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Next month, I'm also doing a small neighbourhood workshop to help more women gain confidence with using power tools by themselves. I have 8 women signed up so far. My workshop limit is 12.

#FreeSchool #WomensPowerToolsWorkshop #HandsOnLearning #Grassroots #FreeEducation #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityEducation #BeginnersWorkshop #SheCanDoIt #SinsAgainstCapitalism #AntiCapitalist #WomensEmpowerment #DIY #BeTheChange #TakeInitiative

I'm contacting Shoreline, Colquitz & Esquimalt Middle schools in September, to ask if I can use their fields for free, to teach free mushrooms growing workshops & other free beneficial community resiliency/useful life-skills workshops. I need to acquire one popup event tent & one fold out table to run portable community educational workshops.

#BeTheChange #StartAnInitiative #Grassroots #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityEducation #FreeSchool #SolarPunk #PeopleHelpingPeople #SinsAgainstCapitalism #AntiCapitalist #CommunityWork

A very big bin full of oregano flower & seed heads. I'm tapping them indoors, on a tarp. Collecting the seeds to pack up. Saving some for us to sow. Donating thousands to local seed libraries 💚✌️👩‍🌾

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SaveSeeds #CollectSeeds #FreeTheSeeds #SeedTapping #FreeSeedsForThePeople #SolarPunk #ZeroWaste #DonateYourSeeds

If you're in #Saanich / #VictoriaBC & are interested in coming to my free grow your own gourmet mushrooms workshop, feel free to DM me. I'm real huge on accessible, inclusive & cost-free, useful community educational workshops that I volunteer to teach.

#VancouverIsland #GrowMushrooms #GrowYourOwn #FungiFoods #SelfSufficiency #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation #ConnectingCommunity

New volunteering goal: Sort more of my saved seeds + seed donations & get at least 100 new seed packets filled by end of August to stock into our #SevenOaksSeedLibrary 💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #Volunteering #CommunityWork

The first public sneak peek at our brand new #SevenOaksSeedLibrary on Whiteside at Kamloops Ave! It's just the seed packets that I've filled in there right now, with some info papers.

I'm looking forward to continuing to stock it up, with fellow volunteers!

If you're in #Saanich / #VictoriaBC area - please spread the word 😃

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SolarPunk #SinsAgainstCapitalism #FreeSeeds

Collecting #PoppySeeds.
I'll be saving a bunch to sow next year. I'm packing thousands of mixed poppy seeds to stock in 3 different local seed libraries 😃✌️💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #SeedsSovereignty

I also sorted & packed up another 65 seed envelopes to stock up our Seven Oaks Seed Library, over the weekend 💚✌️👩‍🌾🌻

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SevenOaksSeedLibrary #FreeSeeds #ShareSeeds

#YYJ #VolunteersNeeded

Please consider volunteering for Victoria’s first #BlackCommunityCentre & be a part of growing this amazing new, #BlackCommunity #cultural space 🙌

https://blackandherecentre.ca/volunteer/

#VictoriaBC #BlackLed #BlackCommunity #CulturalCommunity #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityCentre #CommunitySpace #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #BlackCanadians #Volunteer #BlackMastodon

Donated seeds to sort & package for our new, neighbourhood community sharing project - Seven Oaks Seed Library. Located on Whiteside St. at the crossroad with Kamloops Ave. We are still preparing it for public usage in about 2 weeks.

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity

Are you interested in starting up a community free seeds library for your local area?

If yes - I highly recommend starting with this website. It will help guide you through how to get started.

https://www.seedlibrarynetwork.org/

#SeedLibraryNetwork #SeedLibrary #ShareSeeds #SeedSavers #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #SeedsForTheCommunity #grassroots #PeopleHelpingPeople #SolarPunk #SinsAgainstCapitalism

Our neighbourhood grassroots community seed library box is installed. We are launching it in about 2 weeks. There's some seed sorting/packing I'm doing over next week to start stocking it up. I'll post photos of it setup soon.

