Through the Fire Community Wellness Dinner

Hosted by Hands in the Soil

We are honored to invite you to our first Through the Fire Community Wellness Dinner — a special evening for fire-impacted community members to gather, share a meal, and continue holding one another in care.

This is more than a meal. It is an intentional community experience rooted in good vibes, nourishment, and togetherness. As we continue moving through change and recovery, we offer this gathering as a space to connect, and be nourished around the table.

What to Expect

Guests will be welcomed into a warm, intentional evening centered on nourishment, reflection, and community care. The experience will include time to arrive and settle in, a shared dinner, dessert, and space to connect in a setting created with care for those directly impacted by the fire.

We kindly ask guests to arrive on time so we can begin the evening together.

Guests must be 16+. No kids. No pets.

Meet the Chef

This evening’s dinner is being offered in partnership with Chef Cole Lawson, whose approach honors food as nourishment, memory, and community care.

There is wisdom that lives in the soil.

Long before any of us arrive at a table, the earth has already begun the work of nourishment. It holds memory, grief, and the quiet promise that life will return again. Those who work the land understand this well. Healing rarely arrives all at once. It comes slowly, through care, through patience, and through the steady act of tending what has been broken.

In Altadena, the fires changed the landscape in ways words can hardly hold. Homes were lost and trees that stood for generations turned to ash. What the fire did not take was the deeper truth of this place. The people remain. The community remains. The land itself still carries the instinct to regenerate.

Hands in the Soil reminds us that healing happens together. It happens when we gather, when we care for one another, and when we return our hands to the earth and remember that we belong to it.

As a chef, I believe deeply in the medicine of food — not as an idea, but as a practice. Food grown from the land, prepared with intention, and shared in community carries a power within it. It nourishes the body and restores something in the spirit that loss tries to fracture.

This meal is offered in that spirit. A small act of care rooted in the belief that feeding one another well is one of the oldest forms of healing we have.

May this food nourish you.

May this gathering remind us of our shared resilience.

And may the soil beneath Altadena continue to hold the seeds of what will grow next.

With care,

Chef Cole Lawson | @chefcolelawson

In partnership with Hands in the Soil