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A beautiful day for Monday’s work party as 11 of our volunteers raked up the grass, at the Conservation area, recently mown by the Gardening team. This is to help the wildflowers previously planted there to flourish next year.

Join our group (for free!) & email us to volunteer!

#FoPCP #pollokpark #workparty

Gorge Waterway Action Society is hosting a #PLANTING PARTY! To celebrate upcoming National #ForestWeek.

To occur during our regularly scheduled Thursday morning #NatureRestoration #WorkParty on September 26, from 9:30 until 11:00 am.

#VolunteersWanted #CommunityWork #EcologicalRestoration #HelpRestoreNature #HelpingHands #ComeAndHelp #GorgeWaterwayPark #RestoreTheGorge #Esquimalt #ViewRoyal #Saanich #Wsanec #Lekwungen #Songhees #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #YYJ #MakeADifference #HelpWanted #VanIsle #Environmentalists #NaturesHumanHelpers

Event poster.

Gorge Waterway Action Society is hosting a PLANTING PARTY!

Thursday, September 26, from 9:30am until 11:00 am.

Meet at the Gorge Waterway Nature House
Tools provided, all are welcome, no experience necessary.

Please watch & enjoy my musical slideshow of #WellandCommunityOrchard #WorkParty today 🙂

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=lAmOQmFAtSOOsulN&v=zhs-v-ez-ko&feature=youtu.be

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #nuts #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits #volunteers #CommunityWork #harvest

3 of us on unofficial Team Asian attended #WellandCommunityOrchard #WorkParty today. Jenny & Phang. Jenny is originally from mainland China & speaks Cantonese - avid food security person & she does Chinese genealogy work too. Phang is from Hanoi, Vietnam & has only been here for less than a year. Phang is a farmer & works on a small market farm in Metchosin. All 3 of us are regular community orchard volunteers.

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #nuts #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits #Volunteers #AsianMastodon

Jenny & Phang, pushing empty wheelbarrows up the orchard hill. Sophia is in the background.

Phang dumping compost woodchips on wet cardboard around plum tree trunk. Jenny with a wheelbarrow in background. River standing by tree & looking at cardboard ring layer around tree

Phang up on orchard ladder. Male volunteer picking apples behind her. A plastic box of harvested apples is in front of the ladder.

Just got home from another #WellandCommunityOrchard #WorkParty. My first time using their orchard ladder to harvest apples. The weather was stellar to work outdoors today. Warm & sunny with gentle breezes.

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #CommunityFood #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #apples #FruitTrees #orchard #FoodTrees #GrowingFood #GrowingFruits #HarvestTime #ApplePickers #volunteers

Me, up on metal orchard ladder, flashing hand peace sign, by apple trees. Sophia is standing beside ladder, holding a cardboard box that I put picked apples in. Jenny is standing off to the side near her picked apples box.

Rake & Radish #Harvest #WorkParty photos #slideshow video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRgZy_9hpPE

https://rakeandradish.ca/

#SupportLocalFarmers #YYJfarms #FarmFoods #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Volunteers #FarmHarvest #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #CordovaBay #SmallFarmers #VanIsleFarms #QueerFarm #LGBTQ2Sfriendly #FoodGrowers #FlowerGrowers #Farming #QueerOwned

#Harvest #WorkParty #volunteers in the crop fields.

#SupportLocalFarmers #YYJfarms #FarmFoods #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Volunteers #FarmHarvest #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #CordovaBay #SmallFarmers #VanIsleFarms #QueerFarm #LGBTQ2Sfriendly #FoodGrowers #FlowerGrowers

3 volunteers in strawberry patches with their strawberries harvests.

A Mom & young daughter with tray of strawberries harvested, in strawberries crop field.

Gage, kneeling down in tomatoes jungle greenhouse, harvesting cherry tomatoes.

Ardeo, with family of Mexican volunteers, in farm field by the pea crops.

Had an amazing time at Rake & Radish #harvest #WorkParty today!

Met some wonderful fellow local #FoodSecurity community volunteers too. Ardeo, #queer #farm owner, is a fantastic small scale #farmer, amazing person & is also involved with Queer Crafternoon community too.

Check out the #SmallScaleFarm website:
https://rakeandradish.ca/

#SupportLocalFarmers #YYJfarms #FarmFoods #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Volunteers #FarmHarvest #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #CordovaBay #SmallFarmers #VanIsleFarms #QueerFarm #LGBTQ2Sfriendly #FoodGrowers #FlowerGrowers

Selfie of me in tomatoes greenhouse, holding 2 huge orange tomatoes in my left hand.

Photo of me at the farm, holding 2 different flower bouquets in my left hand. Dahlias & sunflowers.

Photo of me & Ardeo, queer farm owner, in farm fields. I'm holding 2 marigold flowers & Ardeo is holding a bucket of cut sunflowers.

Group photo of me with 3 other farm harvest volunteers & Ardeo. We are holding flowers & strawberries & tomatoes harvested at the farm this morning. Crop fields are beside us.

Small volunteers work party in the orchard this afternoon. We got lots of work done, despite there being only 4 of us this weekend.

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #FruitForEveryone #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #WorkParty #Volunteers #CommunityWork #PeoplePower #TeamWork

Volunteers team, working on weeding & pruning in the orchard.

Wheelbarrow with pulled weeds & bucket with pruning lopers, hand spades & leather work gloves.

A blonde woman in a tie dyed floral print dress holds 2 large, clear plastic containers, filled with yellow plums.

Liam, a work party volunteer, pruning back a large bush.

#Slideshow of the July 28th #WellandCommunityOrchard #volunteers #WorkParty 🍎🍏🍐🍈🍑🍒🍇

https://youtu.be/FecBWb6umug?si=bj1poohFzA_YCE58

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #FruitForEveryone #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits #HelpingHands #CommunityWork #WorkingTogether

Look at them beautiful #apples & #medlars 😃 So much fab #fruits ripening up on trees!
These are from one of the several areas I was doing windfall pickups & weeding, during the #WellandCommunityOrchard #volunteers #WorkParty today ✌️

#LifecyclesProject #ViewRoyal #volunteering #FoodSecurity #Wsanec #Saanich #Lekwungen #VictoriaBC #Grassroots #NonProfit #CommunityOrchard #FruitForEveryone #LegacyPark #CommunityBased #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #fruits

Apples ripening on tree! One red apple in the bunch.

Looking down between two rows of apple trees in the orchard.

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

Me with 3 female Vietnamese volunteers & River, orchard coordinator. Standing behind wheelbarrow & bucket, filled with fallen apples.

4 female volunteers with River, orchard coordinator. Standing behind wheelbarrow & bucket, filled with fallen apples

Volunteers working together in orchard with weeding & cleanup.

One volunteer is standing & pruning a tall shrub. Another volunteer is crouched on ground, hand weeding.

Scary spaceman

#UdvarHazy #WorkParty
#Photography #Saturday

A opaque-helmeted space suit, lit from below in garish colors.

It's #workparty season. Mind yourselves!

#beezyandgrim #dailycomicstrip #webcomic #comicart #comicstrip #beelzebub #grimreaper #cartoonstrip #cartoon #comic

Looking forward to the hell that is the yearly work celebration party tonight. Just what I love, hanging out with drinking coworkers being loud... #killmenow #holidayparty #workparty
#wouldratherbehomewithmycats #sarcasm

Other #workparty people couldn't make it today so I'm working on my own. Very tired after yesterday's travel and thinking I'll head home soon and try to sleep it off.

#WorkParty

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