We are calling it the Seven Oaks Seed Library. It's named after our little neighbourhood in South Saanich 🌱💚

#SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Placemaking #ShareSeeds #FreeSeeds #DonateSeeds #TakeSeeds #GrowFromSeed #SeedSavers #SeedsForCommunity #Saanich #CommunityInitiative #PeopleHelpingPeople #Grassroots #YYJ #VictoriaBC #gardening #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Seeds #VolunteerRun

#RecommendedBook

Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities. By Kailea Rose Loften , Kate Rose Weiner.

[ A vibrant and holistic grassroots guide to disaster preparedness that builds community resilience.

How do we live in the age of disaster? In this updated and expanded guide to collective crisis preparedness, Kailea and Kate, organizers and coeditors for the book and magazine publisher Loam, share community-shaped strategies on how to practically navigate the challenges posed by overlapping catastrophes—be they environmental, economic, political, or otherwise. Help is here for our bodies, hearts, minds, and shared homes. By amplifying resources for resilience, the authors underscore preparedness as a constant, communal practice. They offer inspiration from frontline organizers who help their communities prepare for emergencies, demonstrate how to envision probable futures after upheaval, and showcase people-powered projects that nurture collective regeneration. With engaging prompts, concise checklists, and heartfelt advice, Compassion in Crisis helps its readers build and sustain the durable mutual aid networks necessary for rapid response in the face of disaster. This is your invitation into the lifelong work of caring for our Earth and one another as we all find our way through the polycrisis. ]

#Books #Educational #Grassroots #CommunityResilience #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #MutualAssistance #DisasterPrepareness #EmergencyPlanning #PeopleHelpingPeople #CrisisManagement

I made an amateur video commercial, about my #LittleFreeLibrary in South #Saanich 😀

#CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityConnecting #FreeBooks #FreeZines #FreeStickers #FreeForTheCommunity #Placemaking #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #CommunityLibrary #grassroots #EverythingIsFree

I'm running with another grassroots community building/community sharing idea. This will be implemented in about August & run into early September.

My idea:

A neighbourhood arts & crafts public show with live demos, in our front & back yards. Neighbours can display their own arts & crafts for viewing. I would set up a kids creative station, where kids can create what they want & have fun with free arts/crafts with other neighbourhood kids. There would be live arts/crafts demos & some workshops for people to create something.

I'll contact local businesses & obtain donations for supplies needed. I'll seek community grant funding too, so I can make it an annual or bi-annual neighbourhood community event 😊

#Grassroots #SinsAgainstCapitalism #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #ArtsAndCrafts #Inclusive #FamilyFriendly #TakeInitiative #BeTheChange #CommunityConnecting

We're short on volunteers so I'll also be the one documenting our Saanich Neighbour to Neighbour Resilience Initiative event today. My Mom or the organizer will take over photo documentation when I'm busy teaching the last workshop.

This all started with one idea & having face to face chats with nearby neighbours, all within a 3 block radius.

#NeighbourToNeighbour #Saanich #CommunityGrants #GrantFunded #Grassroots #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEvent #CommunityConnecting #CommunitySharing #CommunityEducation

Community #volunteers are always needed at our local #VictoriaToolLibrary - entirely run by volunteers.

Annual membership for Victoria Tool Library is $100 - very affordable for what you get from membership. It costs over $100 to rent power tools/machinery from local businesses for a few hours.

Get more information on membership & sign up to volunteer if you're interested in helping out!

https://victoriatoollibrary.org/

#CommunitySharing #ToolLibrary #RepairCafe #ToolsCoop #VolunteerRun #nonprofit #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland

My #LittleFreeLibrary has been freshly restocked with some new books, more community & book lovers & environmentalist stickers, rad anarchist zines & a few other extra awesome freebies! My LFL is listed on Google maps under Dino Books Little Free Library. I run the only #anarchist LFL in the area 🤘

#CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityLibrary #FreeBooks #FreeZines #FreeStickers #ReadMoreBooks #bookstodon #ComeGetFreeBooks #Saanich #VictoriaBC #placemaking #VancouverIsland #ShareBooks #AnarchistLibrary #SolarPunk #library

