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Join our team as we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">explore,
make, and grow</b> through the seasons in actions inspired by the Renfrew
Ravine beside the Renfrew Park Community Centre. We’ll be hosting picnics,
pop-up pollinator gardens, ravine walks, and hands-on art-making with natural
materials. We’ll help each other bloom and grow through inclusive, supportive,
fun and engaging activities. Our aim is to create a web of deep connections among
people and plants that make the neighborhood resilient and beautiful. Consider
our residency a collective love-letter to the Renfrew Ravine: its ferns, flowers,
bees, butterflies, birds, frogs, fungi and more! Our motto is “be brave, be
kind, be green!” Our team is Madame Beespeaker (Lori Weidenhammer), Crystal
Lee, Wendy Oberlander, Catherine Shapiro, Lori Snyder, Anya Chase, Jasna Guy,
Heather Talbot, Julia Thiessen, and Brenna Maag.
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Super Bloomin' thanks to all who came out to our final event!<br />
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<br />Lori Snyder's healing herbal teas were a delight to all the senses and nourished our bodies and souls.<br />
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Her plant wisdom is truly extraordinary!<br />
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Look at that lovely rosehip tea burbling away!<br />
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You were invited to create your own herbal tea blend and take some home!<br />
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I was pleased that my vintage table cloths matched Lori's ceramics!!<br />
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And what better way to sweeten your cuppa with rose-petal infused honey that smells of a sunny day in June?<br />
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This is a chayote I found on the ground on my travels through the back alleys of east van.<br />
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Chayote must be heart medicine in the doctrine of signatures because it does look like a heart. What do you think it looks like?<br />
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Here's my tea party outfit! Looking forward to more tea parties in 2019. Thanks to all the artists, participants and staff. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-44136343302460108922018-10-12T08:19:00.002-07:002018-10-12T08:24:53.655-07:00Superblooming at the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What an amazing night!!!! Hats off to Still Moon Arts for hosting the best Moon Fest ever!!! We had so much fun chatting to folks about our bee lanterns we made with the community and helping folks make messages for the bees.<br />
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The jar lanterns were made by the teens we worked with in the Slocan Field House.<br />
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These blue lanterns are made with the cyanotypes we created with Superbloomer artist Brenna Maag.<br />
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This piece is a bee skep entirely fabricated from handmade paper formed onto a mold. It's a piece Catherine Shapiro made and we added a few honeybees for the Moon Fest.<br />
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Artist Heather Talbot taught us how to make these awesome pyramid style lanterns.<br />
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We were mobbed by folks who wanted to make messages and poems for the bees!<br />
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If you have registered for our Lantern Workshops, please note the location is NOT the Renfrew Park Community Centre, but the Slocan Park Field house, located at the north end of the park. Apologies for the lack of information or confusion.<br />
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The next two workshops are Sunday, September 9 and 16 from 1:30 to 3:00 pm. There are still spaces available if you'd like to participate on one or both days. Please e-mail us at teamsuperbloom@gmail.com.<br />
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Here's a glimpse at what we're doing! Special thanks to Superbloomers Catherine Shapiro and Heather Talbot for leading us in the first two workshops!!!<br />
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The frame is made from forsythia twigs from my back yard and bamboo from deconstructed bamboo mats and blinds. We're using masking tape and gaffer tape to join the corners.<br />
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We're trying two designs: the pyramid and the cube.<br />
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We attached the cotton gauze that Catherine prepped to receive the indigo paint with white glue.<br />
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We are so excited to be getting ready for the Moon Festival on September 22! This month the Super Bloomers worked with teens to make lanterns for our installation. Yesterday Anya Chase and her helper elves came out and taught us how to make 3D house lanterns.<br />
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This is the template we cut out of bristle board and decorated with tissue paper.<br />
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Everyone customized their house with their own window and door designs. <br />
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These will look great with little solar or battery- powered LED's inside!<br />
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I worked with the teens earlier in the month on creating seed jar pendants that can be worn in the procession on Sept 22, or anytime you feel like doing a bit of guerilla gardening for pollinators!<br />
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We also made some basic insect-themed glass jar lanterns, and I told the teens about the tradition of "telling the bees". (More on that on another blog post!.)<br />
