Now THAT’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!
Everyone I have talked to this year talks about how early their vegetable gardens have been this year, what with the heat wave in early July and another in late August. To most of us that means picking tomatoes faster than we had anticipated or planting more garlic to keep the slugs and other critters ...
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September Almanac
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days, beginning on the 1st of September and ending on the 30th of September. In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until ...
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The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup 2010!
Just received this from Myron McKee – The Teeswater River Cleanup is a Go again as part of a National effort that is now in its 17th year! per the National promotion… "The Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada join forces on The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada are pleased to announce a formal ...
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Best Management Practices Farm Tour
The tour will take place on selected farms in the Walkerton area, in Bruce County on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Over the past 10 years, this area, more than any other, has heightened the awareness across Ontario of the importance of managing our water resources with the utmost of ...
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BPA Continues to Lurk
It has been almost two years since the federal government declared Bisphenol A (BPA) a hazardous substance and banned the importation, sale, and advertisement of polycarbonate baby bottles containing BPA. But how pervasive is BPA use in consumer products? In a survey published in June 2010, Health Canada revisited concentrations of BPA in canned food ...
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Second Chance To See The Northern Lights
If you missed the Northern Lights show early Wednesday morning you will have a second chance overnight tonight and early Friday as another geomagnetic storm occurs. While the Aurora Borealis is normally only observable north of a line from Edmonton to James Bay (the best observing site in the world for Aurora is Fort ...
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