Welp, I made it well into 2025 without getting covid, but my luck ran out. Thankful for being multi-vaxed, having access to otc meds, friends who drop off supplies, + ample sick days thru work. Wish access to anti-virals was possible in BC, as well as govt campaigns for clean air + masking. #covid

Sorry, this event is POSTPONED. I’ll post with a new date once confirmed or check the NALT website.

Nanaimo! Part 2 of our boulevard native plant + pollinator project happens this Sat, Sept 20. We’ll clear weeds, lay down cardboard + add a bunch of new soil. This event + other event info: nalt.bc.ca/events-calen... Plants go in at our Sat Nov 15 work party! #nanaimo #nanaimobc #snuneymuxw

This talk looks great! Ecological Maximalism hosted by Terremoto. Zoom link at their IG www.instagram.com/terremoto_la... Or here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8389390108... TM have been outspoken about landscape worker rights + the impacts of ICE raids on workers. terremoto.la/land-and-labor

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I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

Here we go again while living through year 6 of the pandemic. 🫠 Back to school with Covid at high or very high levels across Canada. Would love to see clean air in schools to protect all the kiddos, teaching + school staff as well as their families at home.

See you tomorrow from 10am-12pm Nanaimo! Fun volunteer opportunity to help prep for a beautiful boulevard planting. #nanaimo #vanisle

i can’t remember who was talking about renaming the left-right spectrum to connectors-disconnectors how are you using your time, talent, and treasure to connect more to the people around you, to foster connection in your community? disconnection serves the fascists

Fun Nanaimo habitat and native plant project happening this weekend and through the fall. Join us this Saturday.

Nanaimo! We’re getting together to clear out a very overgrown boulevard. If you’re in town this long weekend, we’d love to see you. Tools provided! This fall we’ll be planting out hundreds of beautiful and pollinator-supporting native plants at this site. #nanaimo #vancouverisland #snuneymuxw

THIS.

Rates are up mid-island folks! Mask up, spend more time outdoors + distanced.

Terrible air quality in Nanaimo this morning. Good idea to wear a well-fitting respirator mask if you’re out in this. Hoping the forecasted rain tonight + tomorrow help suppress the Mt. Underwood + Wesley Ridge fires. AQI looks even worse in Parksville area. Solastalgia, much? 😭

The herons in the nearby estuary have decided to start taking pit stops along the shoreline route near us. They like this cropped off tree and another clump of full height Doug Firs nearby for a break. #nanaimo #snuneymuxw

Such a great (and likely underused) program here in Nanaimo. Fill your yard with trees! Green Thumb has a great selection of fruit trees as well as a few native trees like Shore Pine, Douglas Fir and Dogwood Xs like Eddie’s White Wonder.

I know everything is bad right now but if you're someone who appreciates textiles please consider donating to the Textile Museum of Canada. They are a very good museum and may not be able to reopen unless they hit their funding goal this month. textilemuseum.ca/join-support...

This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!

Ghost Pipe and Rusty Patched Bumble Bee — The Ghost Pipe (Monotropa uniflora), despite looking like a type of fungus, is actually a flowering plant that grows in damp areas of forests in North America.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: ON MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.

Absolutely stunning project in East Van! Site prep is so key for the success of any habitat or garden.

Love this! 🌈 🌹 Beautiful reminder to get some native roses growing in my yard.

Folks, I love #nativeplants. But I also really love people + native plants. People are part of the environment. Native plants in urban settings make habitat too. Giving people affordable access to native plants and equipping them with gardening skills is priceless, and it builds community.

Kingmeata Etidlooie was an Inuk Canadian graphic artist and sculptor. A relatively prolific artist, she had more than fifty of her prints published between 1970 and her death in 1979. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of order and structure. Here's some nice bird features 🪶

Anyone have experience running a pop-up plant sale? Pls share your knowledge! My native plant seed trays were fairly successful which I wasn’t expecting + now my quiet plans start a native plant nursery are feeling more possible. #nativeplants #vancouverisland #pnw #biodiversity #unlawn #rewilding

#vancouverisland #vanisle #nanaimo #victoria #comox

🧵UPDATED: #BritishColumbia est.'d #COVID19 cases, the same per 100,000 pop. by health authority. According to #BCCDC wastewater #SARSCoV2 data: on average, from 5/22 - 5/28, there would've been 821 cases/day in #BC (⬆️ 634, 5/15 - 5/21). ratnegative.tumblr.com/BCWastewater 1/5

Arts organisations would consider making fake flowers art, but creating with living plants not. I think gardening can be art, it’s every bit as valid as paint on paper.

