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Conversations for Conservation 2025 Series Launching with Master ‘ECO’ Gardener Sean James.

January 31, 2025–Noah Cole

Join rare on February 19, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at the Preston Heights Community Group, 350 Linden Dr, Cambridge, for the first session of the 2025 lecture series with Sean ...

Reimagining Lawns

June 18, 2021–Maya Davidson

Gardening•Reduce Your Footprint•Stewardship and restoration

Monoculture lawns of green are simple, non-supportive ecosystems. © Maya Davidson

How do you picture the perfect lawn? For most, an image of a well-manicured, freshly mowed yard comes to mind. With hot weather approaching, many Ontarians are starting to wake ...

How to Grow Native Plants to Help Protect Pollinators

May 12, 2017–Colleen Dempster

Gardening•How To•Pollinators

Hummingbird clearwing moth and bergamot © Noah Cole

Growing native wildflowers from seed is fun and rewarding. It beautifies your backyard in an ecologically-friendly way and can be done for little start-up cost and maintenance! Here are five ...

Let’s Plant Natives!

September 29, 2015–Diana Troya

Gardening•Pollinators

Imagine you are relaxing in your beautiful garden, enjoying the natural beauty, the sounds, the colors, the scents. Now imagine you could do all of this and contribute to the ...

What’s a Gardener To Do?

April 22, 2015–Guest blogger

Habitat•Pollinators

Much of the discussion around neonicotinoids focuses on agriculture, but the horticulture industry also uses these chemicals. In a 2014 Friends of the Earth study of flowers for sale at ...

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