Planet Earth Observatory: Look Grow Heal

10/22/2025

Join us for Listen to the Otherworld Speak: A Celebration of Life and Death in the Soil! Saturday November 1st, 5-8pm in Arlington Garden Pasadena🌿🪾🪱🪲🍄

Halfway between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, we gather to celebrate the soil and all the magical critters that live within it. Linda Ravenswood and her band of masked storytellers and poets will guide us through an evening of getting to know the critters who turn life into death in the soil ✨

Activities will include:
🐛 Soil critter costume party
🍄‍🟫 Poetry & performance by your favorite soil critters
🌀 Soil art & resources
🎶 Music by Compost Jam and
🔬Live microscopy projections by and
🌝 and more!

Soil critter costumes and masks are highly encouraged! Ticket link in bio💫

10/21/2025

Join us November 1st for our 2nd Annual Soil Celebration! Come and check out our bug zoo with critters who bring life in our soil and protect our crops. agriculture

10/20/2025

As nights grow longer and leaves fall, our attention draws downward Jin to the process of life and death in the soil. Join poet and performance artist Linda Ravenswood and friends as they call on the critters who live in the soil for guidance on how to care for each other and Mother Earth.

10/17/2025

Our friend mycologist Aaron Tupac of Exploring the Mycroverse will be tabling at our upcoming Halloween event to celebrate soil microorganisms! Come join us at the Arlington Gardens Nov 1st and bring some fungi (BYOF🍄) and let’s look at them under the microscope! 🍄‍🟫🐛🎃 (all photos credited to Aaron Tupac 🫶)

10/17/2025

Nematodes play an important role in nutrient cycling in agricultural soils. Some can be incredibly destructive to a number of crops. Some are guaranteed to give you the creeps! Planet Earth Observatory has been invited to Dr.Bao-Lam Huynh and his team of researchers at UC Riverside’s Department of Nematology to promote their aphid and nematode resistant long beans and cowpeas at their event on Oct22. We’ll be bringing two recipes to sample. Stay tuned.

10/17/2025

“Samhain, the last gleanings before the lean months come in.
The last glimpse of autumn’s bounty before the Cailleach reveals her face.” — Grace Wells

The sacred festival of Samhain (pronounced “sow-win”) marks autumn’s passing into the cold, dark winter months of the Celtic harvest calendar, symbolizing nature’s cycle of life, death and rebirth. Felling the leaves from the trees, Cailleach, the veiled embodiment of winter, ushers in the decay necessary for all regrowth to occur. 🍂

On Saturday, November 1, Planet Earth Observatory invites you to discover the macro- and microorganisms that enrich our soil. From 5 – 8 PM at , join us for a symbiotic evening of poetry, music, storytelling and more!

Click the link in bio for tickets!

10/16/2025

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/listen-to-the-otherworld-speak-a-celebration-of-life-and-death-in-the-soil-tickets-1553947451659?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/04/2025

Get creepy at Planet Earth Observatory’s Second Annual Soil Critter Celebration on Nov 1st at Arlington Garden in Pasadena. Storytelling, poetry, music and microbes interact during an original performance, “Listen to the Underworld Speak.” Other tantalizing treat: a soil critter petting zoo, a Fungal Jungle, and Darwin’s Worm Farm. The soil will@never look the same!

02/15/2023

01/28/2023

Join Rose Fairely from Plant Friends on a walk in Griffith Park to explore what we might we learn from native plant communities about growing healthy food? How can we create garden ecosystems that support ourselves & our more-than-humxn kin!

We are grateful and honored that Rose is making this event a benefit for Planet Earth Observatory


Registration required! Sliding scale and no one turned away for lack of funds.
More details here:
https://www.becomingmedicine.org/

“When agriculture output is measured in terms of “Health per Acre” and “Nutrition per Acre” instead of “Yield per Acre,” biodiverse ecological systems have a much higher output. This should be the strategy for protecting the livelihoods of farmers as well as the right to food and right to health of all our people” - Dr. Vandana Shiva , “Organic Solutions to Hunger and Malnutrition”