Hoping to beautify your garden or landscape with affordable trees and mulch? Then look no further than Clean North’s 2nd Annual ‘Green Side Up’ Event which will be held on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 from 9 am to 12 Noon at Lemieux’s Composting, located at 764 Black Road. For a small donation, the general public [...]
Continue reading about Mulch, trees and worms – get ‘em here
First off, congratulations to Suzanne Hanna and the people who organize the Allard Street Community Garden. They received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replace the deteriorated wooden retaining walls and paving slabs around the existing raised garden plots in order to improve accessibility and safety for users. I heard the new fence [...]
Continue reading about Rocks & Trees goes community gardening for good eats
Looking for a way to compost but don't have the option of an outside bin? Courtney, a Katimavik volunteer with Clean North explains all there is to know about worm composting. I had no idea worms could eat that much! It's also a lot easier than you might think. You can order a worm composting [...]
This is a great event. Bring the kids – they’ll enjoy looking at all the incredible variety of plants. Be sure to bring cash or a cheque book, though or you’ll be begging the neighbour you bump into there for a $20 bill. I’m hoping to pick up some tomatoe plants, maybe a few garden [...]
Earlier I posted a congratulatory message for the Ontario government’s proposed legislation to ban lawn pesticides. Well recently I read two updates that make me cringe. One came from the Ontario Environment Network via Don McGorman, a member of Clean North and active participant in the Rocks and Trees citizens group. The other is a [...]
Continue reading about New pesticide bill: no good for Northern Ontarians?
Photo used with permission Some news worth cheering about. Back in February, some of us made the effort to comment online on the Ontario government’s proposal to ban lawn and garden pesticides. Apparently that strong public support had an influence. Ontario Environment Minister John Gerretsen told the Toronto Star that, “90 per cent of the [...]