We're up to 25 members! Spread the word and joint today to help us hit our 50+ member goal! Every member helps us advocate for AAA active transit infrastructure in Nanaimo!

Intro to habitat gardening webinar this weekend! Looks like a great starting point for beginners. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... I’m going to attend and see what I can learn as I still have lots of space on the 1/4 acre I’m lucky to steward to add more habitat.

Yesterday, Canada joined France and the UK in a statement threatening “concrete actions” including possible sanctions against Israel’s blockade of aid and expansion of military operations. Send an urgent message now demanding that Canada imposes an immediate #ArmsEmbargo: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ur...

Went by VIU for the record-breaking Nanaimo Bar, stayed for the native plants. Look at those blooms! This slope is a restoration site stewarded by students + biology instructor Caroline Josefsson. Focus on drought-tolerant plants of P’hwulhp (Garry Oak) ecosystems. thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/phwu...

80ft Nanaimo bar beating the previous world record of 8ft is a vibe.

Nanaimo Area Cycling Coalition is doing a membership drive w/a goal to sign up 50 members. They strive to improve infrastructure for cyclists + other vulnerable road users using skateboards, kick scooters, wheelchairs, mobility scooters. www.cycleinnanaimo.ca/membership #nanaimo #Vancouverisland

Admiring my mini meadow planters. The Sea Blush (Plectritis congesta) is the star of the show at the moment. Accompanied by Roemer’s Fescue, Coastal Mugwort, Woolly Sunflower, Pearly Everlasting, Yarrow, Farewell-to-Spring and more. Last week I saw a hummingbird at the Sea Blush in our backyard.

Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 26-May 9, 2025 BRITISH COLUMBIA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 145 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~11X higher -Long COVID ~10X higher -Hospitalizations ~16X higher -Deaths ~15X higher

This ⬇️. We’ve got another residential school denier in Ottawa. How are people who don’t believe facts permitted to be MPs? This guy is so incredibly dangerous.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 Pierre 🕯 Poilievre 🕯 Loses his seat 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Current obsession: this incredible project called Re-green North Kensington. ‘This installation transforms a corner of North Kensington using the power of plants to reconnect people to nature and each other.’ georgekingarchitects.com/portfolio-it...

Nanaimo! If you live or frequent the south part of town, you can walk-in for your Covid vaccine between 10am-5pm at the Medicine Shoppe at 847 Bruce Ave this Tue through Fri.

Happy “Jesus Christ Superstar” Day to all who celebrate

Sunny weekend walk not far from the highway in Nanaimo. White Fawn Lilies and what I think is a bushtit nest? Also saw lots of Tall Oregon Grape as well as a bunch of invasive ls like ivy, daphne, daffodils.

Peeping on my mini native plant meadows. These are in planters built on a strange paved slope from a busy street to the sidewalk. Our house abuts the sidewalk; no boulevard lawn, west-facing, surrounded by asphalt + it’s doing pretty well! Planted last spring + reupped last fall w/ plants + seeds.

Having fun coming up with a planting plan for a pollinator + native plant patch soon to be installed in the South End of Nanaimo. It’s a community initiated project that’s connecting neighbours. A once-neglected bump-out will become a vibrant mini habitat for our local pollinators!

Help out wonderful Jay and Jessica!

Agreed. Fight the fights related to your thing. My focus is native plants, biodiversity. Seed + plant sharing, neighbourhood planting projects, letter writing to reps, courses in eco landscapes. Fighting eugenics: wearing a 😷 to protect myself + others from viruses, helping build a mask bloc.

Love a niche tweet about a rock opera.