Land Stewardship Workshop: Pinyon-Juniper Care with Athena Beshur

Saturday, March 7th | 10:00am – 12:00pm MT
FREE to attend; In-person only
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Mountain Cloud’s campus sits on over 20 acres of gorgeous juniper-pinyon woodland, nestled right in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. As part of our larger land stewardship and Ecodharma programming, we’re engaging local experts to learn how we can best take care of the land we’re on, even in the midst of climate and ecological crises.

This educational, hands-on workshop, led by Athena Beshur from Seeds of Wisdom, is focused on caring for our pinyon and juniper trees. We’ll learn how to identify common issues, such as pinyon need scale, mistletoe, drought stress, and bark beetle, and how to address these issues to best support the trees and the ecology they’re a part of. Athena will also demonstrate some of the solutions like hard water spray and trimming, and we’ll have the chance to apply our learning together on the land.

Please wear clothes appropriate for being outside for two hours and shoes for walking around the land. We recommend wearing layers and bringing long sleeves, hats, work gloves, sunscreen, and a notebook (if you like to take notes).

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About Athena

Athena Beshur, principal designer and owner of Seeds of Wisdom, is an International Society of Arboriculture certified urban forestry professional and certified arborist. She holds a Master of Natural Resources with graduate certificate emphasis in Urban Forestry.  She uses native and adaptable plants to add to the vibrancy of place-based design.  Her designs emphasize enhanced habitat and support trees using stormwater.

Public works include management of the Santa Fe River corridor on several reaches including most recently adjacent Alto Park.

She designed Phase 1 of the Guadalupe Credit Union landscape at Academy and Airport Road, the Stations of the Cross Prayer Garden and Jardin de los Santos at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, and the Alameda Rain Garden at El Alamo and Cathedral Place. She co-designed the Covid-19 Memorial Garden.

Currently, she is leading the development of the post-fire Las Vegas, NM Urban Forestry Management Plan and directing the installation of the Pueblos Del Sol Park rain garden.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University and enjoys playing the clarinet.