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And finally, we made cyanotype prints with Superbloomer artist Brenna Maag. She has a long history of working with the medium, and it was fun to make use of her knowledge and experience!<br />
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Brenna showed us this beautiful quilt she made with cyanotype prints.<br />
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The art dawgs were in attendance, guarding the ink pads!<br />
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We left them for 18 minutes because it was a smokey cloudy day. When you remove the plant material, the cloth has darkened and looks like this.<br />
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Here's some of the plant material we used. Some of it was from the edge of the Renfrew Ravine.<br />
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And here you go! After washing the material to stop the developing process, this is what the cloth looks like. (See below.) It will get a little bit darker as it dries.<br />
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What a beautiful day for a bee safari! When it rains the night before and then the sun comes out in the afternoon, the bees come out to work. This is a long-horned bee (<i>Melissodes</i>) which collects pollen on the hair on her hind legs and nests in the ground.<br />
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Before I headed to the Norquay Food Forest for our bee safari, I checked out the SPEC school garden at Norquay Elementary where the bees were having a party in the threadleaf coreopsis.</div>
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It's so lovely to see so many great bee plants thriving in these beds. You can see the coreopsis there with purple coneflower (<i>Echinacea purpurea</i>) which is an awesome plant for butterflies and bees.<br />
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If you haven't been by the Norquay Food Forest, I highly recommend stopping in to get some ideas for your own garden, school garden, or community garden.<br />
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We met some cute doggy friends, including burdock, who loves to eat radish flowers!<br />
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And here's sweet little Summer, who just loves being sweet.<br />
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The yarrow is blooming and this is where you'll be seeing the bees here. The crab spider knows this and is waiting for its weekend brunch. Bees are definitely on her menu!<br />
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Here's another bee predator: a small wasp called a bee wolf. There was also quite a few yellow jackets and bald faced hornets taking wood from the fence to make their paper nests.</div>
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But where are the bees? We found honeybees and bumblebees in the lavender, and they will soon be harvesting pollen from these lovely purple burdock flowers.<br />
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The thimbleberries were full of these funky pickles! They are actually made by thimbleberry gall wasps that lay their eggs inside the stems of these shrubs. The thimbleberries are ripe, but best leave them for the workers who keep the food forest looking shipshape! You can also see the scarlet bee balm in the back of the shot, which is another fantastic herb for bumblebees and hummingbirds. We watched a male hummingbird silently feeding on the long tubular blossoms.<br />
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On the way to the school, we stopped by a private front yard garden with leafcutter bees in the creeping bellflower. Look at her amazing jaws! These mandibles are used to cut out leaf pieces to use as nesting material. This is a very weedy flower, so I can't recommend putting it in your garden deliberately, but the bees do love it. It's a great plant for vacant lots and back alleys.<br />
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We arrived at the SPEC school garden at Norquay Elementary to be greated by many gorgeous bees! One of the best plants for bees is lacy phacelia (<i>Phacelia tanacetifolia</i>) You can see the deep purple pollen this yellow-faced bumblebee is carrying in her pollen baskets.<br />
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This patch of phacelia was buzzing with yellow-faced bumblebees! There must be a nest nearby.<br />
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Calenda and borage (aka bee porridge) are school garden essentials. They are so easy to grow from seed and the bees LOVE the flowers. Humans can also put the flowers in salads and teas.</div>
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Herbs and veggies with lacy umbels of flowers attract the tiny masked bees and small carpenter bees. Honeybees, flower flies and larger bees love them too!<br />
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Scarlet runner bean flowers feed hummingbirds and bumblebees. They also look so lovely and the beans are delicious!<br />
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One of the highlights of a bee safari is catching a glimpse of the lovely turquise sweat bee (<i>Agapostemon</i>). Look for small leafcutter bees in these coreopsis flowers as well. They were too fast and sneaky for me to get a photo.<br />
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Many thanks to everyone who came out to explore the bees in the hood! I feel very grateful to share these lovely creatures with other folks. Everyone has something to teach me about the human connection to bees, and it inspires me to see people's joy as they witness the beauty of these creatures.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-16441624474573182542018-07-02T19:29:00.002-07:002018-07-02T19:36:42.312-07:00Happy Canada Day from Renfrew Park Community Centre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So great to have the opportunity to dress up and bee silly with fellow Super Bloomer Crystal Lee!<br />
