I learned a great deal in doing this challenge. I enjoyed Jane Goodall's podcasts, and watching a film about indigenous food sovereignty; YouTube videos with Robin Wall Kimmerer, indigenous plant ecologist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass. I couldn't find much on nature on the ballot, but I did research individual candidate's positions on climate crisis and what to do about it, including talking with a candidate in person at some length. ( She said she was going to use one of my stories about carbon sequestration and retention in trees, in her campaign speeches!)
      I joined the Environmental Voters Project, to encourage low- propensity voters to get out there and vote, especially important in this year's election. I didn't complete the challenge to contact five legislators about forestry issues, but I went to a meeting about the management plan for our local community forest, and asked them to not send 500 big open-grown pines to a biomass plant, which would send all the carbon directly into the atmosphere. They agreed to change that part of the plan. I went to a second meeting, at which I learned a great deal about sustainable forestry.
       Finally, I very much enjoyed doing this. Thank you, Ecochallenge  Staff!

I learned an enormous amount about a variety of subjects, and enjoyed this Ecochallenge

I watched several YouTube videos on foraging diverse food plants. Wild plants generally are more nutrient dense than their grocery-store counterparts. Stinging nettle, for example, has huge amounts of nutrients, much more than cultivated spinach. And wild parsnips-- called poison parsnips around here, because the second-year plants cause dermatitis--- are abundant along roadsides here, to the point that they are considered invasive weeds. As with any foraged food, you have to know when and how to harvest them safely, what parts to use and whether and how to cook them. Sam Thayer's three  books on foraging are the best source for foraging techniques. (I think his website is Forager's Harvest).

I listened to the Bioneers podcast on the Green New Deal, with Tom Hayden and Demons Drummer. Fascinating! It compares the Green New Deal to the New Deal of the 1930's.

I have not been able to find much on the state ballot about sustainability or nature. I have tried various resources, including talking in person to the Democratic candidate for state representative. Vermont did pass a major climate bill last session, but there seems to be nothing new on that front.