🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We spent time outside this week helping to clean and prep the community gardens on Thomas & Western in Frogtown. It was fun hanging out with Metric Giles of Community Stabilization Project and vibing in the rain and sunshine. 🌧️🌞
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🐝 We made reusable wraps with beeswax collected from our hives and we’re excited to use them at home & around the office! 🌱 We went to the greenhouse to work on transplanting seedlings - see our previous plant sale post for more details on where you can purchase plants we’ve grown for your gardens. 🪺 We had a lot of fun building Bluebird and Wood Duck houses that’ll be placed in Ramsey county parks once we’re done. Conservation chaos is back in session! 😁✌🏼
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 ☃️ Goodbye to winter shifts! Youth spent their last week of this season in the greenhouse and visiting Como Zoo. 🍄 Went exploring with our Crew Leads to take a break from our laptops. 😅 We had a great time wandering and discovering many interesting things along the way. 🌼 Our interns are now on spring break — have fun and see you all in a week! 🌱 Seeds we’ve started in the greenhouse are starting to pop. Plant sales for native perennials begin April 22nd and will be available at the E 7th Mississippi Market location.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 ✨ Interns enjoyed art and willow sorting this week (check out Tuesday’s post!). ⛑️ CPR training continued - almost all of our youth have been re-certified/certified! 👏🏼 🚙 Driver’s Ed began this week! Interns are able to take this course during their work hours and provided at no charge to them. Lots of new drivers on the road in the near future. 😁 🌥️ More outdoor exploration + dissection scopes + close up examinations - check out the photos of lichen and a feather we found. 💃🏻 Interns also attended the annual Right Track Career Exploration Day to share their work experiences with other youth, as well as recruit them to work at Urban Roots this summer. 🐓 Ginger says “Have a safe weekend everyone! ✌🏽”
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 What are we up to this week?? 👀 🩹⛑️ Continuing CPR/First Aid training. 🌱 More greenhouse planting. 🌞 Spending time outside. 🌿 We made homes for our 👽 and 🌱 friends aka terrariums. 🦠🧫 Used microscopes to look at more-than-human beings up close. Kinda cool tbh 👁️👄👁️ Content brought to you by Conservation interns. 😁
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🦋 This week we discussed topics and brainstormed ideas for outreach and programming. 🌶️ We also blended our fermented veggies and taste tested our hot sauces. 💻 We zoomed Judy, our prior Cook Fresh Coordinator, who now lives in Vietnam. Thank you for waking up early to spend time with us despite the 13-hour time difference! We enjoyed hearing what you’ve been up to and talking about cultural differences, diaspora, indigeneity, traveling and food. 🎨 While zooming Judy, youth painted, folded origami, made pipe cleaner crafts, and of course we had face/eye masks for self-care. 🌱🐦⬛ On Saturday, we had fun engaging with community at Freeze/Thaw Fest at Lake Phalen. We led a seed sowing activity and youth who are participating in MN DNR’s Bird by Bird program led a bird-related activity. 🦅 Today, the crew went to Carpenter Nature Center for the Masters of the Sky live bird programming, where they met and learned about an African Gray Parrot, 3 varieties of Hawks, Peregrine Falcon, American Kestrel, 3 types of Owls, and a Harpy Eagle. World Bird Sanctuary from St. Louis, Missouri, put on an amazing show. 👏🏼
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 This week we took a much needed arts and crafts break. Interns experimented with polymer clay and created so many cool things. Check out how talented they are….and see the last photo for an update on the bacterial growth that has occurred since last week! 😁 Happy Friday everyone!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We’ve taken over winter youth shifts!!! 😁 This week we… 🦠 Learned about bacteria through taking swabs of random things around the office— we’ll see what starts to grow in the coming days! We also picked out and cut ingredients to start the fermentation process to make hot sauce. 🐟 Made a pit stop in Lake City and found some interesting things along the shorelines of Lake Pepin. 🦅 Then we visited @nationaleaglecenter to learn more about both Bald and Golden Eagles. Our interns acquired identification skills that would help them distinguish the two types of Eagles in both their juvenile and adult forms before heading out on a birdwatching tour with their binoculars in hand. Shout out to MN DNR’s Bird by Bird program for helping us organize and plan this fun field trip!
📣 #TeamConservation is so excited to share this news: Congratulations to one of our Crew Leads, Moua Yang, for receiving the 2024 Young Watershed Steward Award from @capitolregionwatershed 👏🏼 Thank you for being who you are and for everything you do at Urban Roots, in community, and beyond. We are all so proud of you and are honored to be working alongside you!
