/members-area/b/blog/posts/happy-earth-day-2025-to-the-e14-communityTechnically Earth Day here in the US is on April 22 but it is generally celebrated for the whole week. Reminded me of it this morning because I need to watch my son&#39;s dog while he participates in a cleanup activity in downtown Portlan...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/happy-earth-day-2025-to-the-e14-communityTue, 29 Apr 2025 20:31:41 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ab600cc0-c17e-498a-b18f-4bcc2c82fcf7genebren1<p>The other day, my wife took this short video inside our garden.&nbsp; Make sure to turn up the sound for a greeting from the birds and the bees.</p> <p><a title="Bees and Birds, from our backyard." href="https://youtube.com/shorts/nJzDX0f9w1s?feature=share" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" data-e14adj="t">https://youtube.com/shorts/nJzDX0f9w1s?feature=share</a></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28855&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/happy-earth-day-2025-to-the-e14-communitySun, 27 Apr 2025 18:15:58 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ab600cc0-c17e-498a-b18f-4bcc2c82fcf7DAB0<p>I remember the first Earth Day.</p> <p>I was a senior in HS.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28855&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/happy-earth-day-2025-to-the-e14-communityFri, 25 Apr 2025 19:44:45 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ab600cc0-c17e-498a-b18f-4bcc2c82fcf7genebren1<p>Happy Earth Day to you too!</p> <p>We celebrated Earth Day Tuesday at the Children&#39;s vegetable gardening program that&nbsp;my wife runs.&nbsp; She has 50+ home schooled kids and their parents, for 12 Tuesdays, twice a year (Fall and Spring).&nbsp; For Earth Day, the children were encouraged to notice all the insects in area and then they water colored a picture of a ladybug in the outdoor class area.&nbsp; &nbsp;I spent most of the morning planting two grape vines that were given to us by one of the garden staff members and setting up an arbor for the grapes.</p> <p>I am a be fan off iNaturalist. We have been using it for years now and I have 140 observations submitted</p> <p>The spring has been bringing us some rain (1.25&quot; the other day) and our yard is really bringing us flowers. The majority of the plants have overwintered and are thriving with the rain.&nbsp; We have been super busy pulling weeds and remove invasive or otherwise unwanted plants (we are donating weeds and cuttings to the dear, shredding some for mulch, compositing and also filling our waste can with seedy or aggressive plants).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28855&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">