Gardening Guide Available for Eastern Ontario
Check out CWF’s latest article on pollinators in the Eastern Ontario Gardener’s Guide, 3rd Edition. In addition to listing garden centres, this handy guide includes articles, tips, lists of local…
Beneficial Insect Water Dish
[PHOTOS: ROBIN AND SARAH COULBER] So many of us have a water source for birds and some have larger features such as ponds which accomodate amphibians and fish, too. But…
Bat Update
Image Credit Check out this article in Saltscapes about our bat research!
The Thelon River
Image Credit This month we’re heading to Nunavut to find the Thelon River – the largest river in Canada that flows into Hudson Bay. Beginning just 200 kilometers east of…
Cutting Down on Phosphorus
Image Credit Content for this article was researched and written by CWF volunteer Connor Reid, with oversight provided by the CWF conservation team. Phosphorus is the 11th most abundant chemical…
This Week in Our Garden
Another aster is blooming – New England aster. But despite more asters and goldenrods putting on their show in our garden and along roadsides, I’m not saying the ‘F’ word…
What An Eggshell Can Tell You
Image Credit University of Guelph researchers studied nearly 700 herring gull eggs from the Great Lakes region and have found that based on egg colour they can determine environmental contamination…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] Many flowers are still blooming as best they can in this drought that continues on. Despite some rain here and there, water levels are still very low and…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] As summer moves on, many flowers continue to bloom such as echinacea, brown eyed Susans, our wild onions and coreopsis. Pearly everlasting is still going strong, too.…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] These cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) flowers are the latest addition to the blooms in CWF’s Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden, giving our local bee population some much needed nectar and…