What a weekend at the Huckabee Show in Hendersonville, TN ! ( @huckabeeontbn ). Here are several production photos from our segment. It was an absolute blast being invited as a guest on a production of this magnitude. We so appreciate the hospitality of the staff, and of Governor Mike Huckabee. (PS: Awesome raptor colleague, Emily Duke, and myself made this segment look extremely easy. It is Not! In the future I'll write more about this and how our birds are able to be in this kind of setting and be outstanding representatives of their wild cousins) All photos property, and courtesy of: Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)
It was an honor be invited by Governor Mike Huckabee ( @huckabeeontbn ) for the Huckabee Show (airing Jan 27, 2024) to be featured on his program. Governor Huckabee and staff were wonderful, and it was such a honor to be able to meet fellow guest, the one and only Gov. Sarah Palin @sarahpalin97 - who also had a blast meeting Maximus! Also, fellow guest and a super human, hero Dr. Lois Lee Children of the Night Inc. ( @childrenofthenightinc ) who rescues children for the clutches of incredible evil. (Please check out and consider supporting her efforts). So wonderful to meet @junebugcomedy, June Colson, who was outstanding in comedy. Many thanks to Emily Duke for helping. It would not have been possible without her ! Thank You! @ekduke65
🇩🇪Darf ich vorstellen? AHMED ist ein Waisenkind und lebt in Kenia. Seine Mutter ist gestorben und zwar im Tsavo Nationalpark. Tagelang verblieb Ahmed bei seiner toten Mutter. Eine Chance auf Leben hatte das kleine Elefantenbaby nur durch Rettung. 🚑 Der Kenya Wildlife Service griff ein, als die Ranger meldeten, dass die Familie längst weitergezogen ist. Ein Zuhause und eine neue Familie mit anderen Waisen fand Ahmed beim Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi. Aufgezogen von Elefantenpflegern im Schutzgebiet, fühlt sich Ahmed trotz Trauma wieder wohl. Wenn die Zeit gekommen ist, wird der kleine Elefant seinen Weg zurück nach Tsavo finden und dort sanft mit anderen Elefanten ausgewildert werden. Ahmed ist eines unserer vielen Patenkinder, durch die wir den Kenya Wildlife Service und die Arbeit des David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust unterstützen und das seit 2018 und somit dieses Jahr schon 5 Jahre lang. Folge der Wildnis… nach Kenia! Euer Markus 🇬🇧May I introduce? AHMED is an orphan and lives in Kenya. His mother died in Tsavo National Park. Ahmed stayed with his dead mother for days. The only way the little baby elephant had a chance of life was through rescue. 🚑 The Kenya Wildlife Service intervened when the rangers reported that the family had long since moved on. Ahmed found a home and a new family with other orphans at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi. Raised by elephant keepers in the sanctuary, Ahmed feels well again despite his trauma. When the time is right, the little elephant will find his way back to Tsavo where he will be gently released into the wild with other elephants. Ahmed is one of our many sponsored children, through whom we have been supporting the Kenya Wildlife Service and the work of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust since 2018, making it 5 years this year. Follow the wilderness... to Kenya! Markus #artenschutznews #artenschutz #dreamwork #dreamjob #teamconservation #Nationalpark #kenya #sheldricktrust #elephants #elefanten #paten #weisen #tierschützer #wildlifezeit #wildlifeseries #thegermanwildlifeservice #zooundtierparkservice #naturphotography #tierfilmer #wildtime #wildlifeconservation #wildanimal
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Since our interns are currently on break from shifts…we thought we’d showcase what Conservation staff do. 😆 🍟✌🏼 David, Program Director, modeling the adult Happy Meal he won from a game of white elephant. 🏄🏻♀️ Thia, Program Manager, doing a lil’ wobbly surf. 🤸🏻♂️ Alex, Program Coordinator, showing off gymnastics skillz. 🌞🌼 Moua, Crew Lead, transforms into a ray of sunshine or maybe a flower. Who knows. 😁 BONUS: We were inspired by our team comedians, the Harvest Crew & Crew Lead. 🌟 Wishing everyone lots of laughter this season! 🌟
