Pesticide-free Gardening?
The idea of welcoming wildlife to our outdoor spaces seems like something easy enough to get behind, that is until it comes to unwanted garden pests. The go-to solution for getting rid of pests is to spray your garden with a little bit of a chemical pesticide. The...
The Best Time to Take this Green Action is Now
If you had to do just ONE thing to be greener you could choose from a myriad of possibilities, you could forego your car, you could choose alternative sources of energy, you could eat lower on the food chain – these are all great ideas that will have significant...
Rain Check: How to manage Rainwater with a Rain Garden
Image Source: Creative Commons In part one of this blog series, we explored the benefits of rain barrels and featured tips from rain barrel expert Matt Trokan for installing one in your outdoor space. In today’s blog, we’ll be looking at another way you can manage...
Rain Check: Catching Rainwater with a Rain Barrel
When you think about Welcoming Wildlife to your outdoors space, managing rainwater might not be the first thing that pops into your mind, but creating intentional systems for collecting water is a great way to support the local ecosystem. We’ve been focusing a lot on...
No yard? No problem! Welcoming Wildlife to small outdoor spaces
In our last blog post, we talked all about lawns and what people can do to make them more welcoming spaces for wildlife. But what about people who don’t have a yard? For those of us with smaller outdoor spaces, there are still a lot of ways we can welcome wildlife, we...
Lawns: Is grass always greener?
One of the biggest enemies to natural biodiversity is a pristine turfgrass lawn. Manicured lawns are an example of monoculture meaning lawns are areas where a single type of crop (grass) is the only thing that is planted. While it might look clean and tidy to have a...
Why we need biodiversity
While we’re sprucing up our outdoor spaces for spring, it can be easy to forget about our wild neighbors. Unfortunately, sometimes what we see as improvements to our green spaces can be pretty harmful to the biodiversity of our neighborhoods. Without biodiversity,...Council and Staff Log In
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