GRAFTERS X 2024
March 23rd and 24th
Grafters X 2024 is organized by Lou Goldfinch and Margaretha Haughwout. Our 2024 theme is Anguish and Glory. We draw from Fuller and Goriunova’s conception of glory as moments when the flower is pollinated, moments of fruition, becoming through beauty and mutual interest, and a conception of anguish as the inverse, where “parallel adaptations do not occur and no relations of beauty spring up.”… “As when an animal stamps upon an orchid, and a wasp is killed by out-of-season snow, [the] undreamed logic [of anguish] changes the unfolding of the future.” This year participants are invited to think about the ways anguish and glory permeate their ecological work.
Or, just come trade some scions & have some soup — we can’t wait to see you!
Also check out 1-888-GRRRAFT messages from 2022!
February ’24
All month:
Preparations
In February, we are gathering scionwood and cultivating ruderal rootstock, working on connecting resources across distributed nodes.
– If you have information to share about local food forestry projects, or about related international grafting projects, we would love to feature your projects. We are accepting submissions of art projects, video documentation, talks that are tied to food forestry, guerrilla gardening, grafting, abolitionist landscapes, surviving and collective thriving in the Capitalocene. email info AT guerrillagrafters.net
– If you have questions about grafting, are excited about recent grafts, or want to tell us about how your food forest is going, call us at 1-888-GRRRAFT
March ’24
All month:
Resource Share
Throughout March we invite our network to share what tree-related antics you are up to by calling our 800 number (1-888-GRRRAFT) and sharing images of your grafts through this form [BETA].
March 02
3:00-4:00pm Grafting Workshop with Hamilton Gardener’s Club. Email info@guerrillagrafters.net or mcoluzzi@colgate.edu for details
Basics of tree grafting introduced, along with hands-on opportunities to practice grafting.
March 22
4:00pm Greenhouse Ribbon Cutting and Tree Grafting Workshop at the Colgate Community Garden on Broad Street
Basics of tree grafting introduced, along with hands-on opportunities to practice grafting.
March 23
10:30a-12:00p Tree Walk with Greg Owens, Village Forest Commissioner and DEC Forester
Meet at the Food Forest Studio at Schupf Studio Arts Center
11:00am-4:00pm Scionwood and seed Share at Paul J Schupf Studio Art Center (54 Montgomery St., Hamilton, N.Y.)
Scion and Seed exchange, workshops, and related eco-art events in Schupf Garage Bay, adjacent to the Food Forest Studio in Hamilton Village. Coffee and hot soup provided.
Bring scion wood and seeds to share, or come for new varietals for the bioregion. Workshops on this day will be posted in February
1:00-4:00pm 15-minute Grafting demos every hour on the hour
3:30pm Graft living trees in the Food Forest Studio
March 24
CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
11:00am-4:00pm Scionwood and seed Share Button City (887 Spurr St., New Berlin, N.Y.)
Scion and Seed exchange, workshops, and related eco-art events. Coffee and hot soup provided.
Bring scion wood and seeds to share, or come for new varietals for the bioregion. Workshops on this day will be posted here in February
1:00-4:00pm 15-minute Grafting demos every hour on the hour
3:30pm Graft the old apple tree on site
GXC partners include the Southern Madison Heritage Trust and the Village of Hamilton Forest Commission.