🌿 Exciting News! 🌿 Please join us in welcoming Brenda Cervantes to our team as the new Fundraising Coordinator for The Foundation for the Conservation of Salamanders! With a B.S. in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy, and a concentration in Ecology from CSU Monterey Bay, Brenda's expertise and passion for nature make her the perfect addition. During her time in school, Brenda contributed to vital research on California Tiger Salamanders and lent her skills to a biological reserve in South America. Post-graduation, she continued her impactful journey as a monitoring biologist and technical writer for special status species in California. We are so excited to have Brenda on board as we continue to work together to make a positive impact on salamander research and conservation 🎉 #SalamanderConservation #FCSal #TeamConservation #salamanders #salamandersaturday #salamander #conservation #research
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Some outdoor shenanigans before we take a 3-week break from youth shifts. 😁 🥾🍂🌅 This week we went on “winter” adventures and enjoyed sunset hikes at Crosby Farm and Battle Creek Regional Parks. We had so much fun outside exploring in this season and watching the sunset together. 🖌️🎨 We also continued channeling our inner artists and made a lot of progress with sign painting. 😁 Just for laughs - Sometimes we have impromptu fashion shows trying on clothes donated to our youth closet. 💅🏼✨
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 This week was super eventful and collaborative. Here’s what we did— 🖼️ Stopped by @indigeroots to see the Rooted Legacy exhibit in person. 🫶🏼 🎨 Started painting signs for some of our worksites. 👒 Had a casual day in the office working while wearing Hmong hats + mini impromptu staff photoshoot. 😆 🧹Cleaned our office,🎈Decorated, 🥘 and cooked, to prep for our first Hmong New Year celebration organized by youth. 🎉 Had a blast sharing culture, traditions, narratives, food, laughter, dance, games, and well wishes with all our peers, staff, and board members who were able to spend time with us this xyoo tshiab.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🪵⛄️ Earlier this week, we worked with Garden staff and interns to harvest willow for future weaving projects. We also spent creative time together making winter/holiday inspired plant pots to take home or decorate the office. 🍵🫖 Over the summer and fall, we harvested Yarrow, Bergamot, wild Thyme, Mullein root, Dandelions, and Anise Hyssop that we’ve planted and grown from seeds (with the exception of Mullein, Thyme and Dandelion). They’ve been hanging up to dry for several months, so we decided it was time to have some fun mortar and pestling our medicinal plants into a tea blend. Everyone enjoyed the aroma and taste of our trial run tea blend. It was soothing and delicious, perfect for this time of year!
We are growing! 😍🎉 Thanks to years of dedicated work and a successful 2023, we were able to acquire the neighbouring property to our Centro IDEAL in Pilar! We’re looking to start a visitor centre in our current living room, moving the common areas to the new house with an outside patio for our staff and interns to enjoy the sun ☀ The extra space will also allow us to expand our museum and open an exhibition of our collection for Pilarenses and tourists 🏛🦋 Since the house has been empty for some time, there is still lots of cleaning and renovation work to be done before we can move in but we’re excited to take on the work and have already started to clean up the garden area! 🪓🍃💪🏼 Swipe for some before/ after impressions 👉🏻 ——————————————————————————— ¡Estamos creciendo! 😍🎉 Gracias a años de trabajo dedicado y un exitoso 2023, pudimos comprar la propiedad vecina a nuestro Centro IDEAL en Pilar! Pensamos iniciar un centro de visitantes en nuestra actual sala de estar, trasladando las áreas comunes a la nueva casa con un patio exterior para que nuestro staff y pasantes puedan disfrutar del sol ☀ El espacio adicional también nos permitirá ampliar nuestro museo y abrir una exposición de nuestra colección para Pilarenses y turistas 🏛🦋 Como la casa ha estado vacía durante algún tiempo, todavía hay mucho trabajo de limpieza y renovación por hacer antes de que podamos mudarnos, pero estamos entusiasmados con el trabajo y ya hemos empezado a limpiar la zona del jardín! 🪓🍃💪🏼 Desliza para algunas impresiones de antes y después 👉🏻 #togetherparalatierra #wearegrowing #conservationngo #ngolife #ngosupport #nonprofitlife #conservationist #teamconservation #conservationjobs #conservationbiology #conservationresearch #conservationheroes #internwithus #internshipsabroad #internshipabroad #internshipopportunity #internshiplife #internlife #internshiplatinamerica #internlatinamerica #wildlifeconservation #newhome #newhomeconstruction #beforeandafter
