Seedy Sunday

I'm so excited to be presenting at Seedy Sunday in Nanaimo March 2nd, 2025

A few years ago I was investigating Nanaimo FoodShare https://nanaimofoodshare.ca/programs/five-acres-farm-tours/ and The Park Ave Farm, and encountered someone who really believed in me and what I'm doing. Her name is Jennie. Jennie has invited me to teach kids about bees on the farm when they come for field trips and this year she asked if I could present about bees at Seedy Sunday. I said yes. Whatever Jennie is up to, I want to be involved.

Bring your kids to seedy sunday. Drop them off with me while you shop.

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The great bane of my existence.

I was born in 1982. This put me in the time of analog. My tv didn't have a remote, it had a dial. I had to get up and go and change the channel.

I didn't get a computer in the house until I was in my teens. Not that I had any idea what to do it with anyway. My mom loaded some computer games, commander keen, duke nuke em, etc. It didn't hold my attention for long. I spent most of my days either reading or adventuring. I kept a journal, but had zero desires to be an author.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I'm from a weird generation that was analog and moved into a digital age in my late teens when I needed to know how to type, produce papers for university, and following that the age of social media. I am mostly a consumer of that media and prefer to outsource any sort of computer work. But. Here I am. One year later. Working on this website again......sigh. I'm not sure if it is my attention span, the lack of mouse, the fact that this computer is an under powered chrome book (working MILES better than the mac I was using for 10+ years prior to this thing, or maybe.......maybe this is just not my thing.

I find making this website work uncomfortable and annoying and I'd rather spend my days shifting compost than working on it. Nothing seems easy, everything seems wrong and basically I hate it.

That's my rant. It's over now.

Wow. Am I building a website?

It all started off with me scrolling in bed one night.

Like most terrible ideas.

I came across a course being offered by the Young Agrarians- Business Boot Camp. I knew someone who had taken it and they offered lots of praise for it. And even though it didn't fit into my schedule at all (dinner/bedtime for my children) I signed up. This course has brought some focus to my ideas and really lit a fire under me to go after what I want to do.

What do I want to do? Teach Bees. Teach our children to be sustainable. To use what they have to create consumable products.

How do i want to do this? No idea. I already have a flourishing little side hustle where I take my presentation on the road to daycares and schools. But how do I make this a job?

Truthfully, I am woefully behind on my studies and course work and the longer I leave it the worse it gets and the less likely I am to actually do it. So, I don't know yet. But if this website could cut down on the amount of emails I get about booking a presentation.....maybe I'd have the focus and time to get caught up on my course work. Or maybe that's a separate issue all together. ;-)