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Volume 2 || Issue 5

May, 2025:
Youth Service Month
MAY 17: Epic Day of Service!

Our natural environment dictates our food security. Climate change, paired with our factory farming practices and short-term profit-driven economic system, have depleted the health of our soils. Those are all critical issues.

A Rocha is a worldwide organization that offers solutions through regenerative farming, contributing to local food security, particularly for the most vulnerable in our communities. We are fortunate to have an A Rocha farm located right in South Surrey.

Our Epid Day of Service consisted in helping prepare the garden beds, manage weeds, planting seedlings, and caring for the soil's health.

It was a very fun, educational, and hands on Earth event!

 

CRESCENT BEACH: CLEANUP

Have you ever thought of the importance of a clean shoreline?
The health of creatures on both land and sea depend on it.

In coordination with the White Rock - South Surrey Climate Corps, we hosted a Crescent Beach Cleanup in South Surrey!  The event was open to the public and designed to engage folks of all ages in a meaningful, hands-on environmental action.

Along with removing shoreline debris, we’ll have educational material, light snacks & refreshments, and a chance to connect as a community around shared environmental values.

Thank you to all volunteers that came out on this rainy day and helped clean our shores and waterways! 
 
Truly incredible to see people's commitment to caring for Nature, and being in such excellent company, the rain didn't even matter.
 
Many birds were enjoying the rainy day, adding melodic background music to our clean-up walk!
Here is a Red-wing blackbird, I love their trilling electric call!
Have you heard it?
In pre-colonial times, this was a significant location for Indigenous tribes.
The tidal mudflats were good for clam digging and wild berries (especially cranberries). There is also a weir site located nearby the Nicomekl and Serpentine River.
The area was part of Snokomish territory until a smallpox epidemic in 1850 forced the survivors and their lands to be amalgamated into the Semiahmoo First Nation.
 
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