Grey Jay Healing Inc.

03/01/2026

Thank you Prairie Up for posting this. Wise words from someone we look up to for their incredible work.

It's time to decolonize our yards and ourselves like our lives depend on it.

02/28/2026

Does your school want to put in native plants? This is a great opportunity.
If you need help with making a plan let us know, we would love to help.

Passons à l’étape 3 de votre parcours ! 🐝🌸 Remplissez la demande pour des plantes et envoyez votre plan de jardin pour avoir la chance de recevoir des plantes indigènes gratuites pour pollinisateurs pour votre école!

📅 Les demandes seront acceptées jusqu’au 31 mars 2026

➡️ Détails et inscription: https://bit.ly/3ZW9Nf4

02/28/2026

This is why we do what we do. It's political, it's radical, and it's powerful. Use your privilege to make change for the better.

Thank you Prairie Up for this incredible post. We will continue to make change however insignificant it may feel to others. We know how important this work is.

Contact us if you need help rewilding your space. Every bit helps, will you do your part?

Millennia-old systems of hierarchy and patriarchy don't work and never have worked for the masses, but the upper-upper classes always find a way to warp perception and trick folks into us/them blame games vs up-down awareness -- or just through blunt-force trauma (de-humanizing, othering, marginalizing, blaming the weaker for the ills of the weak, buying lawmakers to make laws that benefit a few people).

Butterflies and owls aren't stopping economic progress for a new proposed strip mall or de-regulated power plant emissions, no more than a brown person is keeping you from being a millionaire or billionaire or having access to affordable healthcare or having a pet.

The work to upend the artificial hierarchies that have been forced upon us starts local -- hyper local. In the grass roots. Communities of one, two, ten and one hundred. And the most dangerous tool we have at our disposal is empathy. That's why many of us gardeners made the switch to more plant diversity and using more native plants. When the "garden" *gestures broadly* becomes a place of defiant compassion, the tools of the master are blunted.

Today, cultivate empathy. That can look like host plants for moth larvae, flowers for bees, cover for birds and spiders and frogs -- or it can look like other forms of mutual aid such as donations of time and money to food banks, homeless shelters, non-profit conservation orgs, cell phones for women leaving abusive relationships, running for local office, or reading a little news before tearing out more lawn and waving to the neighbors with the biggest, stupidest grin on your face in a time of mass extinction and yet another gilded age.

I'm waking up wondering how to help my kid navigate the horrors we allow through fear, ignorance, and anger -- maybe we'll name some birds at the feeder, maybe we'll hug. But damn if I'm not going to try to connect the dots and see through the haze or wool or sand, recognizing I have the privilege to do so and need to better use said privilege that so many don't have because the system was designed to keep us from thinking or feeling or having the time or finances to think or feel or question or fight back for one another.

Read. Plant. Wander. Wonder. Wear other shoes. The time is now for a real change that goes down to the roots. Maybe we're really lucky to be alive at this point in history.

02/27/2026

Want help with a plan? Ask us!

Step 3 of your journey is here! 🐝🌸 Fill out the plant request form and submit your garden plan for your chance to get FREE NATIVE POLLINATOR PLANTS for your schoolyard!

📅 Submissions accepted until March 31, 2026

➡️ Sign up and learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZSrWua

02/27/2026

02/10/2026

People are really talking about pollinators. Why? They're crucial to our survival and our ecosystem. Happy pollinators mean happy people and happy mother earth.

Insects are an incredibly diverse and successful group of animals inhabiting many different environments. In this talk we’ll take a look at some of the strategies insects have adapted to become so successful, such as how they deal with the cold, some of their navigation secrets, and how they take on the aquatic lifestyle!

Denice Geverink is a graduate from the University of Manitoba with a degree in Environmental Science and Entomology. While studying she worked for the university's Department of Entomology, and spent much of her time making sure her lab bugs were happy, healthy, and multiplying. Denice holds a love for nature, but her true interest lies in the world of insects. She hopes people will look beyond the creepy crawly side of bugs and come to appreciate the diverse and intricate lives of the most abundant group of animals on the planet.

