ôna niyanân - who we are

It’s Sunday’s spent in the garden, cultivating a life we believe in and want to share. It’s a statement that love and land are powerful healers and our time spent together tending both, is what makes life worth living. It’s us saying “wow we really own a house together” and doing what most people think of as “chores” while reminiscing on times we lived apart in aw that we made our little dream, fueled by adult bedtime stories a reality.

Poetic aint it? In reality, its one plant nerd and his supportive husband (and plant nerd in training) creating a platform to share what we love to do together.”. It’s us listening to Lady Gaga while moving mulch in our garden, late nights on our Lanai, a trip to the grocery store turned 4 hour jaunt because a “super cool” plant is nearby and someone “NEEDS to get seeds from it”. It’s entertaining one’s new ideas, every day , every hour. It’s dirt and plant material all over our home, learning to graft fruit trees while watching Ru Pauls Drag Race. It’s road trips in our SUV, dogs in tow visiting vacant lots or back roads looking for plants and making an event out of it. It’s asking the other “what plant is that?” every-time one spots a Loquat and the response is ALWAYS Kumquat. It’s finding a marathon hat in a thrift store and saying “this is it, combat climate doom with native blooms”. Bloomsday is un-apologetically us, gay as hell, wood chips and all.

Thanks for coming by.

Bloomsday is a husband and husband back yard project.

(Northern Michif)

FAQs

  • Native plants are endemic to our individual eco-regions all over Turtle Island. They have evolved over thousands of year with all that share the land with them. They are our relatives and a fond reminder of how connected we, as humans, are to land. Due to the ever expanding urban sprawl and exploitation of land, our landscapes no longer promote this interconnectedness of native species (both human and non) that have evolved together since time immemorial. Native plants are resilient to our changing climate and provide beneficial food and forage that can sustain all that inhabit this land.

  • Matt’s lineage is from treaty 6 and 8 territory in Canada, and he is an enrolled member in the Metis Nation (an indigenous group not recognized federally in the US). Weaving this language on the website serves as an attempt at cultural preservation and honoring his Metis ancestry.

  • These businesses, organizations and land projects are all intrical parts of our community both far and wide. They are groups of people that we have worked together with in some capacity or just straight up admire. They are dedicated land stewards we feel need to be highlighted along with the work we do.

  • For us acknowledging the people who presently inhabit the land and those who we were forcibly removed and before us vital part to reconciliation and understanding the vital connection we have as stewards and ecosystem creators have to land. Indigenous people have stewarded the land all over the planet for time immemorial and it is our mission to work in solidarity and service to our ancestors and the diverse groups of indigenous people all over Turtle Island.

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