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We were so lucky to have breezy blue skies for this fabulous youth-driven event.<br />
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The entertainment was all provided by the local community--lots of colour and dancing!<br />
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Crystal and I think this furry dragon would make an excellent pollinator!<br />
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The emphasis of the event was on being active and working as a group to make communities strong.<br />
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We provided pollinator costumes for people to dress up and follow our silly safari to the blackberry patch where we watched the bees at work and talked about the relationship of the bees to the flowers and the berries. We also saw ladybugs. One landed on a parent's arm. This is a sign of good luck!<br />
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We also saw this cool robber fly--a bee mimic. Can you see what it's having for a Canada Day snack? (Hint: there's a bug that's not having such good luck.)<br />
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Maybe this dragon is related to the robber fly?! Carlotta the Cuckoo Bumblebee makes a new friend.<br />
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More colour!!!<br />
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More maple leaves!<br />
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We started off the festival with the funky grooves of Balkan Shmalkin.<br />
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Artist Yoko Tomito made a lovely banner with seniors. The letters are made from hand-sewn buttons. So beautiful!<br />
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Artist Yoko Tomito holds up the collaborative banner.<br />
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You know it's going to be a good day when you share the stage with Elvis!!!!!<br />
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Lovely birds by Still Moons Arts!<br />
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Juggling demos! <br />
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Schoolyard mosaic in the garden<br />
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Loved loved loved this display from <a href="http://mobilemuseum.ca/">mobilemuseum.ca</a>! <br />
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<span id="goog_1183167052">Windermere school display on the importance of bees!</span><br />
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<span id="goog_1183167052">Thanks to the organizers and volunteers for an awesome event!!! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-15723534200607903352018-05-28T09:22:00.002-07:002018-05-28T09:28:07.032-07:00Sketch-a-palooza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sketch-a-palooza was a roaring success! We had so much fun we'll have do this again! Thanks to everyone who participated. It was lovely to spend the afternoon exploring pollinators and plants with you!<br />
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This bee makes me want to dance! It's the Zumba Bee! Could Carlotta the Cuckoo Bumblebee have provided some inspiration? (See below.)<br />
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I've created these flower studies for us to use as inspiration for upcoming Super Bloomer projects. Stay tuned for details!<br />
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What a perfect day to visit the Renfrew Park Community Centre! The rooms in the centre are buzzing with human activity, while the roses outside are busy with bees, mining the pollen from the roses.<br />
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If you check out the climbing rose on the field house, you'll see it attracts a suite of pollinators, all playing a rose in ensuring each flower bears healthy fruit with many seeds. This is a large mining bee known as<i> Andrena prunorum</i>. She's go quite the pollen load on her hind legs! Roses don't produce nectar, so this flower is all about the pollen.<br />
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This is a turquoise sweat bee. You make also find these on buttercups and flowers in the aster family. <br />
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This is a syphid fly, a little bee mimic that lays eggs on the plant where her larvae will hatch and dine on aphids.<br />
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Wendy Oberlander invited seniors at the Renfrew Park Community Centre to create a hand-written letter that we would illustrate and send in the mail. We had some lovely encounters and conversations with some folks sending love through the post box.<br />
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We talked about roses, ice cream and moonlit journeys by air. It's touching how deeply the letter-writers cared about the loved ones they were corresponding with.<br />
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Wendy and I created little cartoons which they enclosed in their letters--achieving a different kind of cross-pollination! Wendy will be doing this letter-writing activity at the summer camp at the community centre too. So much fun!<br />
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It's that time of the year when the Nootka roses and thimbleberries are blooming, which means these dark velvety Andrena mining bees emerge from the ground and start swimming in stamens!<br />
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There is a suite of pollinators that visit thimbleberry blooms, all playing a role in the survival of this native shrub. How many different kinds of bees can you find in these blossoms?<br />
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As you can see here, the back legs of the bee are covered with dense branched hairs (setae) which are perfect for collecting the golden yellow pollen.<br />
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The blossoms have a subtly crinkly texture.<br />
