Educational Activities for Kids on Autumn Weekends
The fall season has arrived and as the days get shorter and weather gets cooler activity ideas for kids become less abundant. The time of the year also marks your child’s month-in adjustment to a new grade in school. Autumn is certainly a transitional period...
Why Your Community Garden Needs Bees and Wasps
You can see it on a sunny spring or summer day in practically any community garden. Visitors arrive to enjoy the scene, but a few are turned away by the buzzing of bees and wasps. There’s no doubt that these insects have caught a bad rap over the millennia....How Community Gardens Can Help Children with Special Needs
The immediate benefits of community garden and urban farm projects are clear. They provide a sustainable means to combat local food insecurity. Other benefits are less clear, but no less impactful. A recent development in Calgary...
How to Keep Community Garden Costs Down
Have you considered using your produce in a barter system in exchange for much needed supplies or services? (image: lady gouda.com) Establishing an urban garden or farming project is one of the most rewarding ways to give back to the community. But it is not without...
