Blindboy

And because of the time of year, it's mid to late April, which is a really, really important time of year for biodiversity, for the ecosystem.

Now is the time for individual action.

To act to create meaningful change through individual action.

We're at the beginning of spring.

The soil temperature is rising.

There's increasing daylight.

Animals are coming out of hibernation.

Flowers are coming up.

Those flowers need insects to pollinate them.

Our food crops, which are under stress because, as I mentioned two podcasts ago, the price of fertilizer went up.

So right now is the time to build a tiny little pond to plant some real native wildflower.

to not mow your lawn, to place bits of wood out for insects to live in that wood, to put cardboard over some grass so that insects can live underneath that.

Now is the time, if you want, to plant a little bit of your own food and you don't even have to have a garden.

It can be as simple as instead of throwing the top of that carrot in a bin you grow it in a flower pot or a potato.

You could look at how you can impact your own city.

Find the vacant lots and put some native wildflower there.

Build a little illegal pond.

Now I understand that there might sound a bit dangerous because that could be a drowning hazard for tiny little children.

But as the guest I'm about to bring on explains, a pond doesn't have to be something that's even... A pond can be a bucket of water that's left alone.

So I had the most wonderful chat last night with Collie Ennis.