🇩🇪Sie ist die Zukunft einer Art, die kurz vor dem Verschwinden steht. Mit ihrem Alter von über einem Jahr ist die kleine Spitzmaulnashorndame viel zu klein. Darf ich vorstellen: Raha. Sie ist ein Waisenkind und wurde völlig ausgehungert und zurückgelassen aufgefunden. Der David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust nahm das Nashornbaby auf und versorgt es seither so gut es geht. Es hat sich erholt, seine beiden Ziehväter als Mama-Ersatz liebgewonnen und nimmt zu. Wahrscheinlich wird Raha immer kleiner bleiben als ihre Spitzmaulnashornfamilie. Sie ist in guten Händen und wird professionell betreut, bis sie sich auch langsam an die Wildnis gewöhnen kann. Folge der Wildnis... dieses Mal zum Sheldrick Wildlife Trust nach Kenia. Natürlich unterstütze ich weiterhin den Trust, um noch mehr Gutes tun zu können. Beispielsweise unterhält der Sheldrick Trust auch die Fahrzeuge der Ranger vom Kenya Wildlife Service und gibt Wilderern keine Chance. Euer Markus 🇬🇧She is the future of a species that is on the verge of extinction. At over a year old, the little black rhinoceros is far too small. Let me introduce you: Raha. She is an orphan and was found completely starved and abandoned. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust took the baby rhino in and has been caring for it as best they can ever since. It has recovered, grown fond of its two foster fathers as a mummy substitute and is gaining weight. Raha will probably always remain smaller than her black rhino family. She is in good hands and is being professionally cared for until she can slowly get used to the wild. Follow the wilderness... this time to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. Of course, I continue to support the Trust so that I can do even more good. For example, the Sheldrick Trust also maintains the vehicles of the Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and does not give poachers a chance. Markus #conservation #conservationist #davidsheldrickwildlifetrust #sheldricktrust @sheldricktrust #raha #rhino #rhinoceros #rhinos #kenya #safariboy #safari #safariguide #wildlifeconservation #wildlifezeit #wildjob #wilddream #abenteuerkenia #safariland @safariland_stukenbrock #teamplayer #teamconservation #artenschütz
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🌅 We enjoyed this week’s warm weather by letting out energy, running around Thompson County Park. We watched the sunset together and it was magnificent! ✍🏼 We’ve been thinking a lot about signage for our worksites and used inspiration from our visit to the park to sketch out ideas for some painting projects this winter. 🍯 Honey bottling has begun! They can be purchased in the…nearish future. Stay tuned! 😁 🌱 Folx from the Metropolitan Council came out and facilitated engaging conversations around environmental justice. We got to share about the work we do, as well as discuss environmental policies we’d like to implement. Thanks for spending an evening with us!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🦅 We had the privilege of sitting down with @shawnhayesfalconry to ask questions and have conversations about his life and pathway to falconry. We’re all so inspired by your passion for birds and conservation! Also want to shout out the MN DNR’s Bird by Bird program and @urbanbirdcollective for their collaborative efforts that allowed us to bring youth to meet Shawn and view his amazing documentary, Game Hawker (Patagonia Films). 🌿 Market Garden youth joined us for an evening to explore Frogtown Farm and Park. We shared what we found inspiring about this space and…also had fun spending a lot of energy running around, climbing, swinging, and sliding. 😁 🧹 Daylight hours are no longer on our side. We’ve been cleaning after sunset to prep our spaces for their winter hibernation. 🥾 We toured Pig’s Eye Regional Park with Katie from @greatriverpassage to learn more about St. Paul’s largest, yet most polluted park, to start dreaming about what this place could become and which communities it can serve, as the early stages of planning begins for restoration.
