The Commons Call 🐰
SHOW N’ TELL
for garbage people (the good kind).
WED OCT 15th 6pm PST, 5ish min per person
Got scraps? Compost, patched jeans, weird brews, dumpster scores? Bring it. The only rule: it has to be trash (compost counts 😉).
5 minutes to show or tell. No polish, no algorithms, no perfection. Just trash turned into treasure, waste into renewal, and a little shot of #climatehope.
Join us online. Bay Area? Say hi — this may go IRL soon.
email me, say you’re a garbage person, & I’ll send link on OCT 15th 6pm PST
✨ Free, casual, imperfect.
Join the next Commons Call
Wed, Oct 15 · 6pm PST
This isn’t a polished webinar. It’s a monthly show & tell for trash lovers and scrap alchemists. Come hang out, share your weird half-baked projects, and cheer on other garbage people (the good kind).
What to expect:
🐰 Connection — Meet other people turning waste into renewal, swap stories, leave with a little more #climatehope.
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Why the Bunny
🐇 Why the Bunny (and Coffee)
The Velveteen Bean started with compost — coffee grounds from roasteries, rabbit bedding from rescues, scraps pulled from the waste stream and given a second life in soil. Somewhere along the way, the bunny showed up: soft but resilient, multiplying quietly, carrying life forward.I’ve always loved the treasure-hunt of dumpster diving, the weird joy of seeing resource where others see trash. This project is just an extension of that impulse: to care for what’s here, to make it visible, and to have some fun, and see how others are also showing up imperfectly for a low/zero waste future.
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Hi, I’m Maggie.
I used to make shiny campaigns for brands you’d definitely recognize. The polished stuff.
Now I’d rather dig in scraps. The Velveteen Bean is my outlet — part compost pile, part creative playground, part community experiment.
What lights me up? Turning trash into treasure, pulling people together, and making silly, hopeful experiments in joy — even in messy, unraveling times.
Not a brand to buy into. A commons to play in.