Weds March 20: Former Sobey's Store in Wiarton to be Repurposed as Town Hall
Plus: Harm reduction report from Public Health reveals sobering statistics about the opioid crisis in Grey-Bruce
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Despite winter’s return on the first day of spring, planting season is just around the corner. Your gardening choices can have a tremendous impact on the health and biodiversity of the local ecosystem, writes Jennifer Deeks.
In her column this week, the master gardener calls on us to exercise our environmental conscience.
“Two points really hit home for me in terms of things that we do for no other reason than because we always have.
The first is the prevalence of manicured, monocultured, and ecologically dead turfgrass that occupies large portions of our landscapes. The second is our attachment to gardening using invasive and exotic plant species.
Our notion of lawns originated in Europe, where aristocracy used them to show that they were so wealthy that they could afford to have unproductive land. Ditto for fancy plants imported from exotic places around the globe.”
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Gardening with an Environmental Conscience
I recently finished reading Douglas Tallamy’s book, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard. I believe that it should be considered mandatory reading for anyone who gardens as well as anyone who has even a passing interest in the declining state of our natural world.
Full subscribers, there’s a lot more for you below, including…
Details about South Bruce Peninsula’s decision to convert the former Sobey’s grocery store into a new Town Hall, potentially including a Library and other services
There’s been a rise in local police reports of fraudulent online marketplace listings; see what to watch for and how to avoid being scammed
Info about a new local book, ‘Memengwaa’ the Monarch Butterfly, by Annishinaabe children’s author Dorothy Ladd of Saugeen First Nation
A report on harm reduction programs in Grey and Bruce that provides a snapshot in time of the local opioid crisis
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