Tag: Gardening
Waves of Change: Meet creative, organizer and educator Antonio Cosme
Waves of Change is an online interview series highlighting the diverse faces and perspectives shaping the environmental justice movement throughout the Great Lakes region.
This month, we spoke with Antonio Cosme, an Indigenous-descended creative, organizer and educator from southwest Detroit whose current work spans conservation, environmental justice and traditional ecological activities.
Growing Concerns: Short, dark days have role in plant life
On the winter solstice, Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, London will get seven hours and 40 minutes of daylight.
Growing concerns: Bird feeders, seed make good gift
We spend so much time in the summer encouraging the birds to visit our garden and eat as many of the pest as they can, but now it is time for us to give back.
Growing Concerns: Waxed amaryllis an easy blooming holiday gift
With the holidays just around the corner, here are a few gift ideas that you can give or treat yourself.
Growing Concerns: What’s under holiday decor is important
When it comes to holiday decorating, regardless of the colour combination, style or theme you chose, what is underneath all the colour is important.
‘The Bug Man’ loved insect tees. They’re now being sold to help good causes
When world-renowned London scientist and teacher Jeremy McNeil died in July, he left more than 600 bug t-shirts.
One year in, signs of promise and progress at London’s ‘House of Hope’
Statistics from the first year suggest that highly supportive housing changes the lives of even the most troubled people living on London’s streets and make the streets themselves safer for everyone.
Growing Concerns: Not too late to plant bulbs, and they are on sale
This warm weather means we still can plant spring bulbs.
Growing Concerns: Share your talents and produce as holiday gifts
I love to share so I have given IOU’s for plants from my garden to someone else in the spring.
Growing Concerns: Prepare for winter while the weather is still agreeable
This time of year, we ride a weather roller-coaster and our gardens are starting to suffer.