At Rise, we love joining with the Huntsville Madison County Public Library @hmcplalabama to visit kids and teach about 2 of our favorite subjects: raptors and literacy. It is always a good time to read and learn - Many thanks to Kim Rozek for doing an outstanding job reading to the kids at YMCA Sprouting Scientists Program!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🌅 We had a fun, collaborative shift on Tuesday where youth and staff from all programs met with the U of M Science Deep Dive team at Rivoli to hear about their research findings from summer collections & testing. Then we worked together on projects while admiring the beautiful sunset. 🍂 Visited multiple rain gardens we’ve installed throughout the community and gave them a little haircut. 😁 Some seasonal clean up while keeping pollinator friends and their winter resting places in mind. ⚒️ We also continued our stair building project at Rivoli. Almost done! Check it out— it’s behind the hoop house.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🍁🎃 We had our annual Harvest Party, where staff and interns gathered to enjoy some apple cider pressing (and tasting!), honey extraction (more tasting!), soup and bread (we just keep eating 😆). There was also arts & crafts, music & dancing, and a lot of great conversations & laughs shared. 🌱 Huge thank you to United Healthcare Volunteers who helped us weed, mulch, & plant at Rivoli. We achieved a lot with your support! 🍂🍃 Interns teamed up with Garden and community to harvest sesame seeds, as well as continued working on the multiple projects occurring simultaneously at Rivoli. 🍬 We ended our week participating in the annual community Trunk r Treat. Youth from across programs were invited to celebrate and pass out candy & veggies in their costumes. Swipe to the end if you want to see a T-Rex doing jumping jacks. 🦖🤣
Everyday we remember our founder, David Shepherd - his dedication to wildlife conservation and of course, his fantastic artistic skills. 💕🎨 But today #InternationalArtistsDay, we’d like to honour all the incredible artists we work with and all those that contribute to our vital fundraising work. Set on the birthday of Pablo Picasso (born 1881), International Artists Day reminds us that the creative spark can be expressed in so many ways – as Picasso himself was not just a painter, but also sculptor, ceramicist, poet, and playwright! So, a huge thank you to you all – we know how hard you work, adding beauty to the world around us and enabling us to put the spotlight on key environmental messages as we creatively prompt the conversation about conservation! 🐘🙌 Happy #internationalartistsday 🎉 #artist #TheArtOfSurvival #FightProtectEngage #Conservation #WildlifeConservation #EndangeredSpecies #WorkingTogether #TeamConservation #WildlifeMovement #artforconservation #teamart
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Earlier this week, we visited Willowbrook to tackle Buckthorn and found that they were incredibly stubborn and refused to uproot. After some lopper action, interns managed to build a Buckthorn wall and…had fun tumbling through it. 😁 On Thursday, we invited Urban Roots staff and interns from across all programs to join us on a fun, outdoor adventure to the Arb. Thank you to @mn_arb for making this trip possible! We had a wonderful time exploring within the beautiful colors of autumn.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 This week, interns spent an afternoon collecting seeds from native plants, like Mountain Mint, a variety of Milkweeds, Black-eyed Susan, and more. We found a little, fuzzy friend in one of our seed bags afterwards. Swipe to find out who we found! 😁 Later in the week, we had our annual seed cleaning event with @mnhort It’s a fun process every year, getting together to sort through what we’ve collected, and learn how to separate and prepare seeds for the next part of their journey.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We’re still planting! We’ve been continuously working on the hillside restoration at Rivoli with hopes to see it flourish as a community space where we can learn and forage together. We’ve also been planting at our Harvest Park location to continue growing our native plants seed garden, and have been collecting seeds in the midst of all this. Join us next Thursday, Oct. 12th from 3:30-6:30 for our seed cleaning workshop! Bring your own seeds or come help us clean ours. 😊 For more information, email David Woods at [email protected].
Meet our vibrant interns making waves at Pantai Chakar Hutan! 🌟 Their boundless dedication fuels our mission. Swipe to get to know these passionate conservationists! 𝑻𝒂𝒌 𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒍, 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒂 𝒕𝒂𝒌 𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂... #TeamConservation #InternSpotlight #penyuwarrior #langtengahturtlewatch #kitajagapenyukita
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We started off the week at Rivoli where we continued planting a variety of trees, bushes, and forbs. Yesterday, the team helped @capitolregionwatershed plant a rain garden at Loeb Lake/Marydale Park. Swipe to see all the action!✨
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 🌱 On Tuesday, youth went back to the pocket park to continue planting & weeding. Lots of raspberries & strawberries. 🤞🏼They survive! 🌼 Thursday evening was dedicated to our ongoing restoration of the hillside at Rivoli. It’s looking more beautiful every season! 🌳 Many trees were grounded at Rivoli today thanks to extra helping hands from U of M folx and community volunteers.✨
