knowledge. Giving credit too, to visceral ancestral impressions I received from this city-scape backyard I lived amongst in my formative years. I believe they too informed my relationships that I continue to carry today with Plants, Trees, Land and the-Nature-that-surrounds-us. And, may very well be the reason I ended up in the Catskills of New York, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee since 1979.

I must admit, there was a time when human exceptionalism attempted to divide and insulate my mind from original teachings and teachers. Plants and the back-yard Landscape I grew up in Mana-hatta kept a lifeline trail for me that prevailed. So much so friends, that when ever I heard original truths spoken, they would stick with me and I kept remembering. Remembering to be a voice for people, Plants and Nature from being treated unrightly. And maintaining a place at being an upstander rather than a bystander. As I related and listened, my misguided trainings decolonized and still are decolonizing daily. As I took the time to be in sacred silence and wildcrafted, I understood how to start deconstructing and dismantling these ideologies of human superiority, privilege, extractive mind that were being replicated blindly in me. That human exceptionalism that causes humans to separate from themselves each other and Nature.

My Teachers - Undoing Colonial Mind, Racism, Plant Blindness, Human Superiority:
At EarthSchool, I credit the human-Plant relational exchange. Through many teachers that help us remember. My first human teacher that laid the path for me is Kate Gilday of Woodland Essence who still is my guiding light and force in this work and live I live as a Plant advocate and guide. Native America Cheyenne Nation elder - Cliff Eaglefeathers; Penobscot Nation elder - Sherri Mitchell; Lakota Nation elder - Tome’ Roubedeaux and more; Adrienne Maree Brown of Emergent Strategy; Jose’ Silva’s Altered States of Consciousness, Burt Hellingers Systemic Constellations, Deep Listening work of Pauline Oliveros, the work of Coherent Thought Sequencing - Dr. Steven Greer; and Blackfoot Nation teachings, the teachings of Plant ancestors themselves and more recently, Catrice M. Jackson of White Spaces Missing Faces and Amy Brown White a Public School Educator.

Why Are We Doing This:
All this work is for making sense of safe and grounded working spaces with Nature impressions and surrendering to ego so true and congruent messages can emerge. It is here where we remember our inter-relationality and reciprocity. Dropping separation, leaning into unity consciousness and living rightly with all beings committed to ecological, racial, and social justice balance.

Our Hopes and Goals:
As a radical wild-crafter and person born of the Earth collectively we encourage and undo colonial domination and oppression. We’re on a inter-species relational path where all are stakeholders at the decision making tables.

Contact Info:
If you’re curious about how to do this in your life, that is, how to bring Nature into our every day living capacities please give us a ring, a call or a text [see below]. Review our 4 day / 32 + hour program “Cultivating Cognitive Agility with Our Plant, Tree and Nature Allies” objectives. See what you think. Write us for more information. Become a trainer in your own community.

Contact: Marguerite at 3moonsisters@gmail.com or call/text her at 607-437-1218.

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