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Take a moment to visit these bees in the shrub behind the community centre, near the playground.<br />
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Take the time to wish the bees well, and to thank them for their fabulous work. Soon the little red berries will grace these bushes because of the bees and their friends.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-91816192078157088912018-05-07T09:37:00.001-07:002018-05-07T09:38:04.892-07:00From Our Home to Yours: An invitation to Participate in a Letter-Writing Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are so many wonderful things happening in the Ravine and outside the Renfrew Park Community Centre. The bees are buzzing in the blooms! <br />
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We'd like to take this chance to participate in a letter-writing project with artist Wendy Oberlander called From Our Home to Yours.<br />
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How does it work?<br />
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First, you write a letter--not an e-mail, but a hand-written letter to someone you've been meaning to communicate with lately. What do you write about? Anything you like, keeping in mind as part of this process it will be shared with another person. Why not include some notes about what's in bloom right now?<br />
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After you've written the letter, bring it in on Friday May 25th @1 pm in Room 110 and we will swap letters with another person.<br />
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You will read and illustrate each other's letters. It's so much fun!<br />
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We've got all the materials, including the envelopes. One you've got the letter addressed and sealed, we'll mail it off for you!<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Letters: from our home to yours</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">You are invited to write a
letter that you would like to send off to a family member or friend - someone
who lives close by, or someone who lives far away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">This letter does not need to
be long - just a friendly ‘hello’ that shares news of your day-to- day life, or
maybe news of a special birthday or holiday. We would be happy to have letters
of less than 10 sentences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Please bring your letter
written on paper, or printed on paper from a computer, to Renfrew Community
Centre on Friday, May 4 or Friday, May 25. We will meet after the Community
meal in Room 110. If you wish to email a copy of the letter, please send it to
teamsuperbloom@gmail.com.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">When you bring your letter,
other community members will also have their letters. We will exchange letters
with others for each person to illustrate. Paper, paint, pencils, envelopes and
stamps will be available. You have the chance to create a unique letter that
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Don’t worry if drawing or
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">If you are not able to come to
either Friday lunch, and you really want to participate as a letter writer or a
letter artist, please talk to Lori or write an email to
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We had so much fun at preschool playing with seeds and making bumblebees!<br />
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The forsythia and daffodils and blooming, and spring is starting its bee-you-ti-ful super blooms! What a great time to work with the spring break camp on a rainy morning, making blooms for bees. What a creative bunch!<br />
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Well it's certainly clear there are some passionate gardeners in the Renfrew Park community. Y'all went wild for seeds at the annual seed swap!<br />
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Bergamot and peppermint--both are great plants for bees!!! Many thanks to West Coast Seeds for their generous seed donation. These have all gone to good homes.</div>
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Some seeds were free some were available for a small donation or by trading seeds.<br />
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We'd all LOVE to know what species of gourd this is. Does anyone know?<br />
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Borage is soooo good for bees that I call it "bee porridge"! The blue star-shaped flowers are edible and you can make a calming tea with the leaves.<br />
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More future bee food! I brought some fennel seeds from my garden--beeloved by ladybugs and teeny tiny species of bees.<br />
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There's a ton of great gardening books for everyone at the Renfrew Public Library. And don't forget to come to my talk at the library Sunday, April 1st (1:30 pm) and learn all about gardening for bumblebees. I've just taken an intensive bumblebee course, and I'm excited to share my new knowledge! And I'll bring some more seeds OF COURSE!<br />
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Another mystery: Some lovely looking green beans, but the package is in Italian!<br />
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Thanks to everyone who came out and good luck with your gardens!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-73303799569597096902018-03-04T11:31:00.002-08:002018-03-04T11:33:16.062-08:00Pink Shirt Day at Renfrew Park Community Centre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a fun time we had on Pink Shirt day. The members of the Youth Council and Madame Beespeaker collaborated to create an event promoting kindness. The youth made buttons designed by participants and we gave away pink lemonade, origami hearts, felt hearts and seeds for the bees. We helped the community send a strong message that bullying needs to be made extinct! Let's help each other bloom with kindness and love.<br />
