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🎈Happy Birthday to Our June Pearls 🦪 | From Behind the Pen

 

Image Credit: Didgeman

Bursting from an oyster shell

we know that precious pearl so well

like salt air drifting through a sandy dune

we celebrate our friends born in June.

© Kym Gordon Moore

To all of our June-born gems, may this month be a tantalizing birthday celebration that you will never forget! Oh, and one last thing, my mantra is to begin and continue your birthday celebration until this time rolls around next year.

🎉Happy Born–Day to all of you!🎆

Image Credit: Alexandra_Koch

Source: 🎈Happy Birthday to Our June Pearls 🦪 | From Behind the Pen

An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough? – Stigmatis News

  • A community of alpaca farmers in the high Peruvian Andes is witnessing the loss of its mountain glaciers as a result of a warming climate and unseasonal droughts.
  • In response, community members have turned to an ancestral practice of harvesting rainwater runoff and snowmelt, caching it in artificial lagoons that they can then tap to irrigate their alpaca pastures.
  • Today, the community of Santa Fe, on the slopes of Mount Rit’ipata, has 41 of these lagoons, or qocha, but increasingly prolonged droughts mean it will need many more.
  • Other communities across Peru have launched similar water harvesting initiatives, and while the government backs these projects, communities like Santa Fe are ineligible for state funding under a 2022 regulation.

Source: An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough? – Stigmatis News