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Fall youth shifts have begun! This season’s focus will be seed collection, planting, & weeding. Here’s what we’ve been working on: 🌳 We started collecting Bur and Red oak tree seeds (more varieties to come!) through a partnership with @nature_mn to help contribute toward their initiative of reforesting 1 million acres in Minnesota. 🌱 We’re hoping to plant 2,500 native trees, shrubs, flowers & grasses. We started working toward this goal by weeding and planting at our pocket park on Jessamine. This is a public, community space, so please come forage when the plants are ready! 🎉 Interns enjoyed food, hay rides, and sharing their stories at our fall fundraiser. We are so grateful to be part of this community— thank you! We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without all of you. 🫶🏼
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🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Summer programming ends today! 🥹👏🏼🙌🏼✨ We started our last week teaching El Rio Vista Rec Center summer campers how to fish and find macroinvertebrates. Then, we finished the day exploring Como Zoo in the rain. The rest of our week was spent at Rivoli working simultaneously on three projects: displaced species removal; building a bridge; and installing stairs. We also reviewed everything we learned this summer, from biomes, to plants, to water, to pollinators, birds, and fishing. 9 weeks flew by so quickly. Thank you interns!!— For being present this summer, engaging in education, and working hard in the heat. We appreciate each one of you and what you bring to and beyond our Urban Roots community!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Week 8 - One more week to go!✨ 🏹 Practiced them archery skillz all week! 🤍 Shout out to @ashaoutdoors for visiting us and sharing what you do with our youth! 🌱🦆🐟 Hosted Garden Seed Crew & shared what we do through plant identification, birding & fishing. 💧Thank you @capitolregionwatershed for hosting a water career & worksite tour! We had fun meeting folx to learn what they do and enjoyed visiting sites to connect the impacts they have on natural and human communities. 🎣 Fished together and learned about the history of fishing in MN. 🎨 Visited @springboardarts to learn about their space and the resources they offer to community. Thanks for giving us a tour!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Week 7 over & done ✔️ This week we… ✂️ Snip snipped, chop chopped, saw sawed to clear the trail at one of our worksites. 🌳 Toured the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change plots at Crosby Farm Regional Park & helped cut vines from the fencing. 🐌 Hosted Cook Fresh interns and gave them a taste of Conservation through birding, plant identification & learning about the importance of macroinvertebrates as water quality indicators. 🦆 Learned about bird relatives and how we can deepen our relationships with them + practiced our birding & binocular skillz! 🐔 Hung out with our chickies 💕 🌱 Spent time tending to our pollinator garden at Battle Creek Regional Park. 🙌🏼 Keep up the great work interns. Thank you for EVERYTHING you do!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Week 6 focuses on pollinators! 🐸 We ventured through Quaking Bog to learn about plants we typically don’t see in parks where our restoration work takes place - lots of fungi, sundew, and treefrogs! 💦 Ran through sprinklers because it has been a HOT week! 🤍 Found a cool dragonfly exoskeleton while exploring Westwood Hills Nature Center. 🐝 Learned about bees & ate honey from our hives. We also talked about how essential they are to our lives & the human-made impacts that affect them. 🚐 Hid behind the van for shade. ⚡️ Laughed together while passing electricity through our hands at The Bakken Museum. 🦋 Shared silent moments with a Monarch Butterfly. We also talked about the Super Generation migration story & the fascinating ways they pass knowledge through multiple generations. 🖼️ Talked about how art impacts communities and how it can be used in conservation & environmental justice movements. 🎨 Made art! Come see them in person during Rivoli Bluff Bash tomorrow!✨ 🌳 Sawed down trees to create a trail on the hillside at Rivoli. ⭐️ Visited the amazing SMSC Cultural Center at Hoċokata Ti.
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Our week 5 focuses on the cultural history of St. Paul. This week we… 🏛️ Started off touring the State Capitol & memorial grounds, visiting the Landmark Center, the M museum, & finished with weeding & planting at our Pocket Park. 🐝 Met with friends from @capitolregionwatershed & Minnesota Valley NWR for another bumble bee survey, litter pick up & trail maintenance session. 🧘🏻♀️ Grounded ourselves through yoga led by Indigenous Lotus, followed by the Dakota cottonwood tree story, then nettle cordage, crown vetch removal & insect surveying with @wakantipi youth & crew. ✂️ Chopped down Burdock & Buckthorn. 🌳 A BIG thank you to Marisa Anywaush for spending time with us at Fort Snelling State Park to share your knowledge and familial ties to this place. 🛶 Paddled a section of the Minnesota River with Minnesota Valley NWR to continue learning about water together. Shout out to Lee Vue for joining us to talk about her paddling and career experiences! #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #mysaintpaul #nature #outdoors #canoeing #kayaking #paddling