One of my newer, younger neighbours (my Mom & her Mom became friends) came by to talk to me yesterday. She asked if I'm open to doing a brief presentation/mini workshop for our neighbourhood community in early June. I've agreed to teach a free frugal gardening mini workshop & will give away some free supplies for newbies to get started well. I pitched starting a neighbourhood seeds sharing library too because many people avoid the downtown area so they don't visit Victoria Seed Library, which is in the Central Victoria public library. She's keen on having a smaller community seeds library & is working on writing a community grant for that & for us to do more neighbourhood community building work.

It's wonderful to be approached by a neighbour, who is wanting to actively collaborate on closer community building, right in our 'hood. Community grassroots collaborations sparks joy for me 😃💗

#NeighbourToNeighbour #Grassroots #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation #CommunitySharing #CommunityConnecting #PowerToThePeoples

I'm getting some resources this week, to put together several free #GarryOakEcosystem #nature #zines to give away in my #LittleFreeLibrary all through this Spring & Summer.
It's part of my ongoing personal efforts to boost #NatureEducation / #NatureTeachings - right from the front of our home; so more people can learn about amazing local #biodiversity in our local #ecosystems 🙂
People who learn more about nature, will learn to love, respect & protect nature life systems 💚☘️

#FreeZines #NatureZines #KeystoneSpecies #GarryOaks #Wsanec #Saanich #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation #CommunitySharing #CommunityLibrary #EverythingIsFree #Ecological #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #YYJ #VanIsle #PNW

I found some volunteer helpers at the community connecting event, co-hosted by Bartholomew Collective & Food Not Bombs #VictoriaBC chapter - to help me build more free community sharing boxes to put in front of our house. One for non-perishable foods. One for arts/crafts supplies. Another for seed sharing.

#FreeTheFood #FreeTheSeeds #FreeTheArtSupplies #FreeTheCraftSupplies #FreeForThePeoples #BeTheChange #CreateLocalChange #CommunityBuilding #Saanich #YYJ #VancouverIsland #AnarchoSocialist #ForThePeopleByThePeople #CommunitySharing

Come visit my #LittleFreeLibrary to grab a free book/zine/pinback/postcard/stickers 😁
I'm adding these stickers to my LFL, tomorrow morning✌️

#Anarchist #Feminist
#LegalizationSavesLives
#FreePalestine

#FreeStuff #FreeBooks #CommunityBuilding #Saanich #VictoriaBC #CommunitySharing #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Activism #FreeStickers #political #Antifascist

Rue Anatole France

📍 Quéven, France

https://www.bookcorners.org/library/queven-rue-anatole-france/

#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #Quéven #France #booklover #communitysharing #france #bookexchange #streetlibrary #colorfulart #cloudstickers #neighborhoodlibrary #reading #opensource

Come & check out our #LifecyclesProjectSociety booth at #VictoriaBC #SeedySaturday tomorrow! I'll be working there from noon-3pm(or 4pm).
You can get some free seeds from us, if you stop by 😊✌️

I'm working Sunday & Monday at Welland Community Orchard. Creating new media on Sunday. Pruning fig trees on Monday.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/

#FreeSeeds #YYJ #Seeds #SeedsSharing #nonprofit #SeedSavers #GetSomeSeeds #VancouverIsland #CultivatingCommunities #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEvent #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #FoodEquity #CommunityWork

My #LittleFreeLibrary is restocked again.
I still need to remove my old, faded activist stickers & put up some fresh new ones.

#Saanich #DinoBooks #FreeLibrary #placemaking #FreeBooks #library #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #ReadMoreBooks #VictoriaBC #paperbacks #hardcovers #Books #VancouverIsland

ASEAN+3 Societies in Action (ASIA) in #VictoriaBC funded by the Victoria Foundation through its Community Grants Program and by the Government of #BritishColumbia through the Community Prosperity Fund, is a collaborative initiative that brings together #AsianCommunity groups in the region. Key collaborators include the #Bayanihan Community Centre, the Victoria #ChinatownLioness Lions Club, the Victoria #Filipino Canadian Association, and the Victoria #Nikkei #Cultural Society.

