Doing our part in loving the land we live upon and adding our energy towards a reciprocal relationship can look like many different things! This can be a fun question to explore with your family or friends and to bring some ideas, offerings and practices into the month within your social circle.

Here are some ideas. Please share yours below:

• Find out who the indigenous people are of your home. Here is a really neat interactive map: https://native-land.ca/

• See if you can donate to a local indigenous non profit or support a movement towards habitat restoration, watershed preservation, native plant gardens, etc.

• Love up on your land! You live upon a part of the Earth Mother’s body and any patch, however small, of her soil is a direct source of connection between you and the Earth Mother. In the fall, pouring compost tea over your plants or at the base of a tree at a local park will be much appreciated by the soil and Earth.

• Leave your leaves! They are important food for the Earth. Mulching and covering the bare garden soil supports the Earth in her rejuvenation and rest, giving back to the gardens that gave us so much.

• Organize an eating local challenge with your friends. Visit the farmers market and feast on the bounty of your bioregion, supporting local farmers and allowing the land you call home to fill your heart and cells.

• Sing a song to a wild place or leave an offering.

• Feed the birds, see if you can support the habitat of the non human who share the land with you.

• Cook an ancestral dish and invite friends over, sharing stories.

• Watch the beautiful, uplifting and inspirational documentary “Gather” and seek out other stories from the land you call home.