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#CoastSalish woman with ducks & salmon. A #PublicArt #sculpture in Esquimalt Gorge Park.
#GoodNews - Several of my local small farm friends will benefit from this new program
#CRD will sow the seeds of #FoodSecurity & #GrowingFood in the region as it embarks on a new #foodlands access service.
The goal is to enhance food security & address concerns over the rising cost of #farmland by facilitating affordable access to productive land for new & expanding #farmers.
https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/crd-digs-in-to-farming-with-new-foodland-service-7819363
Saanich News · CRD digs in to farming with new foodland service
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Rattle making workshop, day 1.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/fqJ4aWBfdMc
#Indigenous led 2 day rattle making workshop is being facilitated by #OasisSociety - a #nonprofit urban Indigenous organization in #VictoriaBC on #VancouverIsland. The Society has been responding to the needs of the community in a unique and personal way since 2006.
https://oasisvic.org
Hosted at Luther Court Society's community workshop room. https://luthercourt.org
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#VictoriaBC Upcoming #FreeEvent hosted by our awesome, #LGBTQ2S friendly, local #AlterArts Society 
Info from their newsletter:
[ Come one come all to our first annual Cozy Queer Affair!
We invite you (yes you) to join us for a two day celebration of queer community and diverse art hosted by the Alter Arts Society. As the nights grow longer and the cold starts to set in, we invite you to join us over the November long weekend to cozy up together and celebrate the autumn season with our queer friends and allies. We will be gathering starting at noon on November 9th and 10th at the Oaklands Community Center. We are so excited to present an array of fire dancers, live music, stories, crafty workshops and body art. We're ready to warm up the autumnal season with you! The event is free entry, any donations will go to the Alter Arts Society. ]
Some of the many #Halloween #costumes at the Monster Mash event last night. Hosted & organized by the Burnside Gorge Community Association. It's an annual pre-Halloween, kid friendly, community event that is open to all families/all ages.
Their next annual holiday community event is the Santa's Pancake Breakfast.
More info on that will be posted soon. The details are still being worked out. It should be same cost as last year. BGCA aims to host either free or very affordable community events so more people can enjoy them without additional financial stress. The admission cost last year was only $7/Family(no cap on number of children) & $3/person.
Old #historical building for #trains repair/maintenance.
I had an excellent morning meeting at Burnside Gorge Community Assn. I got a small tour of their community event spaces inside the building. I'll be covering their Halloween event on October 24th. We will also be discussing accessibility in near future as well. I'll also be documenting their popular community Christmas hampers for local families program & their annual family friendly, free community Christmas event.
Last task of day. Uploaded my community event coverage vid 
Please enjoy my little musical #video #slideshow of our 2024 #LifecyclesProject #CommunitySharing Day!
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Julia is our midterm executive director & she's been doing a fantastic job.
Meet Julia:
Julia McDougall
Julia (she/her) is passionate about environmentalism and community engagement. Raised in Kamloops, British Columbia on Tk'emlups te Secwepemc territory, Julia spent her childhood hiking with dogs, canoeing through local lakes and rivers, and photographing the wildlife around her. With a camera and backpack in hand, Julia has travelled to six of the world's seven continents to learn as much as she can about different cultures and their connections to nature. Julia completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph in Animal Biology and later pursued a Master's degree in Conservation Research at Oxford Brookes University. She has conducted research on mountain gorillas in Uganda and black bears in Canada, which has shown her the importance of community dedication to local conservation issues. The links between positive environmental health and public engagement are clear, and have paved the way to her connection with Lifecycles Project Society. On her days off, you can often find Julia surfing in Tofino, hiking with her pup, or kayaking around the coast of Vancouver Island.
Ella is a super rad person 
Meet, Ella Swan.
Ella (they/them) is enthusiastic about increasing food security and reducing food waste. Raised to value local food systems, they have been working and volunteering for organizations related to sustainable agriculture and ecosystem health since their early teens. Their educational background is in Gender Studies, Environmental Studies and Restoration of Natural Systems. For Ella, the links between healthy food, healthy people and healthy ecosystems are clear. With practical experience in environmental restoration, farming and volunteer management, they are looking forward to supporting the administrative side of the Fruit Tree Project as well as joining in on fruit picks when opportunities arise. Ella is also passionate about art, and has a textile art practice. This is a way to (literally) weave together arts and environmentalism with their focus on reused materials, sheep to yarn explorations and natural dying. Ella is a settler of Scottish and English descent, and has been an uninvited guest on W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territories for the past 9 years. They were born and raised on the territories of the Ktunaxa and Secwépemc peoples.
Come to meet me & Julia (seen here), during #YYJ #GoByBike week, at #UVic on October 2nd. We're manning a #LifeCyclesFruitTreeProject info booth, free juice sampling station & giving away discount codes for our new orchard blend juice products. We'll be at UVic that day, from 9:30am - 12:45pm. Look for our banner, our logo marked van & me in an emerald green ballgown.
We are a local #nonprofit food security organization. Run almost entirely on volunteers power. Please support our community work!
http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca/
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@justafrog They were all quite distinct in flavours.
Here's some of the other heritage apple varieties we offered for public sampling, today.
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@justafrog We offered 19 of the 125 different #HeritageApple species grown in this legacy community orchard park, for public #tasting today. The large King heritage #apples were crowd fave.
Julia, feeding assorted #apples into the #FruitPressing machine.
We are also giving away a lot of free fruits & vegetables at #LifecyclesProject #CommunitySharing day at #WellandCommunityOrchard
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#HeritageApple #tasting station at Community Sharing event at #WellandCommunityOrchard - organized by #LifeCyclesFruitTreeProject
I'll be with the LifeCycles crew at #CommunitySharing day at #WellandCommunityOrchard today 
Our annual Community Sharing Day is our way to celebrate the urban orchard, as well as distribute extra fruit at the peak of the season! We will have activities including tasting heritage apple varieties, a scavenger hunt, orchard tours, cider pressing, asking a fruit tree expert and of course there will be fruit to take home.
