Fine-tuning Your Pruning
Autumn signals it’s time to start your property maintenance routine to protect your landscape from potential winter damage. […]
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Green Your Property
Give an Inch and They’ll Take an Acre
Invasive Species Spotlight Sometime in the 1700s, someone set sail from Eurasia to North America with the glossy
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Everyone Has a Reason To Plant Trees
Plant Trees on Your Property Whether you want to reduce your property taxes, add beauty and privacy, decrease
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Keeping Fall Colourful
Autumn is a Spectacle Among the many perks of countryside living is witnessing the sweeping display of fall
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Bringing the Magic Back to Second Creek
Protecting Brook Trout It is said that brook trout were once so common in parts of the Credit
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Why Leaves Change Colour When They Shouldn’t (and How to Stop Them)
If the leaves on your trees and shrubs are changing unseasonably early, it could be a sign something’s wrong.
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Why Leaves Change Colour
The switch from summer to fall can be bittersweet. But two things that help ease the transition are
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Freeman Maple
Hardy and fast-growing, Freeman maple is a great shade tree suited to medium and large urban yards. Small
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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
They say patience is a virtue. For hay growers who delay the hay cut, it also helps save
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A Roadmap to Rural Life
You’ve made the choice to leave behind the bustling city life for the sprawling countryside. Once you’ve settled into your
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Backyard Ecosystem Restoration
Properly caring for your yard contributes to the health of our local and global ecosystems. Join Generation Restoration by healing
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What Will You Restore?
What will you restore? On June 5, the United Nations declared the next ten years the Decade on
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Trees for Healthy Urban Yards
Trees are service providers. They offer cooling shade, clean our air and water, sequester carbon and provide birds, insects
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Protecting Herd Health Creates New Opportunities for Stewardship
Gillian Northgrave can’t imagine life without cows. Since 1991, she has grazed beef cattle on her bucolic farm
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How to Be Water Wise
Conserve Water on Your Property Recent rain has brought relief from the hot, dry weather that broke records
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How to be a Good Neighbour
Don’t Spread Invasives Your neighbours may be fewer and farther between in the countryside, but invasive species, like
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Keeping Your Cool
During the hot, dry summer months, a layer of mulch in the garden keeps soil and plant roots cool
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Cooling the Urban Heat Island
Urban communities are often hotter in the summer than rural areas. This phenomenon is called urban heat island
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Top Urban Shade Trees
Many local, native trees provide cooling shade for you, your family, your home, and your neighbourhood. They also
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Life Partnerships
Pollinators Sustain Life Without pollinators, we would not be able to sustain agricultural food production. Ecosystems would perish.
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Stop Invasive Species Before They Spread
Join us for an interactive scavenger hunt to discover if you have invasive species on your property. Learn about programs and
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