#communitystewardship — Public Fediverse posts

📰 Community Street Tree Bed Gardening Saves Social Ecosystem

🌍 Germany: Freiburg neighbors garden around street trees and boost plant diversity. They’re building also connection. Stewards describe the work as calming, restorative, and a way to meet people who stop to chat.

🏙️ Visible care changes how others treat the space and reduces litter. Across 200 tree beds, stewarded patches supported ~1.6× more plant species. These “small flowering islands” help insects, retain moisture, and create stepping‑stones between larger green spaces. The Freiburg blüht auf (Freiburg in bloom) initiative connects tree bed stewards directly with ecologists, who provide stewards with seeds, plants and advice on turning street tree beds into small habitats for native plants and insects.

🤝 73% of stewards first learned about the practice from a neighbor. Even tiny patches of soil can become places of meaning, biodiversity, and community.

🔗 https://theconversation.com/small-flowering-islands-german-city-reveals-how-nature-thrives-when-neighbours-care-for-street-tree-beds-285637

#SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #UrbanNature #Biodiversity #CommunityStewardship #NativePlants

"Durable open-source success lies in longevity, not novelty. Forks like Fluxnova show how community-driven governance and licensing choices shape sustainable software. #OpenSourceLongevity #MaintenanceMinds #CommunityStewardship #LicensingMatters #SoftwareSustainability"

https://saysomething.hashnode.dev/open-source-longevity-why-maintenance-is-the-new-innovation

#TigrayWar #Tigray #Ethiopia #LandDegradation #landrehabilitation #stonebunds #SoilConservation #Agroecology #CommunityStewardship #EnvironmentalRecovery #PostConflictResilience #SustainableLandUse #LandSystem #LandResilience #soilerosion #gully #exclosure #farmerledirrigation #GhentUniversity #MekelleUniversity #Geography

#WellandCommunityOrchard #PollinatorGarden

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

Wonderful #orchard #volunteers at work 😊💗

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

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

#Echinacea aka #Coneflower
#Lavender
#HummingbirdSage & #Catnip #mint.

#WellandCommunityOrchard #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #LegacyPark #YYJ #PollinatorGarden #GardeningMastodon #PlantIdentification #CommunityGarden #PlantLovers #botanical #herbal #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #CommunityStewardship #medicinal #CommunityPark #bloomscrolling #florespondence #FlowersIdentification #flowers

At #WellandCommunityOrchard they have a wall of #BeeCondos for #NativeBees / #pollinators 🐝💗🐝
These tiny homes are used by #BlueOrchardMasonBees & #LeafcutterBees & #SandWasps & some other native bees.

Honeybees provide us with honey & beeswax but they aren't native here.

#VancouverIsland is home to at least 30 different native bee species. Almost all of these native bees are solitary.

https://youtu.be/i_dBo0ewJv4?si=2Nljn8R-Y2iNyswk

#WellandHeritagePark #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #VancouverIsland #LegacyPark #YYJ #CommunityGarde #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #insects #CommunityStewardship #BeeHomes #CommunityPark #nature #NatureVideo #BeesVideo #BeeLovers

At #WellandCommunityOrchard they have a wall of #BeeCondos for #NativeBees / #pollinators 🐝💗🐝
These tiny homes are used by #BlueOrchardMasonBees & #LeafcutterBees & #SandWasps & some other native bees.

Honeybees provide us with honey & beeswax but they aren't native here.

#VancouverIsland is home to at least 30 different native bee species. Almost all of these native bees are solitary.

#WellandHeritagePark #CommunitySpaces #YYJgreenspaces #Wsanec #YYJparks #VictoriaBC #CommunityOrchard #VanIsle #LegacyPark #YYJ #CommunityGarde #ViewRoyal #LifecyclesProject #insects #CommunityStewardship #BeeHomes #CommunityPark #nature