Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards

"There are ways to grow food crops without poisoning the soil and landscape with chemical pesticides — by relying on the help of birds and bats!"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#birds #bats #FoodCrops #NaturalPestControl #Farming #Ecology #environment https://medium.com/grrlscientist/birds-and-bats-provide-natural-pest-control-to-vineyards-61ce00dfc474

Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards

"There are ways to grow food crops without poisoning the soil and landscape with chemical pesticides — by relying on the help of birds and bats!"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #bats #FoodCrops #NaturalPestControl #Farming #Ecology #environment https://medium.com/grrlscientist/birds-and-bats-provide-natural-pest-control-to-vineyards-61ce00dfc474

Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards

"There are ways to grow food crops without poisoning the soil and landscape with chemical pesticides — by relying on the help of birds and bats!"

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#birds #bats #FoodCrops #NaturalPestControl #Farming #Ecology #environment https://medium.com/grrlscientist/birds-and-bats-provide-natural-pest-control-to-vineyards-61ce00dfc474

Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards

"There are ways to grow food crops without poisoning the soil and landscape with chemical pesticides — by relying on the help of birds and bats!"

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#birds #bats #FoodCrops #NaturalPestControl #Farming #Ecology #environment https://medium.com/grrlscientist/birds-and-bats-provide-natural-pest-control-to-vineyards-61ce00dfc474

Busy, productive weekend 👩‍🌾 Many food crops were transplanted. An acre of beds were prepped for more crops to be transplanted.

#FoodSecurity #SmallFarm #FoodCrops #GrowFood #FarmWork #WorkParty #Food #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Farming #Volunteering

Cherokee Nation Sends Heirloom Seeds To ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault In Norway

"The Cherokee Nation is the first US Tribe to deposit culturally important crop seeds in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard"

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#DoomsdaySeedVault #seeds #FoodCrops #Cherokee #Norway #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/cherokee-nation-sends-heirloom-seeds

Our region had a short sharp extra-deep freeze in the winter and the cherry tree in my yard never really flowered. I miss the tart little juice bombs that are usually just becoming ready now-ish.

Also thinking a lot about #FoodSecurity in a #ClimateChange world.

#UrbanFarming #FoodCrops