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It's traditional to wear red and gold clothing, but some other colours are acceptable--like pink!<br />
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The lobby at the Renfrew Park Community Centre is rockin' the ladybug motif! Hi! I'm Madame Beespeaker, leader of a team of artists and creative folks who are going to help your community bloom all year long! I'm best known for my efforts to help save our native bees, but I'm diversifying my portfolio, so I've been doing some research on other insects.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Did you know ladybugs are considered a symbol of good luck in many cultures. Even better, if one lands on you and you take the time to count the spots before it flies off, you have passed the ladybug test and you'll have even better luck!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is a story from Europe that a plague of pests was ravaging the crops in the
Middle Ages. When farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary, swarms of ladybugs came to
the rescue. They ate the pests and saved the crops. So the Brits named the
beetles after “Our Mary” and dropped “bug” because of the negative connotations
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">These
beetles are in the order Coleoptera in the Coccinelladae family. There are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">about 4, 500 species of ladybugs in the
world!!!</b> They are beetles, but not “true bugs”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Harlequin ladybug, introduced
for IPM is displacing native species of ladybugs in North America. It can be
ID-ed by the M shape on the pronotum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> This is a Harlequin ladybug on some borage (<i>Borago officinalis</i>) in my garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This
species loves to hibernate in our antiquated house and so our son wanted to adopt one
and try to keep it as a pet. Not everyone is so fond of sharing scores of
ladybugs with their living space. Better them than the marmorated stink bug, I
say! Did you know the a group of the critters
is called a "loveliness" of ladybirds? I can guarantee that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a group of stink bugs however, is not
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I was delighted to find a citizen science
program called <a href="http://www.lostladybug.org/howto.php">The Lost Ladybug
Project</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They are looking for people to find our rare 9-spotted ladybug. If you
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plants like fennel, hops and yarrow attract ladybugs to your garden. Native lupins and bleeding heart are also great host plants. You'll find that when the aphids move in to your garden, the ladybugs are sure to follow. No need to buy them, just create a welcoming environment and the cavalry will arrive when they are needed.</span><br />
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It was a cold and rainy morning in January when my son and I headed for the bus to catch the skytrain to Slocan Park. There were seven of us that gathered at the official meeting point, and after some deliberation and detective work, we discovered a sign that directed us to another location.<br />
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We found the site tent only to discover our leader from Evergreen had gone off in search of us. So after this comedy of errors we were given tools and told to remove invasive Himalayan blackberry. I must admit, my heart sank. I've done this before and I know how hard it is under the best of conditions, let alone in soggy conditions.<br />
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Anyone who eats these blackberries should try this job. When you see how deep and gnarly the roots of these plants are, and you've had your skin ripped by thorns a few times, you'll appreciate how thuggish they are. The worst situation is when you've got a patch of native plants like thimbleberry and the blackberries have intertwined their roots among the good plants. Those blackberry vines are fast growers and everywhere they touch the ground they can start to root. This is why you can't just "crop and drop" the cuttings. They need to be dried and safely composted.<br />
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Himalayan blackberries are not native to British Columbia. They squeeze out other plants, causing a significant loss in biodiversity of plant material, meaning a loss in many other wild native species of plants, insects and animals. Those tasty berries fall on the ground and the seeds sprout. Birds eat the berries and spread the seeds in their poop. If you've ever had them in your garden, or your neighbor's garden you know how tough it is to get rid of this invader. (We do have a native blackberry (<i>Rubus ursinus</i>) in this province. The fruit is much smaller and the vines have blue stems. It grows more like a ground cover than an upright shrub.)<br />
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These holly trees are also foreign invaders. We had the tools to take out some of the smaller trees, but it takes big machinery to get out the larger ones. We cut off as many branches as possible, then cut the trunk down with a hand saw. Then we used a "weed wrench" to pry out the root ball. It was very satisfying to get those roots outta there!!!!<br />
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Meanwhile, back in the blackberry patch, we were getting quite mucky and accumulating a pile of brambles to haul away to the compost. Those of you who have taken my classes will see the danger in the photo below. NEVER leave a rake or shovel on the ground!!!!!!!! That's a big safety hazard. Also, wherever you are using cutters be sure to shout "CLEAR!!!" before you go anywhere a branch someone else is holding.<br />
