Fairy Butterfly Garden Workday April 2013

The Butterfly Garden at the Unitarian Church of Ft. Lauderdale was lovingly created in 2010. Since then, we plan two Garden Work Days each year to pull weeds, trim overgrowth and add new plantings as needed. Each year also finds a new creature hidden under the foliage.

WE completed our first Garden Workday in April and thankfully had lots of wonderful helpers show up. We had not touched the garden in a number of months and it had become an overgrown mess. The purpose of this first gathering was just to clean-up, weed and trim.
We had our work cut out for us.

The grand plan for this space is to keep it natural looking and use mostly Florida native plants that are drought-tolerant. This plot is located in a very sun spot and does not have sprinklers .

The pictures below are After Pictures of the Cleanup. I am excited about our next Workday coming up on May 18th, as we will be adding plants to the garden at that time.

Meanwhile, enjoy!

2013 Butterfly Garden CleanUP Day at UUCFL!!

2013 Butterfly Garden Cleanup Day at the UUCFL

Come join us at the UU’s butterfly garden on Saturday, April 13^th, and help us tame some weeds. We’ll be weeding, trimming, reclaiming the garden’s faerie altar, and making plans for some beautiful new plants.

10 AM to 1 PM

We’ll have cold drinks, snacks, music, bug spray, and plenty of work to do. Please remember to wear sun screen, and bring along a hat and a pair of gloves to protect your fingers.

(Keep your ears open….

we’ll be having another cleanup day in May.)

Fall 2012 Green Events last update 4-2013

EcoAction Days at Broward County Parks

Volunteers are important to parks, especially when it comes to helping our natural areas clear out the garbage and invasive plants that continually plague our environment.  From October through May, volunteers (ages 13 and up) seek out nature at the natural areas or nature centers and get busy between 9 a.m. and noon.

Volunteers bring their own gloves, a hat, sunscreen, insect repellent, and drinking water to tackle the weeds and trash accumulating in different areas of the county

Current schedule:

• First Saturday of each month — Fern Forest Nature Center, 201 Lyons Road South, Coconut Creek.
  Phone:  954-970-0150 or e-mail: FernForest@broward.org.
• Second Saturday of each month — Secret Woods Nature Center, 2701 W. State Road 84, Dania Beach.
  Phone:  954-791-1030 or e-mail SecretWoods@broward.org.
  –OR–
  Long Key Nature Center and Natural Area, 3501 S.W. 130th Ave., Davie.
  Phone: 954-327-8797 or e-mail: LongKey@broward.org.
• Third Saturday of each month — Anne Kolb Nature Center, 751 Sheridan St., Hollywood.
  Phone:  954-926-2480 or e-mail: WestLakePark@broward.org. 

Nature and Green Living Resources - last update 8-24-12

So one thing that most if not all Pagan Traditions have in common is reverence for Nature. Whether that Nature be the Earth, Gaia, Goddess, the Body of a particular Deity or Giant... etc

Care for our planet, however, is a universal constant to all it's inhabitants, regardless of religion.

I want to share some resources.

GREEN WAYS BLOGS/WEBSITES


Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice - The Environmental Task Force has created a number of environmental education flyers.

PNC Florida - Great articles by 'local' pagans. The Food Problem is a good read about bad food choices in advertising.

No Unsacred Place - Earth and Nature in Pagan Traditions

No Unsacred Place also has this great article on why Pagans are not at the forefront of the environmental movement. I agree with her that we should be. This is one of the reasons I jumped on being responsible for helping the groups we are part of truly honor the Goddess, Mother Earth. The best way to do so is by minimizing the things that hurt nature. Earth matters and while we cannot 100% rid our footprint on the world, we can minimize it without a whole lot of effort or cost.

Green Living Tips - Just what it says. Lists categories and offers tips for going green.

One Good Thing - Holy Cow, a whole website of homemade cleaners and tips on how to clean many different things with minimal effort or harsh chemicals


OTHER BLOGS/WEBSITES

Witch's Voice - many articles by anyone who chooses to write

Pagan Space

Patheos - Truly a multi-faith site with a Faith Channel set aside for each of the major world religions as well as one for Pagans, Atheists and Spiritual. I particularly enjoy the columns from The Wild Hunt, Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom and the Friendly Atheist.

Witches and Pagans Magazine - I include this here as they have recently started offering on the site the old articles and have added a number of bloggers.

PRODUCTS I like

Seventh Generation - I buy a number of their products as they are environmentally friendly. They also have articles and answer questions.

Method - I like Method brand as I can find them in local stores a little more often than the Seventh Gen.



BOOKS I have on my shelf and highly recommend:

Plant Spirit Medicine
Month to Month Gardening in Florida (best book ever for growing your own garden in Florida)

Check back as we'll be updating this list as we find ore things to share.

Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of This Blog...

Hello!
This is the official blog of the Sisterhood Of Ahel Adom's Green Temple.
The Sisterhood is a women's spirituality temple operating out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We gather together at least once a month, maybe more, to discuss Women's Mysteries, different Gods/Goddesses and other topics appropriate.

The Green Temple is a sub-group within the Sisterhood. Priestesses whose mission is to keep our meeting and rituals environmentally friendly and to create works outside of our Temple to the benefit of our Mother Earth.

Current Active Priestesses:

•      Red Orchard
•      Shael Emese

These two Priestesses will both update this blog with the things we do and the things that need doing. We will also give tips and lessons on how to Green-Up your own life and how to mitigate as much of our foot-print on this Earth as we can reasonable hope. We will also keep you updated on other websites that have more information on how to be environmentally friendly.

RedO and Shael are both funny and down-to-earth women and you can expect much humor and irreverence throughout our blogs.

Things done this year:
- Purchased re-usable plates and utensils for use by the Sisterhood.
- Recycle any items not able to be re-used
- Created Altars out in the world using all natural materials to honor the Earth and the Goddess.
- Earth Day Workday at John U Lloyd Park

Things we plan to do this year:
- Regular posts to this blog
- Update and Maintain the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale's Butterfly Garden (Creation of which was last year's project!)
- Create natural altars out and about in our cities