About Fruition Seeds
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Fruition Seeds started as a small regional seed company grounded in care for land, seed, and community. With success, it grew into a multimillion dollar business, but as it did, co-founders Petra Page-Mann and Matthew Goldfarb found themselves questioning the transactional structures surrounding seeds and agriculture. Rather than pursuing growth through conventional business models, they began experimenting with sliding-scale offerings, seed gifting, collaborative stewardship, and events that centered learning and relationship over commerce. This gradual evolution reflected a deeper conviction: that seeds are kin. They are shared cultural and ecological inheritance, not products to be owned or controlled.
In recent years, Fruition has moved even further toward gift-guided practice, stepping away from for-profit business, traditional employment structures and transactional sales. They still grow and distribute regionally adapted seed – but now they do so via community gatherings, collective tending, and trust-based exchanges. Their work is not presented as a replicable model but as a lived exploration — one shaped by grief, uncertainty, and hope — of what it might mean to cultivate agriculture beyond market logics. Events like The Gift of Seed offer a tangible glimpse into this evolving relational economy, inviting participants to practice generosity, mutual aid, and shared responsibility in ways that are grounded, joyful, imperfect, and deeply human.
About otherWise
otherWise is a non-profit cosmolocal learning and practice community dedicated to exploring relational ways of living, learning, and organizing in times of profound social and ecological change. Through courses, community gatherings, creative collaborations, and place-rooted experiments, otherWise brings people together to reckon with what is ending, commit to entangled liberation, and engage in the practical and spiritual work of reVillaging. Rather than offering fixed answers or prescriptive models, otherWise creates containers where people can practice new ways of relating and responding — to one another, to land, and to the many beings and systems that sustain life.
About Hard-Pressed Community Printshop
Hard-Pressed is a community print and arts space in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom that centers accessible, hands-on creative practice as a pathway to connection and belonging. Rooted in traditions of printmaking, DIY culture, and collaborative learning, Hard-Pressed hosts workshops, open studio sessions, and public gatherings that invite people of all ages and backgrounds to make, experiment, and learn together. By fostering shared creative experiences and nurturing local relationships, Hard-Pressed helps sustain a culture where art, community, and everyday life remain intertwined.