This workshop will showcase some of the key restoration projects at the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve: demonstrating six years of working toward restoring native First Foods, pollinator and grassland habitat. In this part 1 of 3, we’ll showcase the occultation methods used for replacing the invasive pasture grass with native grasses and forbs. Participants will gain hands on experience with occultation and native seed collection.

All are welcome to come enjoy the golden hour as it befalls the golden grasses and blue hillsides. Explore what it means to make art as part of the story of a healing landscape. We will share about the meadow and creek restoration demonstration site and have thoughtful discussion of the meaning of restoring a native landscape. You will be inspired by fall colors, birds, peace, and the unique landscape and the community that stewards it.

Join us at Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve to take dedicated time to read social justice oriented books and then discuss learned concepts with others while we spread native plants seeds in our native plant gardens spaces.

Join Tara Laidlaw of the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy and VMEP Director Jeanine Moy for a morning of exploration, creativity, and contemplation. We'll meander the meadow and follow the creek before landing in a comfy spot to reflect using a simple journaling framework.

Join us at Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve to take dedicated time to read social justice oriented books and then discuss learned concepts with others while we weed native plant gardens.

Escape the valley heat and head for the hills! Join us for a leisurely walk and seed collection event, we’ll share flower, grass, and seed ID knowledge and provide collection bags - join in support of native plant restoration, no experience needed!

Join us and friends from Southern Oregon Land Conservancy for beautiful surroundings, good company, and do a good deed for the land. It's our 4th annual starthistle removal…come help close in on the finish!

All are welcome. Volunteers will enjoy the beauty of the Preserve in the evening and have opportunities to learn about native plants of the Cascade-Siskiyou, their pollinators, and human-connections. Native grass and flower seeds will be stored for fall restoration planting in restored meadow plots and demonstration garden areas.

Take a field trip out of the studio, and explore the day’s theme “art in full bloom" and what it means to make art as part of the story of a healing landscape. The end of May is a prime time to visit the meadow in its full green-spring-glory and see colorful blooms. We will share about the meadow and creek restoration demonstration site and have free time to get creative!

Join us for an inspiring evening, enjoy a photography walk, and choose to participate in the optional follow-up workshop and photography showcase. Golden hours is one of the most beautiful times of the day and mid-May means you will immerse yourself in the early spring buds, blooms, birds, and butterflies of the meadow!

All are welcome to ‘be like beavers’, and help us gather willow stakes! We will gather willows along headwater creeks of the Rogue River to utilize toward restoration techniques to restore the creek channel previously eroded by grazing and down-cutting associated with lack of vegetation.

Join our esteemed panelists for an intergenerational conversation exploring themes of cultural heritage, land stewardship, and tribal sovereignty, as well as the different ways Land Back is happening now all around us.

Join us for a 2 hour educational panel discussion with Tribal voices on how to meaningfully engage in land justice for Tribal communities.

Kicking off the new year by gathering community, talking about biocultural restoration, hearing from artists as thought leaders, and collectively dreaming of a better future.

All are welcome to come and engage community in discussion, art, and visioning under the theme of "Art for What Comes Next" hosted by the fantastic community hub that is Talent Maker City for a dynamic presentation of art, interactive discussion, and space to be creative.

Join us for our fifth year of transforming the meadow from stands of invasive pasture grass to diverse native grasses and flowers, aka pollinator habitat (like restaurants for pollinators!). All are welcome to join, no experience necessary.

All are welcome to join in this collaboration with Cultivate Oregon, supported by Jackson County Soil and Water District. We will discuss practical and organic ways to rid unwanted weeds, improve soils, and prepare ground for native plant seeding. You will tour our established meadow restoration plots and get to participate in the preparation of seeding areas + native plant seeding. No experience necessary, supplies and snacks provided.

We are celebrating 6 years of meadow restoration, community building, and you! All are welcome to join - whether it is your first time at Vesper Meadow, or you are a seasoned community member. Bask in the beauty of the meadow in early autumn, learn about our latest projects, listen to some tunes, enjoy good food and company!

Volunteer fence removal collaboration with Southern Oregon Land Conservancy and Vesper Meadow Education Program. All are welcome to join at the scenic Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve for this community effort to restore habitat and make travel more safe for wildlife!

Red Earth Descendants will be hosting a Women’s Talking Circle at Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve. This Talking Circle is open to women-bodied people and those who identify as women.

Jeanine Moy of Vesper Meadow will share fantastical but true stories from several years of community organizing for biocultural restoration, and personal anecdotes from growing a close relationship to a special place. You might just want to ask a beaver about his feelings of returning home after 20 years away from the creek he has loved... or find yourself intrigued by a rare local butterfly the size of your fingernail. And for sure you will want to talk to the fields of Camas lilies who have waited patiently for over a century for their tenders to return…. 

Guided by an ethic of reciprocity and nurturing human-land connection, our seed collection events offer a chance to support our continuing 6+ years of restoration efforts .

In partnership with Rhianna from Verdant Phoenix, we will gather native plant seeds and discuss Indigenous gardening and land tending context.

Come spend a summer morning in the meadow, collecting native seeds for First Foods by hand and helping restore this unique high-elevation ecosystem.

Calling all artists, writers, creatives! Join us for and informal day of inspiration and art making in midsummer…as the most beautiful (and least hot!) time of the day.

A Healing Landscapes Program event in collaboration with Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. "As we heal the land, the land heals us." Join us for a day of giving to the land and restoring the self.

Join special guests from Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, and VM Program Director Jeanine Moy and spend a day during the peak of wildflower season to collect seeds of species that are larval host grasses and nectar flower plants for the Mardon Skipper butterfly.

Southern Oregon Indian Education District (SOESD) hosts an annual Native Games event for SOESD families, youth, and community. This year Native Games is at Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve!

Join Red Earth Descendants and Vesper Meadow Education Program for a fun native plant identification walk. Bring a dish to share for RED's seasonal gathering potluck at the meadow!