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I discovered a sweet temporary garden planted in burlap sacks. This is a great idea in a situation where you are working with a site in progress. I worked to extricate as much of the blackberry that had crept in as I could. This site is marked for significant restoration, so depending on the timeline we may or may not have time to plant some pollinator flowers in this little garden. Stay tuned for more information.<br />
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Sunflower stalks mark the edge of the pollinator garden. <br />
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More shovels on the ground. Ahhhhh! <br />
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I believe this is a gall formed by the <a href="https://tryoncreek.wordpress.com/tag/gall-insects/">thimbleberry gall wasp</a>. It burrows in the stem and lays its eggs inside. I noticed the blackberry didn't have any galls at all. It's interesting that even the stems of this native plant hosts at least one species of insect. Thimbleberry supports a host of insects, including several species of mining bees and bumblebees.<br />
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One of the most important tasks of the work party was removing garbage from the site. The cleaner the ravine, the less likely it is to be used as a garbage dump. The safety of anyone working or playing in the ravine can be compromised by broken glass and other hazardous materials. <br />
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If you are interested in trying your hand at eco-restoration, please sign up for <a href="https://www.evergreen.ca/whats-on/event/uncover-your-creeksrenfrew-ravine/">Evergreen's next work party on the third Sunday in February (Feb 25)</a>. You'll have a chance to work alongside some of the members of the Superbloomer team!!!!! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-73092624542898822532018-02-11T05:50:00.000-08:002018-02-11T05:53:30.590-08:00Family Day: Channel Your Inner Ladybug!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had so much fun creating ladybug bunting on Family Day!!!!<br />
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Special thanks to all the teens who volunteered at this event, working six hours of their time on a Saturday! So generous!!!!<br />
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Look for the bunting to be installed soon in the lobby of the community centre.<br />
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It's been such a privilege to work with superbloomers of all ages at the Renfrew Park Communty Centre this week!!<br />
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Curiosity Shared is happiness doubled. Students study the life cycle of ladybugs.<br />
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We discovered some donated blingy art supplies, so we're gonna make it shine!!!<br />
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Teen tech makes the music happen!!! Thanks for a great week everyone!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999836954068537340.post-9850744319332301102018-02-02T15:48:00.002-08:002018-02-02T16:04:04.067-08:00Cozy Crafternoons at Renfrew Park Community Centre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Ground Hog Day!!!!!!! It's that time of the year when we wonder how long it is until the flowers are blooming and the bees are buzzing again. This is a great time to hunker down and get some of that winter mending done--whether it's a broken heart or a moth-ravaged sweater.<br />
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Have you caught the scent of sweet box blooming now? Have you seen the first snow drops, witch hazel blossoms, and hazelnut catkins? Challenge yourself to get outside and catch sight of those first crocus buds. Spring is on its way!!!!<br />
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I've really enjoyed meeting the folks who come to the Thursday craft circle at the Renfrew Park Community Centre. Jennifer is a creative and skilled craftsperson who can look at a complicated item an whip up a pattern so we can make it too.<br />
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Here's a fun hand-sewn coaster you can make out of squares of cotton. Jennifer's got a knack for recycling used clothing and turning them into useful items like coasters and handkerchiefs. These are great for those people aspiring to the zero waste lifelstyle. <br />
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Here's how the clever coaster hugs the stem of your wine glass. (The parfait glass is just for show.)<br />
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Craft club members can bring in items they made or bought if they want to try to try to make something similar. I love this cute ladybug finger puppet! There are still spaces available for people to sign up for the craft club Thursdays from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm. Bring a craft and share your skillz, or just sign up and drop in!<br />
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After craft club I'll be working every Thursday afternoon with the teen leadership committee. These students are really busy making things happen in their community. It's really inspiring to hang out with them.<br />
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We're working on a Valentine's project for local seniors.<br />
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We're recycling felted wool used clothing people can use to patch up holes in their favorite sweaters.<br />
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We're packaging up seeds for the bees and getting ready for the seed swap in March. Do you have a sweater that needs mending? I'll be doing a drop-in mending station on Sunday from 2-4 pm at the Renfrew Park Community Centre. Let's give your sweaters some TLC! <br />
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