Tomorrow, I'm attending the ASIA in Victoria Summit!
https://www.vfca.ca/post/building-bridges-asean-3-societies-in-action-asia-in-victoria

#AsianMastodon #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEvent #CommunityConnecting #Nonprofit #CommunityBridging #CulturalConnections #CommunitySharing #CommunityLearning #CommunityNetworking #EsquimaltGorgePark #VancouverIsland #ASEAN #AsianDiaspora

Food Shelter And Knowledge.
All belongs to all.

#Antifascist #AntiColonial #Anarchist #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleOverProfits #SocialJustice #Grassroots #CommunitySharing #Equity #CitizensUprising #CitizensRevolt #MutualCommunity #BuildStrongCommunities #HumanRights

I'll be at 2 different workplaces tomorrow for two different local nonprofits.

LifeCycles Project team is having their jam making work party all day, out of Mustard Seed Distribution HQ kitchen. I'll be there most of tomorrow afternoon.

In the morning, I'll be helping out with another Iyé Creative Collective event 👇

Seeds and Synergies is a gathering that aims to bring together community members, growers, farmers, and farmers to be, facilitators, and partners from racialized groups to reflect on the role of Culturally Relevant Crops and Land Access in shaping the access of these groups to locally grown, healthy and nutritious foods, education, employment opportunities, income, and belonging to the land, to themselves and their communities.

For the past five years, Iyé Creative has been working with community members and local farmers to learn about cultural crops – plant relatives that carry deep meaning for our food, health, and traditions on Coast Salish lands. We’ve also been pushing for fairer land policies so more people can grow the foods and medicines that matter to them.

Cultural foods aren’t just products on a market, or grocery store shelf. They’re living connections that tie us to land, spirit, and each other.

https://www.iyeherstories.com/

#FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #FoodEquity #CulturalCrops #FoodAndCulture #BIPOC #CulturalFoodGardens #CulturalConnections #CulturalFood #POCfood #GlobalSouthFood #POCDiaspora #FoodConnections #CommunityEvent #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilders #Storytelling #Collaboration

I just got the agenda for upcoming #AsiaInVictoria #Summit. I'm excited to attend this #cultural #community conference!

I'm definitely taking part in the grant writing & fund development workshop. I haven't decided on the other workshops to take.

Maybe I will meet someone who speaks Teochew too! That would be so wonderful.

#Nonprofit #CulturalConnections #AsiansConference #AsianMastodon #CommunityBuilding #CommunityWork #CommunitySharing #AsianCultures #Networking #Educational #Learning #Workshops #AsianDiaspora

#LifecyclesProjectSociety #FruitTreeProject Update.

This year, we have harvested over 63,000 lbs of fruit! Of that, almost 32,000 lbs of Grade A fruit has been donated to the community, to over 70 community service agencies throughout the Greater Victoria Area. Our tree stewards have kept 4,500 lbs, and our amazing team of 191 Harvest Leads and Pickers have taken 13,000 lbs home. 

What about the other 13,500 lbs you ask? 

Made up of B-Grade, we have processed just over 7500 lbs into juice and jam. Some of the fruit is always C-Grade (compost). To date, we have composted just under 6000 lbs of fruit - while some of this has gone to our friends at Community Composting, the vast majority has gone to a local pig farmer.

We are proud to say no fruit has gone into the landfill!

https://lifecyclesproject.ca

#LifecyclesProject #FoodSystems #Nonprofit #FoodSecurity #fruitTrees #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunitySharing #CommunityBuilding #Volunteers #FoodSharing #Teamwork #Gleaning #ViewRoyal #VolunteerWithLifecycles #FoodEquity #CultivatingCommunities #ZeroWaste #ReduceFoodWaste #fruit #CommunityWork #harvest