Discover & Celebrate the Salmon River

Discover Our Gem: the Salmon River Headwaters   Please join us on Saturday morning, July 25 in Arden to celebrate the beauty and importance of our Salmon River Headwaters The life force that brings health and services to ‘the downstream’ Mingle with members of…

What Birds Can We Expect To See In June?

By and large, the spring warbler migration is all but over by the end of May. Despite how the month started out with near low temperatures at night, May was a good month – a few good days, a couple of spectacular fallouts, although…

Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre

Greetings friends, However you like to celebrate the holidays, we wish you a warm relaxing time with family & friends, and the opportunity to appreciate our beautiful landscape and our magnificent Salmon River watershed. Thank you to Avis Price, FSR member, who researched and wrote this…

Support South Shore Joint Initiative

Only 200 tickets at $25 each—great odds, amazing prizes, and every ticket supports South Shore Joint Initiative and their mission to educate, advocate and protect Prince Edward County’s rare South Shore! For tickets contact: cheryl.anderson@ssji.ca | 613-849-7743Details: https://www.ssji.ca/stepintonatureraffle2025 or visit SSJI.CA Raffle Prizes– One…

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,…

Bird Friendly Garden Plants

Poster courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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…

The Nellie Lunn Park

“We believe in the value of community greenspace within Wollaston Township in Hastings County.” (The Friends of Nellie Lunn Park) THE NELLIE LUNN PARK            By John Lowry Tucked away in the centre of Wollaston Township, Hastings County is an ecological gem – Nellie Lunn…

Stalking the Wild Tea

When I worked at Sandbanks Provincial Park as a park naturalist about 10 years ago, I always used to mix up a batch of wild tea and offer it to the campers who attended my evening programs. Usually, they would clean up the entire…

Beaver Meadow Conservation Area

The small band of Prince Edward Region Conservation Authority staff and volunteers were elated. This was the very first piece of property purchased by the fledgling organization, and they were on their way to undertake their first project – the installation of wood duck…

Thoughts on the Bell Creek Watershed

BY JOHN LOWRY We have here in Belleville an incredibly amazing opportunity; An opportunity to preserve and protect an ecological jewel. I am speaking, of course, of the Bell Creek Watershed, or more specifically the area of the watershed that lies to the east…