You can attend our talks in person at the Brodie Building or join via Zoom. For Zoom, visit our events page at https://westmannaturalists.ca/events for the meeting link. Sign up for an email reminder at https://forms.gle/q24DUe6KjfyDbZZ86.
Thursday, February 12th 2026 - 7pm
Brodie Building Rm 4-34 at Brandon University

12/11/2025

We need help. Please contact city council. Raise your voice. We need you to stand up for our environment, our relations, all of these precious lives!

Why Winnipeg’s decision matters for Halifax

Winnipeg recently moved to scrap its bird-friendly window bylaw, less than a year after it came into effect. Conservationists are “shocked,” calling it “a backwards move for birds.” The changes on the table include dropping the bird-friendly window requirements. A bird-safe window is one that is built or retrofitted with features like patterned films, decals, glazes, or coatings to reduce strikes. Environment and Climate Change Canada estimates that between sixteen million and forty-two million migratory birds die in Canada each year due to window collisions.

Meanwhile, Halifax still proudly carries the designation of being a Bird Friendly City. Last year we presented to the ESSC about the importance of bird-friendly design, especially to prevent deadly window strikes, and successfully got language into our Regional Plan calling for future developments to “consider birds and fatalities.”

Of note, in Winnipeg it was the Urban Development Institute of Manitoba, the developers’ lobby, that pushed for the bylaw’s removal — the same type of lobby groups that lobbied to remove bird-friendly wording from Halifax’s proposed Regional Plan. Lobby groups pushed us out of the Regional Plan. Many bird-friendly initiatives are hard-fought, and our progress in Halifax is precious. If Winnipeg can reverse itself so quickly, it shows how fragile these protections really are.

If we care about Halifax birds, it is up to us to keep the pressure on: demand bird-safe design, support Bird Friendly Halifax, and make sure that “consider birds” does not become “forget birds.”

To date, we have passed out hundreds of free window strike kits to local residents. While it is too cold right now to put up the stickers, in the spring there will be many more safe windows. A significant ongoing threat, however, remains untreated glass in high rise builds in migration corridors, which continues to put birds at risk.

12/10/2025

Does your organization need fabric? We are looking to donate fabric to an organization who needs it. Fabric varies in marerial and size. Including cotton prints, felt, fleece, and more. Sizes vary from scraps to several yards.

Let us know if your organization or community are in need.

12/08/2025

We have tons of gently used, clean, stuffed toys to donate. Let us know where we can drop off some cheer this holiday season!

11/14/2025

Signs are in! $30.00 plus delivery if necessary.
They are 12"x18" and come with a metal stake for your lawn.

Comment or message to claim!! They won't last long.

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11/09/2025

After our planting season with Beez Please comes to a close, we start gearing up for a season of workshops with Pocketbelt Crew. Both Beez Please and The Crew are projects operated under our social enterprise Grey Jay Healing Inc. Together, they keep us busy serving the community year-round.

Beez Please aims to rehabilitate ecosystems, one pollinator-friendly space at a time.

Pocketbelt Crew takes on Indigenous Knowledge Integration in the classroom and for your learning community.

If you are an educator and would like to learn more about what we do please visit [greyjayhealing.ca/pocketbelt-crew](http://greyjayhealing.ca/pocketbelt-crew)

If someone in your circle is an educator, we'd be grateful if you'd pass along our info by sharing this post, sending the image below, or sharing the link.

You can also keep up-to-date about what we're up to by following us on the Pockebelt Crew page. Thanks for all your continued support!

11/08/2025

We have a LOT of art items we want to donate to organizations in need. There are all kinds of items, and they would be amazing for people who need to keep busy and creative.

Please let us know if your organization could use some items and we will drop them off.

Please share, if nothing is claimed in the next week it will be taken to arts junction.