From Burn to Bloom: Reimagining a Resilient Landscape

Why Attend

La Cañada Flintridge, Altadena, Pasadena, and the surrounding foothill communities, sit at the very edge of the San Gabriel Mountains. Here we live with fire risk, drought, and other extreme weather conditions. “Living on the edge” means we live, work, and play at the intersection of wild nature – and our collaboration here is of the utmost importance.

Are you curious about:

• Soil health and remediation?
• What is Zone 0 and will these regulations impact me?
• Landscape and planting for fire recovery?
• How to heal your community today and prepare it for the future?

This half-day event brings together homeowners, architects, designers, policymakers, and community members for an urgent and inspiring exploration of resilience through landscape design. We’ll discuss what we can do together today, and things we should consider for the future to reimagine our homes and neighborhoods as whole ecosystems that heal and protect us, while allowing Nature to thrive.

Through personal stories, lived experience, and grounded ecological strategies, we will explore ways to create green, nourishing, and regenerative foothill communities.

What You’ll Experience

🌿 Learn from fire survivors and regenerative landscape designers who turned preparation into resilience.

🌿 Challenge outdated narratives of “defensible space” and “fuel modification” that separate us from Nature.

🌿 Explore whole-system practices: water harvesting, soil-building, plant guilds, microclimate creation, and more.

🌿 Hear from experts on proposed Zone 0 policies, trees, soil remediation, and ecosystems as allies in fire and drought resilience.

🌿 Connect with neighbors, land stewards, and leaders who want to design a regenerative future together.

Takeaways

This event is about relational and ecological preparation for the present and the future. With the land and with each other we can heal and protect the living systems that sustain us and our communities.

You'll leave with:
✅ Practical strategies to protect your home and community
✅ New ways of thinking about risk, resilience, and renewal
✅ A deeper sense of connection to the land we live on
✅ Inspiration to act, collaborate, and reimagine what thriving looks like here, together

Agenda

From Burn to Bloom: Reimagining a Resilient Landscape
Shawn Maestretti & Leigh Adams

Zone 0 and the Importance of Tree Canopy: Rethinking Risk & Resilience
Stephanie Landregan

Living on the Edge: Fire-Ready Communities & Ecotone Design
Shawn Maestretti

Soil Preparation & Remediation as Fire Strategy
Leigh Adams & Lynn Fang

Panel Discussion: Designing the Next Chapter Together
Led by Pamela Dreyfuss

Lunch & Networking
Lunch is included in the cost of your ticket, plus, an optional tour of the native putting green garden

Tickets

Price includes admission to all sessions and lunch.

• Early Bird: Guests Impacted by Recent Fire $ 5.00
• Early Bird: General Public $15.00
• After 10/25: Guests Impacted by Recent Fires $10.00
• After 10/25: General Public After 10/25: $25.00

Speakers & Hosts

Shawn Maestretti | Landscape Architect, Certified Arborist, Founder of Studio Petrichor, and Co-Founder of Poly/Ana

Leigh Adams | Artist, Landscape Designer at Studio Petrichor, and Co-Founder Poly/Ana

Photography by: Stella Kalinina

Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti are regenerative landscape advocates and educators. Together, they founded Poly/Ana, a non-profit organization that invites communities to build relationships with land through hands-on workshops that educate people about ecological literacy, fire resilience, and poetic restoration.

Poly/Ana's talks and workshops are as soulful as they are practical—braiding systems thinking, ancestral memory, and design justice into every conversation. Both Leigh and Shawn have lived through wildfire loss, and both chose to stay, listen to the soil, and begin again.

Their partnership blends feminine and masculine approaches, professional design, community healing, technical fluency, and story-driven insight. Whether they’re walking through a garden, leading a workshop, or holding space for policy conversations, Leigh and Shawn offer more than knowledge—they guide people into deeper connection with land, memory, and belonging. Their offerings restore not only soil, but our sense of relationship to place, each other, and to what endures.

Learn more at www.thepolyana.org.

Lynn Fang, MS | Soil scientist working at the intersection of community composting, regenerative farming, and habitat restoration.

Lynn Fang, MS is a community soil scientist with over a decade of experience in ecological design, composting, soil health testing and research, and community education. Since the fire, she has focused on supporting families with soil contaminant testing and bioremediation. She brings an integrated, ecological, and community-oriented approach to soil health. Through the use of nature's toolbox of minerals, microbes, and plants, healing the land is possible.

Stephanie Landregan, MsPM, FASLA | Director of Altadena Green, Landscape Architect

Stephanie Landregan, MsPM, FASLA is a Landscape Architect and Director of Altadena Green. For 17 years Stephanie Landregan, FASLA, was the Director of the Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Programs at UCLA Extension. Her areas of teaching include natural systems design, green infrastructure storm water design, community facilitation, water conservation design and installation, and pollinator design. Previously as the Chief Landscape Architect for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, Stephanie worked for nine years in the Wildlife Urban Interface (WUI) in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

In February 2025 she supported the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Fire-Safety Recovery initiated by Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. In June of this year, Stephanie became the Director of Altadena Green, a grassroots organization of volunteer landscape professionals who have deep connections to the community and have coordinated efforts to preserve trees and share resources for residents as they embark on the process of bringing Altadena back to life. Stephanie is one of two So California Directors with the California Council of ASLA.

Ms. Landregan is a registered licensed landscape architect in the State of California, 4093 and a LEED Accredited Professional BD+C. She holds a Bachelor of Art from the University of Kentucky in 3-Dimensional Design, and a Master of Science in Project Management from UW Platteville.

Learn more at www.altadenagreen.org.