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I can't find the clip to share directly, but if you watch the YouTube 'live' feed or the Tubi 'live' feed today, it should come back around at about the :23 mark of each hour.

Not much new information, however I think it's important to know they're talking about it on the main broadcast channel. Unfortunately they're framing it as "Bill C-3 is bogging down the system and people with brand new children abroad can't get their certs to be able to get them home to Canada. ( Insert sound bite from Conservatives saying they warned about this)"

The positive note is that with the pressure, they might get the system functioning to help G1s (as it should) and the other Gs might get through, too.

So, yay for visibility I guess!

Edit: Thanks to dissentmemo for the link! The program it aired on was The National.

https://youtu.be/6kGu9U2aW7Q?si=l9jNLZRjPtrHL55h

I'm really enjoying North of America, learning about the relationships that existed around the "border" areas of Canada back around the American Revolution. I think it really helps to understand our long histories.

I started listening to Canada Alone a while ago, but it was so sad to consider what it was proposing, I stopped listening. With recent events, I'll be picking it up again.

https://volunteer.shpbeds.org/opportunities/pAChuguCxd

Personally, I'm curious why he's doing this. Is he really just that petty? Or is this part of a bigger plan to stoke anti-American/anti-Canadian sentiment?

Don't forget CandianaFest's Can-Am Peace Jam is Sept. 19!

We had one at my apartment complex in Oshtemo. You might have one around, too!

https://www2.dnr.state.mi.us/ors/Survey/44

Just saw this and love it! Who else is offering cooking classes (or food growing) this fall?

Kvcc also has knife skills classes and the Food Innovation Center has a full catalog.

I wish I was in town for this, it looks so interesting! Keith digs up such interesting facts in his digital collections at the Library. Here's his article about the subject from a few months ago, which is probably the core of the presentation: https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/towns/oshtemo-village/

...slowly, and when the office was closed so I couldn't be seen actively planting. ;)

It's at the far end of the property so management rarely goes by it. But my neighbors walk by it all the time.

I was very nervous about planting because I didn't want to get in trouble and knew it could be ripped out at any moment, but I explained to the new Groundskeeper that I was just trying to buy time for the pineapple mint to take over. (It's in a concrete island, so couldn't escape) Thyme also survived the winter, surprisingly.

I started filing in the empty space with old potatoes and onions and tomatoes from my cabinets. Eventually I expanded into planting old seeds I had been carrying around for years... a sort of Hail Mary "if it grows it grows".

Purple green beans came up. As did a row of zinnia. When plants got clearanced at a local nursery I planted snapdragons and pansies. Then purple sage, dianthus, kale, pok choi, and a purple mini pepper. (Slugs destroyed the pepper). It was important to me that things be edible (but 'disguised' as ornamental)

I was AMAZED at how the garden helped me connect with my neighbors. So many neighbors passed me working in the garden (at times no one was in the office) and told me how they looked forward to seeing what was growing and blooming. One neighbor said it reminded her of her home in Jordan, where they call snapdragons "fish mouths".

I gave tours and invited people to harvest what they wanted. Several took me up on it. It has been super satisfying.

The apartment is filling it in on Monday as part of a rework of the property design.

I'm sad to see it go, but I knew the day would come. I'm so glad I went ahead and did it anyway. It really was magical while it lasted, especially against a backdrop of despair, and I'll hold those moments in my heart forever.

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn

Our dreams of homeownership won't be coming true for a while and our baby dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) we had hoped to plant there is due for an upgrade of root space. (We grew it from a less than a foot tall sapling) We'd like it to go to a public arboretum or park in Kalamazoo so we can visit it in the future.

It's a "living fossil", thought to be extinct in the 1940's, so we'd prefer it to go somewhere other people can enjoy it and appreciate its history, too.

Does anyone have a direct contact to an organization who could give it a new, permanent home in their collection ASAP? We're running out of time to move it and don't have a vehicle that can transport it safely, either, so they'd have to come get it near 9th and Stadium.

Thanks for any leads!

Edit to add for those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

And since it came up last year, Wedel's normally sells seeds for the regular market price printed on the packet... no markup.

Who else has cheap seed right now?

Seeds can last MUCH longer than the season they're packed for... if kept in a cool, dry, dark place.

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Prepare for food prices to go up and incidents of contamination to increase. Grow food for yourself, friends, and neighbors if possible. Find the resources and education while they exist and share what you find with others. Form a co-operative with neighbors if you can (trade skills, produce, etc)

City Prepping is a good, rational, non-partisan place to start.

Check KVCC Food Hub for Community Classes involving growing or foraging or using plants

KVCC also has Culinary Community Classes like cooking and knife skills classes and a FOOD PRESERVATION CLASS in November