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We’re already on week 4 of summer programming! Our learning theme this week is water.💧 Here’s what the team has been up to: 💦 Visited @mississippiwmo to learn about their watershed work. Thank you for sharing space with us! 🐟 Toured St. Anthony Falls Visitor Center & Lock and Dam & Stone Arch Bridge area to continue exploring and learning about the Mississippi River. 🐸 Walked through Uŋčí Makhá Park to further our understanding of stormwater management. 🚮💕 Visited the river to have conversations with this magnificent being, reflected on relationality & connectedness, & picked up litter along the shorelines at Crosby Farm Regional Park. Happy that our friends from Minnesota Valley NWR & @capitolregionwatershed could join us to share these nourishing moments. 🌱 Planted & weeded with volunteers from @adlergradschool. Thanks for spending a morning with us! 🐍 Found a cute Garter *snek* & gave it a *boop* 🔎 Sampling Macroinvertebrates & learning how these friends can teach us about water quality. Full schedule, but much gratitude✨ #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #mysaintpaul #nature #outdoors
Keep calm and Waddle on 🐧 Last day to snag the penguin pre order #WildlifeWarriors #ZooKeeper #ConservationMatters #ZooKeeperDaily #ProtectWildlife #AfricanPenguin #keepcalmandwaddleon #WildlifeAdvocate #ZooKeeperlife #ConservationHeroes #teamconservation #wildlifeconservation
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Swipe through the pics to see what interns have been up to this week! 🌸 Tending to our pollinator gardens. 🌿 Collecting Columbine flower seeds. 📱 Learning about wildlife friends while using iNaturalist. 🐝 Participating in a bumble bee survey with biologists from USFWS. 🌱 Planting native plant starts we grew from seeds we’ve collected. ☀️ Gathering with multiple community partners and their youth crews in green spaces. ⭐️ Catching and learning about dragonflies! 🌳 Listening to The Star in the Cottonwood Tree story & sharing our own stories about plant relatives. 💪🏼 More Buckthorn removal. 🏦 Thank you Winslow Capital for volunteering & learning alongside us and providing lunch for our crew! #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #mysaintpaul #nature #outdoors
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Summer programming has officially begun— That means our usual crew of 9 has expanded to 30+ youth interns! It has been a hot week, but we’re still outside doin’ our thing.✨ This week, interns are learning about our biomes, the importance of biodiversity, & introduction to plants. We are also learning the Indigenous histories of Mni Sóta Maḳoce & holding space for conversations on why BIPOC narratives are essential in the work we do. And of course, we are doing what the team does best— habitat restoration! #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork 😁 #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #mysaintpaul
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We had fun meeting folx and sharing community space this past weekend at @mnwaterfest Hopefully you were able to attend & stop by to chat with our team, made a 🐸 or 🐢 crown, or took home a spinning wheel prize. Don’t worry— we also got to enjoy the event through food, exploring other booths, fishing, some weight lifting, watching performances, and even canoeing! Until next year✨
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Shout out to our Crew Lead for delivering his first curriculum in the field! 👏🏼 Thanks for teaching the team about something you love doing. We talked about the history of fishing in Minnesota, the gifts of our waters, shared fishing (and cooking) stories, and held meaningful conversations about what sustainable fishing means to us. The crew got to do a little fishing as well. It was a good time even though luck wasn’t on our side today! #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #fishing
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Sweaty & sunshine kinda week 😁 On Tuesday, we started laying sod for a new project we’ll be working on at Battle Creek Regional Park. Today, we dug trenches in our gravel bed where the bare root trees will live until they’re ready to be given away to community members. Stay tuned for that if you’re interested in getting one for your yard!✨ #urbanrootsmn #nonprofit #minnesota #conservation #youthwork #mysaintpaul
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Experiential & place-based learning in urban green spaces is a priority in our program. We visited @dodgenaturecenter today and shared spring memories, likes (or dislikes!), and places we enjoy visiting in this season. Then we explored the grounds while surveying the flora and fauna— there were geese, turkeys, violets, a gigantic fungi, and even a Green Heron. It was a lot of fun! 🎉
#TeamConservation Makahappy ang year 2023 sa atoa, patdan guro na to nig 4D 😁😁 Murag giblessed jud ta ni Pantaron bah 😂😂 Bitaw oie goodluck sa atong tanan.. Windy Alfar Goodluck sa imong new family, di sila magmahay kay talented kaayo ka.. 😂😂 Richelle Juarez Bitong Zyreal Hope Cuba Gascon Padayon lng ta sa maayong public service 👍👍 ug sa among mga mentors kabalo namo knxa mo, salamat sa learnings na inyo gihatag. Salamat sad DENR RXI, CENRO New Corella Family and CENRO Frank Condino sa opportunity and trust 😊😊
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We’ve been busy this spring! Here’s what our last few weeks have looked like: 🪚 Continued park and trail maintenance at Willowbrook. 🏫 Visited the History Center to learn more about Mni Sóta Maḳoce & community narratives. 🎨 Painted our bike shed & beehives. We’re gearing up for summer! 🧑🏻🌾 Spent quality time with our friends at @wakantipi during Awakening the Garden last weekend. 🌎 Had loads of fun at the @sciencemuseummn Youth Action for Earth event! 🌳 Explored the Como Woodland Outdoor Classroom (CWOC) for spring blooms & helped take out tree tubes. 🔖 Shout out to Maricella from @capitolregionwatershed for coming out to lead a handmade paper session. We appreciate you✨ 👏🏼 And lastly, welcomed our new Program Coordinator, Alex, who will be spending spring-fall with us. So glad to have you here!
