 Hi, I hope that you're doing well and let's get to the video because I have very exciting news for you. My friends, I am on Patreon and I'm so excited to finally be able to share this with you because I've been working on this for a long time and finally it's going to be available. In fact, now that I'm saying this sentence right now as the video premieres, on the other side of the screen I'm pressing launch. Okay, it's launched. You can find our Patreon page right here and to celebrate I have prepared a very special surprise for you, so I encourage you to stay until the end of the video so you have all the information you need and you get to know a little bit more about this new space in our community. Now, what is Patreon? Patreon is a platform where you get to support your favorite creators, artists or musicians. You can pledge a small amount every month to support them and their work. For me, Patreon is a space where we can connect on a deeper level and you join me on the mission of getting closer to nature and supporting as many people as possible to do so as well. Our Patreon page will be a little bit different because I really wanted to build a space where we could connect on a deeper level, so let me show you how it will work. In our Patreon page, you will see three tiers. You can join our community on Patreon as Tobita's Leaf where you primarily will be funding the community space on Patreon as Lola's Reading Pal where you will primarily be funding our book club. Yes, a book club and I will get to it in a second or you can join us Lucia's Gardening Body where you will be supporting my work on YouTube so more people can find those and join us. Now, as a patron, you will get benefits and I decided to keep the benefits equal on all tiers. This is because this is about supporting this project in the best way that it feels for you and I can tell you each of you will have a special place in my heart and the same benefits in our community, whatever amount you decide to support it with. I am just so grateful that you stopped by. Having said that, if at this moment you cannot join us on Patreon, that is totally okay. I will still be here as always creating free content for all of you and of course we can always connect via the comments here or on messages on Instagram. Patreon is just an extension of the connection that we already have here. So what are we gonna do in Patreon? As I said, this platform will be an expansion of our community and this expansion is to connect on a deeper level. So first, in this space, I will share with you the beautiful sources such as books, articles, videos that inspire me in my planned journey as well as when I am creating content for you guys. This is why I can share a little bit more of the journey with you. Second, we'll have a community space where you can share about you, about your dreams, your projects, your own planned journey and you get to connect with me and with other patrons in the community so we can grow together. On top of all of that, this platform will serve as a space for the newest addition to Plants in Lucia, our own planned book club. Yes, we will have a book club. In this book club we'll read sources such as books, novels, poems and many other things that talk about nature and especially about our connection with nature. We will get to read planned stories and stories about the journeys of other human beings trying to connect deeper with our planet. So the way that it will work is that we will read a book or a literary work every month or every two months depending on how long our piece is and then we will have a story where we can share our thoughts and feelings around it. Now, this is a very chill and safe space so you get to share as much or as little as you want. This is for us to take a bus and connect in the best way possible for each one of us. I have already been thinking about some of the books that we could include in our book club and these include the intelligence of flowers, breeding sweetgrass, the revolutionary genius of plants and the hidden life of trees. But of course I would love to hear from you so if you would like to include any other book just comment below and I will make sure to include it in our list. And to celebrate the launch of our Patreon page I prepared something special for you. These are handmade small bookmarks. I made this myself and I thought that it would be a nice way to begin our reading journey together. So to say thank you and start our journey on Patreon together I want to send you a handmade bookmark by me with a special note and I will be sending this to all people who join our community on Patreon the first week from launch. So if you join our community on Patreon by June 13th we will be in contact and I will send you a special bookmark. Anyways I want to take this opportunity to thank you so much for your support always whether you join Patreon or not. If you decide to join our Patreon community I will be very happy to learn more about nature with you over there. And if you cannot join Patreon for now thank you so much anyways for being here and your support over here. Okay I cannot wait to embark on this journey with you. Thank you so much for watching this video and for being here with me and as always I will see you in the next one. Okay, ciao!