We’re taking a break from the heavy stuff this month. Instead, we’ll be talking about a ridiculous (but somehow compelling?) show called Sons of Anarchy.

We’ll be talking through panic/anxiety, sharing strategies, and maybe building a map out of crisis.

We’re going to talk about how shame shows up in our lives, put that shame in the bucket and kick it.

We’re going to talk about how shame shows up in our lives, put that shame in the bucket and kick it.

We’re having an activity based meeting this month. We’ll be practicing the art of tapping into yourself to focus on goals or objectives--reaching the calm while in the storm.

We’re talking about eating from your garden, salads and more. This is for all those aspiring, experienced and beginner gardeners. All levels are welcome and appreciated. Let’s share stories, experiences and especially, recipes.

This month we’re talking about Community Land Trusts and Land Back. One is a movement started in the Civil Rights era to collectively own and provide affordable land to live on for communities of color. The other, the unalienable right for indigenous people to live on the lands stolen from them. Can these movements work together? Or are they at odds?

We’ll be sharing our experiences with garden bugs and trading strategies on how to deal with them.

Join us for some good old-fashioned conversation

We’ll discuss how to find other open discussion spaces or to build one if there aren’t any around.

Imagine a place where the scars your mind bears are treated kindly, allowed to heal in peace. In community. That is what we will discuss at our next meeting: a blueprint on how to take the stigma away from mental health for one another.

We’ll be answering the question, what’s your culture? Many, many people have tried to parse, define and collate what that word means but there’s no such limitation for us. Decide for yourself what it is and share what you’d like. It’s a word, so we each get decide what it means :)

We’ll be talking about native plants and what they mean for the well-being of land and people. How many of the plants that cities, towns and governments grow around us are an illusion of colonization?

We’re still talking about making change through community in October. We’ll be focusing on those important personal relationships/groups across lines and borders so come with stories! Especially successful ones ;)

We live in ‘communities’ and are maybe part of some by default. Some, we have made on purpose. But how did we do that? Can we expand that? What effect could more connections like that have?

We at the Desert Salon have no interest in selling you on the fountain of youth. Pretty sure that Ponce guy died for it. It does make you wonder, what about our world isn’t keeping us alive? What are we missing? For August’s Salon, we’ll be learning about Blue Zones: places in the world with high numbers of folks who live to their 100s.

We’ll be sharing our mental health coping strategies in June. Desert Salon isn’t a therapy space nor facilitated by a mental health professional, but it can be therapeutic to hold space for each other and pool our resources.

We’ll be sharing stories of gardening, preserving, surviving, and sharing. No previous gardening experience required! Bring what whatever crunchy hippie knowledge you’ve got and let’s see what we can learn from each other.

We’ll be sharing stories of gardening, preserving, surviving, and sharing. No previous gardening experience required! Bring what whatever crunchy hippie knowledge you’ve got and let’s see what we can learn from each other.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.

The Desert Salon is not a class: it rejects the roles of teacher and student. The Desert Salon is radical: it rejects the divisions that the world makes between us based on skin, ableism, sex, gender, or class. Past meetings have discussed things as massive as the the Imperialist White-Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchy and as local as water price changes. Being a radical is not a requirement, but you just might be inspired.