South Shore Fest

Community Trees – Seedlings Available

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Freedom Express 204RD travel trailer for Sale

FOR SALE: 2019 Freedom Express 25’ trailer. 4,100 lbs. This trailer is in mint condition as I camped only at Sandbanks, Presqu’ile and Ferris Parks in the four years that I used it for camping. It’s time now for someone younger to enjoy this…

Bird Friendly Garden Plants

Poster courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Birding Abandoned Fields

No doubt you have noticed as you have been driving the back roads this past month, birds flitting around in grassy meadows and darting from bush to bush. This month we check out the “little brown jobs,” the sparrows. They are passing through right…

Watch For Dangers When Out Foraging

When I used to work for a conservation authority in Picton, one of my jobs in early spring was to visit all the local schools and warn the kids of the dangers of playing too closely to fast flowing water and flooded areas. One…

Roadside Ponds, Wetlands, and Other Nooks and Crannies

The idea for this month`s places to bird came from an experience at a little insignificant pond south of Milford about 14 years ago. It is a combination of two small ponds – farm ponds they appear to be, likely spring fed as there…

Time for Ox-eye Daisy Snacks

OX-EYE DAISY SNACKS My late father never worried too much about weeds on the farm. Crop rotation generally kept most weeds in check, and a sharpened hoe did an adequate job in keeping them out of our potato patch and tomato fields. I know,…

The Menzel Centennial Provincial Nature Reserve

For a Change of Pace, Try Jerusalem Artichokes

Before the snow flies and the ground freezes, now would be a good time to dig up a few Jerusalem artichokes , (Helianthus tuberosus)  if you have them in your garden, or know where some might be growing. For years, I grew them in…