Backyard food harvest to make soup.
Sui Choi & Chinese mustard greens 👩‍🌾

#FoodSecurity #AsianGreens #AsianVeggies #harvest #GrowFoodNotLawns #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #GrowItEatIt #Homegrown #food #AsianMastodon

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 💚

#gardening #GrowFoodNotLawns #Saanich #VictoriaBC #Hoe #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #AntiLawns #GrowFlowersNotLawns

To the compost. #SwissChard. Only the most robust ones are being kept in the plot.

#Vegetables #GrowFoodNotLawns

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 🐝🦋

#landscaping #GrowFoodNotLawns #GrowMedicineNotLawns #GrowFlowersNotLawns #AntiLawns #SoilRemediation #biodiversity #gardening #Rewilding #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Green #SolarPunk

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 plants🪴We'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 💚👩‍🌾👨‍🌾👏

#GrowFood #CommunityBuilding #CommunityGarden #CommunityPark #CommunitySpaces #Greenspaces #VanIsle #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodEquity #Gardens #Nonprofits #ClimateAction #CommunityWork #BritishColumbia #Canada #GrowPlants #Grassroots

Front yard #food.

#gardening #FoodSecurity #Saanich #FoodGardeners #botanical #FoodPlants #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #ContainerGardening #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #PlantLovers #GrowItEatIt #GrowFoodNotLawns #homegrown #Wsanec #onions #peppers #ginger