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Last Tuesday, Joe Pélissier was running an off-site workshop for WildFish exploring ways to maximise the impact of the messages it wants to communicate in 2024. When you are a small busy team, and with more projects than resources, this is always a challenge. WildFish is an amazing environmental NGO doing great work to increase our awareness and understanding of the state of our polluted rivers. Their work is evidence based which is why the government and its #environmental agencies have little choice but to start to listen to them. https://wildfish.org/ These workshops are always fun and challenging, and I learn a lot from delivering them. If you are a small team looking to review how you are going to get your message out this year, here are a few of my takeaways: 1. Always try to make the time review and evaluate they way you communicate and the frequency  - don't keep doing the same old thing. 2. Too often we are fixated on frequency at the expense of being relevant and interesting. 3. People find it very hard to work out and agree on what they should STOP doing. 4. Younger colleagues have a more finely attuned sense of what does and doesn't work digitally - they need to be brought into the conversation much, much earlier. 5. Bring in some friendly outsiders to watch and observe the workshop - they will have powerful insights worth paying attention to.  A big thank you to CEO, Nick Measham, Deputy CEO, Janina Gray and Communications Manager, Immy O'Keeffe for asking me to run the workshop. Here's to the continued success of the important work that WildFish does.  Please pay them a visit. https://wildfish.org/

#WeeklySafetyTopic Kids FarmSafe Week We all know that hard work, responsibility, and pride are essential values for raising great kids. And who better to teach these qualities than our farm kids? They get to learn firsthand about the importance of taking care of land and animals, and the satisfaction of a job well done. Living on a farm is an amazing experience for children. But it's important to remember that farms are not playgrounds - they're places where important work happens. It's crucial that we teach our little ones about safety on the farm while still letting them enjoy all the wonders it has to offer. Check out these resources to help your family thrive and stay safe: - https://ow.ly/hC2M50RGbkx - https://ow.ly/ofpf50RGbkz - https://ow.ly/nOqc50RGbky Let's continue fostering a love for hard work and responsibility in our children while keeping them safe on the farm. The future depends on their growth into responsible stewards of our land and livestock! Think. Act. Be Safe. #Pattisonag #PattisonAgSafety #KeepKidsFarmSafe #ThinkActBeSafe

Canadian Agricultural Safety Association has named this week Kids FarmSafe Week, a great reminder to talk safety with your kids on the farm. Start them thinking about safety at a young age and keep them safe from hazards. Remember: they are watching you work, and will learn habits from you. Be sure to show them the good ones🩷 #weeklysafetytopic #safetyfirst

HOW CAN RESIDENTS SUPPORT THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM? Choose stores and restaurants that source food localy and support workers. Donate excess edible food at your local pantry or food bank (BFTK Food Bank and Get involved with community gardens and urban agriculture. Ask for locallysourced seafood at markets and restaurants and try the BFTK Local varieties of seafood. Contact a gleaning group to donate any excess produce grown at home. Buy produce that is in season. Visit and shop at ocal Certified Farmers’ Markets and the Fishermen’s Market. Volunteer with a small scale farm, food bank, gleaning group, or local pantry. Buy “ugy” produce, which is aesthetically unappealing but just as nutritious. Sign up for Community Supported Agriculture to receive a share of fresh produce from a local farm. Limit your use of plastic (straws, silverware, bags, etc.) and styrofoam (takeout containers, dinnerware). Track where and how food is wasted at home and reduce portion sizes. Feeding BFTK growing community).

With the New Year starting, I want to explore the concept of 'moral trade', Toby Ord's concept. The idea is that if you care about cause X and your friend cares about Y, you can both do a step towards each other's cause so that the world ends up in a better place. Ord's example mentions Victoria, a vegetarian for animal welfare, and Paul, donating to fight poverty, who engage in moral trade: she offers 1% of her income for poverty if he becomes vegetarian, aiming to align their moral beliefs through mutual concessions and periodic checks. Tell me what kind of cause/impact you'd trade! (pic for some beauty in your Linkedin thread, Swedish forests looking amazing as always).

5 Important Tips to Become the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) at Raising Goats So you want to be the G.O.A.T. at raising goats? Well, there are certain essentials that all goat owners must follow to be successful. First let’s review the basics about cloven-hoofed friends that are found on most farms or sometimes in family backyards.

Green choices for your Christmas tree disposal: ♻️ Curbside pickup by local waste management. ♻️ Tree recycling programs for mulching or composting. ♻️ Donate to a local zoo for animal enrichment. ♻️ DIY mulching for your garden. ♻️ Check with local farms for feeding animals. ♻️ Compost for natural soil enrichment. #recyclechristmastrees #recycle

This week, as part of Eat Local Month King County we're celebrating Farm Week and dropping this wonderful video by AFTER95 Creative, who generously donated their services to help us create a snapshot of our local farm and food community. As beautiful as the video looks, the reality of what it takes to keep local farmland in production and farmers healthy (economically, physically, mentally) is a whole other story. There's an old quote, "Farming is a profession of hope." Understanding what's at stake for farms large, small, midsize, urban and rural is important for all of us. According to a January, 2023 article in The Seattle Times, per a study by American Farmland Trust, Washington lost nearly 98,000 acres of farmland, mostly near cities. Projecting forward to 2040, we stand to lose another 192,000 more acres of some of our best farmland if we do not change this pattern. "This loss is a blow to local food systems. Local farmers keep us connected to the place where we live by providing fresh food from the land. These are the farms we see at farmers markets, with roadside food stands, participating in farm-to-school programs, supporting food banks and supplying local restaurants. They bring resilience to the food system, filling the gaps when grocery stores are bare during times of emergency." Find and support local farms in King County and Washington State today! https://lnkd.in/gfy4SZx5

Raising chickens during winter months can be a challenge, but keeping them happy and healthy during the cold is crucial. Discover tips for nurturing your flock through the coldest months. https://hubs.ly/Q01Yw8hQ0 #backyardchickens #chickenraising #chickencoop