Matthew Gaston

@mckgaston.bsky.social

🌻 Friend of Plantae, 🌳 Beholder of Nature, and 🔥 Keeper of the Sacred Flame | Botanist and Educator 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Outside of plants, music, and games, one of my favorite hobbies is weight lifting. To my surprise, I hit a bunch of my goals yesterday! I didn’t think I would be able to as I have had significant knee and shoulder pain, but I worked back into it slowly and now we hitting goals!

For folks who want to see a proper ‘Ōhi’a forest and travel to one of the wettest places on earth, the Alaka’i Swamp Trail is the hike for you. Grateful to be able to be here and experience this hike! And I got to do it with one of my buddies from college!

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Honey bees are an invasive species. They directly compete with native bees, which are more efficient pollinators for our ecosystems and this is their home! Many native bees also don’t sting…