This photo of our serviceberry with an Andrena bee illustrates a new blog post on my website, about native bees and what we do in our garden to to balance their interests and ours. #gardeningforbees #sharonscompendium #springgardening

If you aren’t aware, Phyllis Wheatley Community Center in Minneapolis now provides free Metrix covid tests. They’re super convenient, PCR-quality, and you’ll get results emailed in about 30 mins.

They’re open Mon, Tues, and Thurs from 3-7 and the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month from 10-2.

This says it all.

I wrote more about rural mail carriers' roles as care workers and what rural communities stand to lose with USPS privatization for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/usps...

Here's my #Februllage offering for today, the 23rd, for the prompt #tapestry. It's a 5x7-inch analog collage using bits and pieces from my stash, on 140lb watercolor paper.

I have been making collages for #februllage but have only posted them on Instagram so far, so here's today's. The prompt is "Dots," so I named the person in this Dot. #analogcollage #retrostyle #dots #februllage2025 #sharonscompendium #longfellowminneapolis

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