So what is a Plant Pioneer?
A Plant Pioneers, recognizes there is subtle, intelligent plant activity that is yet to be fully understood. Humans do hold an understanding of this language in an ancient place. Our DNA? Possibly. For now, through the judicious use of delicate tools and traditional ecological knowledge we explore intelligent plant activity in relation to human-plant relationships.
What are we doing?
Our mission aims to support some sort of Earth restoration through listening to the voice of Nature, plants and trees for solutions. Through encounter-based programs which cultivate bioregional and traditional ecological knowledge and research, we demonstrate just how plants are communicating with us humans. By opening our sensory gate channels to this listening, our entire life becomes a participatory living landscape. Its about reciprocal dignity, integrity and respect. Its about being one whole, not apart from each other. Its about truly stewarding for the wellness of the whole. One where we treat plants and trees not as arbitrary and inert living systems but rather as having a rightful place in the scheme of things, as our existence.
One of our main features of exploration is through plant frequency signals using electronics that liberate their ‘mind’ for a doorway for dialoguing. This electronic medium? Music of the Plants. Go here for details.
How the electronics work
Two wires from a pre-programmed synthesizer are connected to a plant, one onto the plant’s leaf, the other in the soil.
What are we hearing?
We are hearing electrical plant frequencies aka impulses.
Music of the Plants is a synthesizer that is registers these frequencies such as a biofeedback device would do, liberating a plants world and assigning musical notes to each of the plants electrical variations. After some moments after first connecting a plant or tree to this device, sounds can be heard coming from the synthesizer that are generated by the plant or tree. Each plant impulse is assigned a specific note per specific impulse. What is heard are sounds that, before this electronic device, have never been heard before because of plants’ inaudible frequencies but are now audible because of Music of the Plants. Interestingly, it is often the first time for a plant or tree to be hearing their sounds in this way too. And so, each of us who work with Music of the Plants synthesizer always makes a point to the plant or tree or other woody or green being that, ‘this is you making these sounds.’
What are we finding?
There’s compelling evidence that plants are responding to their environment and us in ways we did not anticipate. Not only do plants “communicate” with insects, from our experience, plants and trees are appearing to respond to humans and other environmental activities in ways we believe must be further investigated.
Why are we doing this?
We are doing this for two reasons: we do this because we want to get this awareness to everyone. And two, we are reaching out to students, entry-level biologists, botanists, environmentalists, artists, and plant scientists, musicians, and technologists,…everyone to investigate plant sentience in every possible way. Why? It’s the way of First Nations Peoples; its the way of respect. They create and make life possible for us. Its time to recognize them and give back.
And the state of the planet is demonstrating its time too.
How you can help…
Volunteer in bringing these presentations to young people.
Spread the word, join our classes and then, go walk the talk and talk the walk.