Indigenous Water Wisdom

04/15/2026

Happy Environmental Professionals Day!

If you are lucky enough to have a water protector or earth warrior in your life, take a moment to thank them for their work. We need people who have the passion, skill, and training now more than ever!

Also- If you work in the Tribal Environmental field consider picking up some merch from War Paint Studios! Indigenous water protectors are truly super heroes!

02/05/2026

I'm one of the teachers for this extraordinary course.
I took my Permaculture Design Certification from Penny Livingston 14 years ago. Taking this course changed the course of my life. I love my work with water and communities that bloomed out of theories and techniques I learned with Penny.
If you're wondering how you can invest in your own sustainable future, check out this course.

6-month live cohort with 20+ world-class teachers. Enrollment closes Feb 17.

02/02/2026

Winter hibernation is ending and I'm happy to invite you to be a part of Wild Remembering with me.
The Wild Remembering Permaculture workshop series is an exciting and accessible way for people to learn practical tools for cultivating a more regenerative way of living in urban spaces like Las Vegas. Wild Remembering Permaculture workshops are designed to teach the essentials of the methodology of permaculture design, practical techniques for cultivating more healthy ecosystems in urban environments, and create a space for the reweaving of the village to support a more interconnected living community here in Las Vegas.
The first class is an Introduction to Permaculture & Wild Remembering. This introductory class is a 3-hour classroom experience that includes both permaculture learning, practice, and village building.
Are you interested in learning how to live more sustainably as we cultivate community together? Let's get wild!
Contact me if you would like to host a class at your location.

11/13/2025

11/12/2025

11/11/2025

Stewards of the Earth: Composting Weekend

Learning the art of composting is stewardship in action. We take food waste that would go to the landfill and turn it into living soil. We create closed-loop systems that need less input. And we practice turning what’s spent into nourishment for future growth.

Saturday 11/15 | Dennis Wichter – Las Vegas Worm Farm
Discover in-bed worm composting that thrives in our desert climate—from setup to feeding to harvesting nutrient-rich castings. Collaborate with the smallest of earth’s stewards and see how worms quietly transform scraps into abundance. Feel inspired? Bring a soil sample from your yard so Dennis can show the differences in soil composition and why it matters.

Sunday 11/16 | C.J. Kelley – Cooperative Extension
Demystify composting at home or in the office with easy, accessible methods. Using the weekend’s food waste, C.J. will show how anyone can turn scraps into soil, no matter your space.

♻️ Viva La Composting is generously donating bins for food waste all weekend! Bring your own kitchen scraps (“if it grows, it goes”) and watch them become fertile soil. Please skip meat, greasy items, bones, or waxy/plastic wrappers.

Let’s turn waste into wisdom, decay into renewal, and endings into beginnings. 🌎

Event RSVP:
https://www.facebook.com/events/806146445372223/

10/15/2025

We invite you to gather with us for a talking circle to explore the lasting impacts of colonization, loss of language, and cultural erasure, while also illuminating the power of tradition, land stewardship, and spiritual renewal as forces of healing. This circle is open to everyone in the community. We are all impacted by the lasting generational impacts of systems of oppression.
The talking circle is an ancient indigenous social technology where we gather in an egalitarian way to work out how to live in harmony with each other. When we gather, we bring our open hearts, our wisdom of deep listening, our willingness to recognize what we share, and our truth telling voices. In this circle, every voice is given honor and space. Please join us as we deepen our cooling pool of trust that will lay the groundwork for a peaceful future.

📅 Saturday, October 18th
🕓 11am-12:30pm
📍 The Giving Garden
5502 Blackthorn Dr 89142
This will be a space for remembrance, reflection, story-sharing, and collective breath.
Share this with community. See you there❤️
For all our relations🪶

10/02/2025

Join me in partnership with Solidarity Fridge and Cosmic Maya
at for this beautiful and powerful film showing at Winchester-Dondero Cultural Center this Saturday at 1pm. Post-film discussion and integration ceremony with Navajo Environmental Steward, Carmen Gonzales and Moderator Cesi Ortiz with Cosmic Maya.

Note for Community Care
This film does not have a formal viewer rating. Eternal Song reveals both the deep wounds of colonization and the ancestral wisdom that guides us toward healing. Honoring is remembering and we will hold the space of truth-telling and collective care.
Every generation is part of the healing. Every song, every ceremony, and every step we take is a reminder that our cultures are alive and our stories and songs continue.

Let's remember our ancestral medicine together.

See you this Saturday, October 4th

07/11/2025

Join us for a special screening of We Are Guardians at the Beverly Theater in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 12 at 5:30 pm. This powerful documentary follows Indigenous protectors on the frontlines of deforestation in the Amazon.

Come learn about indigenous resilience and restoration and stay for a community Q&A with local leaders in environmental stewardship including Victoria Flores of The Solidarity Fridge Carmen Gonzales of Indigenous Water Wisdom and Professor Ben Leffel.

Las Vegas friends, if you care about clean water, clean air, food sovereignty, and climate resilience, this film is for you. The fight to protect the Amazon is deeply connected to us here in the Southwest. What happens in this ecosystem affects us all.

We Are Guardians shows what’s at stake for all of us. Watch, learn, act. Get Tickets Now!