Tree Stories LLC:

Creatively Connecting People & Plants

I love people. And I love plants. And people and plants are kind of in this Earth-thing together. After years as a classroom teacher, writer, forester, and naturalist, I want to creatively help connect kids and adults to the magic of plants in their communities. That’s why I’m starting Tree Stories LLC. A few key ideas guide this work:

  • Plants are alive, intelligent, and complex. They’ve been on Earth for awhile. Let’s learn from them and with them.

  • Ecology and plant science can be fun, funny, and sometimes magical. It should never be dry and boring.

  • Developing better relationships to plants enriches our lives.

  • Story-telling and relationships are key to understanding plants (and ourselves). Please note these concepts are borrowed from Indigenous writers and leaders, and I try to use them respectfully as a non-Native.

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Services

  • Tree Walks! Guided tree walks are an interactive mix of story-telling, history, science, and a little comedy. Walks can be organized for organizational events, conferences, fundraising, professional development, festivals, and more. Locations include parks, neighborhoods, and more.

  • School visits and lessons! Provide educational programming, support, training, and standards-aligned lessons to schools, organizations, camps, and educational partners with special focuses on experiential learning with trees & weaving Life Science and English Langauge Arts.

  • Set up interpretive signs, materials, and infrastructure with curricular connections for K-12 school campuses. For example, do you have trees or gardens at your school? Do teachers know how to utilize them for science lessons and units? I can help! Trees are living models for science

  • Plant writing classes for botanical gardens! In these classes, we discuss plant science and philosophy and then expore botanical collections through reflective, sensory writing.

  • Lectures, classes, and talks for students and adults.

  • More services coming! This is all pretty fresh. Please reach out if interested in any of these or if you have other ideas