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We’re back outside — rain or shine! Here’s what the crew has been up to these past 2 weeks: 🌱 Checked in on the work we started last summer/fall at Rivoli Bluff Farm and Restoration Site to see how they’re doing. 🦉 Dissected owl pellets and discovered what our friends have been eating — rodents, lots of rodents! 🌿 Transplanted native plants that’ll be available for purchase soon. 🎨 We learned about the ways public art impacts and changes community and painted our own pieces to contribute to a future mural. Thanks for inviting us to your home/studio and sharing your artwork and career journey! @kaoleethao 🦫🌳 Took out tree tubes, continued our tree tagging project, explored in the rain, and saw how busy beavers have been at Willowbrook! #NativePlants #PublicArt
So excited to receive my custom backpack from #animalsanonymousapparel This backpack is a representation of my next journey. I'm transferring to Fresno State this fall to finish up my environmental science degree! #onestepcloser #keepgoing #teamconservation
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We are again taking part in St. Paul’s Citywide Spring Cleanup as a host site. This year, we’ll be hosting the Phalen Picnic Pavilion site alongside Friends of St. Paul-Changsha Friendship Garden at Phalen Park. No pre-registration required. Drop in at our site any time between 9-11:30am on April 22 to check in and pick up trash bags and gloves, then head out to collect litter. For more information: https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/natural-resources/natural-resources-volunteers/citywide-spring (or check out or story for the link!)
Shipping out my first wholesale order! #axolotl #animallovers #wildlifeconservation #zookeeper #glasscup #teamconservation #wildlife #endangeredspecies #savewildlife #supportsmallbusiness
📢 On est la première marque à faire une gamme d'huiles en bouteille consignée ! 🌿 Ça fait un petit moment qu'on le fait, mais on s'est dit qu'il était temps de partager notre fierté avec vous ! ♻️ 🌍 Chez nous, pas de gâchis, pas de déchets, pas de gaspillage ! Nous avons décidé d'innover en proposant des bouteilles consignées pour une consommation responsable et durable. 🌱 On espère que ça vous donnera envie de nous rejoindre dans notre engagement pour la planète 💚 #GammeConsignée #ConsommationResponsable #HuileDOliveExtraVierge #PartenairesMagasinsSpécialisés #Réduction #Écologie #Innovation #Zerodechet #CommunautéResponsable #Changement #Découverte #HuileDOliveConsignée #TeamConservation 🌍💚🍃
Te estamos buscando 🐚 🌎 ¡Haz parte del equipo #AgendadelMar! 🐋 Envía tu hoja de vida al correo: [email protected] 👏 #trabajosihay #teestamosbuscando #Teamconservation #océanos #conservación #mercadeo #comercial #publicidad #comunicaciones #empleo
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 We enjoyed visiting with friends and playing in the snow last weekend at Freeze Fest! Check out all the fun we had.✨
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Despite only catching one fish, we had a fun time out on the lake trying our hand at ice fishing this past weekend. Shout out to @leadoutmn for educating youth about the importance of using lead free tackle. They’re excited to use the tackle you all gave them! Thanks @urbaniceanglers for lending ice fishing poles to help make this program possible!
Love Protect Conserve Eagle 🦅
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 Youth across all programs got a taste of Conservation through a charcuterie board inspired by edible plants we work with during restoration projects. They sampled braised burdock roots, elderberry, rose hips, and stinging nettle tea, raw pine nuts and hazelnuts, local-made honey and maple syrup, and even bee pollen! The crew had fun tasting many flavors beyond these, doing some self-care with face masks, creating mini terrariums, food color painting in the snow and much more— well deserved variety of festivities following finals. 👏🏼
🌿 #TeamConservation Updates🌿 This week, interns challenged their creativity through experimenting with various art mediums, such as assemblage with plants pressed from prior seasons, painting, and drawing, to create nature inspired cards. Check out their awesome designs! 👏🏼
Not my circus Not my monkeys Actually they are apes
Ed zoo cator 🐾
Yes you did but it's OK to double check 🔐
Yes, you did secure that one lock 🔐
Snow leopard wallets 🐾
Obsessed with feathers 🪶
Silly monkey 🐒
Oh shi....
I am good enough I am smart enough And dammit BIRDS love me
New pre order mug help save the pangolins 🐾
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Dingo tumbler 🐾