Our friends at the Stillwater Amateur Radio Association have set up a Special Event station near Afton east of the Twin Cities Friday through Sunday.

If you're in the area you can visit the station in person and, of course, anyone can work them on the air.

SARA is an outstanding ham radio club with thorough outreach efforts. Next month they'll set up a station in an ice house!

https://www.stcroix360.com/2026/01/ham-radio-operators-to-honor-noted-wwii-chaplain-fr-metcalf-at-belwin-events/

https://radioham.org/remembering-father-george-metcalf-wojh-at-belwin-conservancy/

#HamRadio #Minnesota #LandConservancy

#WellandCommunityOrchard #PollinatorGarden

#CommunityBased #ViewRoyal #bloomscrolling #LifecyclesProject #CommunityStewardship #flowers #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #HeritageOrchard #LandConservancy #LegacyPark #PlantForPollinators #Gardens

Great #volunteers #WorkParty today!
We got lots done together. Orchard has no more fallen fruits for now. We got a bunch of weeding & pruning done too.

Learn more & join us at future orchard work parties or come out for free tours sometime!
https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard/

I met 3 people who are also from Vietnam today too. Julie & her daughter are from South Vietnam - they live in a rental here that's only 5 minutes from our home. Phanh is from North Vietnam & works on a farm in Metchosin. She's moving out to live on the farm soon, with her husband.

I also found out that River, the orchard coordinator, knows my good friend, Lyrica & her partner Talia too. They met at local Queer Crafternoon gatherings. Lyrica regularly attends those & River teaches some crafts at them. I'm going to attend some of them in near future as it's open to LGBTQ2S comrades & a few friends have invited me to go.

#CommunityOrchard #Volunteering #CommunityBased #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #CommunityStewardship #HelpingHands #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #YYJ #FoodSecurity #FruitsForEveryone #OrchardWork #CommunityVolunteers #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #PNW #HeritageOrchard #LandConservancy #LegacyPark #AsianMastodon

Rex Welland was a longtime local resident who loved collecting lots of #HeritageApple species. He spent a lifetime, collecting cuttings & grafting to grow in his large backyard. He donated this land, which was his backyard, as part of #LandConservancy agreement with the Town of View Royal to keep it as a heritage orchard for the community to steward & share.

There's 125 heritage #apple species growing there.

#WellandCommunityOrchard #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #VancouverIsland #LegacyPark #YYJ #Edible #Food #GardeningMastodon #PlantIdentification #CommunityGarden #PlantLovers #botanical #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodSecurity #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #fruits #AppleTrees #CommunityStewarship #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits #CommunityPark #YYJHistory

#IcebergPoint on the south end of #LopezIsland is among 1,000 acres in the #archipelago now #protected under a #ManagementPlan for the #SanJuanIslands National Monument.

Remember the #BarackObama era? When he was president 10 years ago, he signed a #proclamation #establishing the San Juan Islands (SJI) #NationalMonument on March 25.

https://salish-current.org/2023/03/15/management-plan-in-place-as-san-juan-islands-monument-turns-10

#PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #WashingtonState #nature #LandConservancy #conservation #anniversary #SalishSea #biodiversity #Salish