Sage & thyme seedlings, white currant & some heirloom tomato starters from the plant sale at Camosun College.
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Morning transplanting is done ๐ฉโ๐พ๐๐
There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it ๐
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More #strawberry flowers are out & a #mustard plant, growing out of my rock garden area ๐๐
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Backyard food harvest to make soup.
Sui Choi & Chinese mustard greens ๐ฉโ๐พ
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Another part of backyard that I've been successful doing #soil remediation work on. It's now healthy enough to sow more food/native/groundcover seeds ๐
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To the compost. #SwissChard. Only the most robust ones are being kept in the plot.
Update on my longterm backyard soil remediation project & trying to replace lawn with alternative groundcover/edible & medicinal plants/wildflowers. This is part of the patch that I did cardboard/seaweed/leaf mulching on last year. It now has mixed #clovers & #DeadNettles & #chickweed. These will all attract more pollinators, when they flower too ๐๐ฆ
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This photo was sent to me via text.
It's from my friend, Jeff, whom I originally met off of Mastodon, back in 2022. We met in person in 2023 & exchanged plants๐ชดWe've stayed friends over the years. We are working towards similar community building goals, in separate areas of the island. Ideally, would love to have a full food security, localized food systems 'spine', running West-East/South-North, across #VancouverIsland.
Jeff lives up island with his wife & kids. He also works in #nonprofit #FoodSecurity & #environmental #stewardship. He works for #Greenways #LandTrust in #CampbellRiver :
https://www.greenwaystrust.ca/projects/food-security
This shows some of the work they've done at Maple Park Community Garden in partnership with #Strathcona Regional District. They acquired that land to steward/grow, earlier this year ๐๐ฉโ๐พ๐จโ๐พ๐
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I picked some more #apples from our big tree in the backyard. There's about 25-30 lbs of apples left to harvest for this year - I'll get that done later in the week ๐
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Ms. Que Banh