Ms. Que Banh#POC #NatureNerds united 💚✌️💚
TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀#GarryOak #foliage buds are starting to unfurl. Did you know that Garry Oaks are considered a #KeystoneSpecies of trees? Over 100 flora & fauna species depend on Garry oak trees & their ecosystems for survival.
More info on Garry oaks:
https://www.garryoak.info/learn/
#VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #NativeTrees #TreeLovers #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #TreeInfo #MightyOaks #nature #trees #Spring #ecosystems #biodiversity
I've been writing more hate mail to Saanich council for removing several Garry oak ecosystem covenants so capitalist developers can take over more formerly protected ecosystems 🤬
Dadbod AntiFa@PhoenixSerenity What does “covenant” mean to them, exactly?
@beckett Nothing, I guess - when money is their higher priority.
Today's educational community nature walk was so fun & amazing! First time that me & Jada have attended a community nature walk where almost every person there, including the event educators/facilitators were from marginalized communities! Everyone who attended except for 2 people were also ND. I was asked where to buy my DIY autistic hat by several folks 💜
We made a few new local friends, while on the walk! Earlier on, I picked up a shy trans woman who also couldn't find her way to meeting spot. We walked around with her & then she rode with us, after we made contact with event facilitators 🙂
About 50% of folks who attended were from LGBTQ2S communities. About 60% of folks who attended have POC ancestral backgrounds 💗
I ran into 2 POC folks who have met me at community orchard & at North African/POC community events. They're like: Que! You get around everywhere 🤣😂
I'm like - I get around a lot of places, with the best kinda fellow local community building kindreds 😊 Which is true ✌️
I'm going to connect more with the guy from India. To discuss working with him to bring more #CulturalCrops from his native lands & start growing more of them here. I'm huge on increasing #FoodSecurity for all & we have a lot of #GlobalSouth #diaspora here so growing more cultural food crops is big in my books.
Also, with accelerated #ClimateChange - it's good to look at cultural food crops that can withstand not getting a lot of water.
He is part of a local Indian cricket team & they're interested in food security projects here 😀💚
He met me at community orchard.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝The gardening group that I'm in did a special exhibition of cultural crops from all over -- some associated with our location, some that were family crops of people in the group. Here's one from India:
https://www.growfoodnorthampton.org/living-history-25/#bitter-gourd
@richpuchalsky So awesome! Yay!!
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Bryan (he/him) 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈@PhoenixSerenity What a beautiful place with beautiful people!
@resplendent606 It was so wonderful!!