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Always Room for Strawberries
by Melinda Myers As you plan this year's garden, be sure to include some strawberries. They are low in calories, high in vitamin C and antioxidants, a...
Adorable Acorn Adorners
Paul Hetzler While my musings about nature generally focus on southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States, there are times when a subject...
Vertical Gardening Maximizes Beauty and Harvest
by Melinda Myers Go vertical to expand your outdoor gardening space, create privacy and add beauty to bare walls and fences. This centuries-old...
Beech Gone Wild: Raging Hormones
By Paul Hetzler The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) has been slowly dying out for the last 140 years. As a result, beech saplings have overrun many woodlots, making them less diverse, less...
Ginseng: The Root to Health
By Paul Hetzler The media trope of an aged character with their nightstand chock-full of pill bottles may be an unfair cliché but observing family and friends in their 70s and 80s, I’d say it has...
Grow a Few Vegetables Indoors this winter
by Melinda Myers Limited outdoor growing space or cold winters may have you missing fresh homegrown vegetables. Make this the winter you try growing...
Niawen
The Onkwe giveaway was made possible by the following organizations and Onkwe would like to thank the following programs: Seventh Generation Fund for indigenous people, ink Fulbright Canada and Maple...
Managing Gnats on Houseplants
by Melinda Myers They flit across your face, hover near your houseplants, or gather by the window. Fortunately, these fungus gnat insects are more...
Mustard Power
First domesticated in Central Asia some six-thousand years ago by ancient cultures looking for the best way to ruin shirts, mustard has evolved from zesty warm to blistering hot to the point that...
Make Gardening Your New Year's Resolution
by Melinda Myers The New Year is filled with resolutions that usually involve dieting and exercise. Gardening is a great way to help accomplish these...
Grow Herbs Indoors for Year-round Enjoyment
by Melinda Myers Add garden fresh flavor to your meals year-round. Grow a few of your favorite herbs indoors, harvest and enjoy. Select a variety of...
Niawen
I would like to extend a Niawenkowa/Big Thank you to all who came together for my benefit and well-being. December 11, 2021 was the closing date of the online auction to benefit myself, Sherman...
Bring a Bit of Spring Color Indoors
by Melinda Myers Pot them up, give them a chill and enjoy spring flowering bulbs indoors or outside on a patio, deck or porch. This is a great way to...
COVID HELP - Is it really helping?
December 3, 2021 Submitted by: Joseph D Bowen Brewer COVID HELP - Is it really helping? I write in regards to the recent help that has been offered to Business Owners and the Residents of New York...
COP26 Report Summary
By Brayden S. White. From October 26th to November 10th. I had the privilege and opportunity to travel to Glasgow, Scotland to attend COP26. I arrived a few days before the official COP26 opening day...
Plant a Terrarium for a Unique Winter Garden or Gift
by Melinda Myers Create a garden under glass to enjoy or give as a gift to new, experienced, and even reluctant gardeners. This self-contained...
On the Life and Death of my wife Joanne Shenandoah
By Doug George-Kanentiio In 1976 I was staying on St. Regis Island. In June of that year, I was laying outside during a warm late spring night when a circular band of northern lights appeared above...
Brighten Someone's Holiday Season with Christmas Cactus
by Melinda Myers The holidays have arrived and so has the Christmas cactus. Set this favorite holiday plant in a basket, decorative pot or foil wrap...
ICT as public media ... just starting at 40
By Mark Trahant. The other day I listened to a fundraiser for a local public radio station. It was the usual pitch, something that occurs every few months. So ordinary. I have been thinking about our...
Dear Mr. Cullen and Mme Claude DeBellefeuillle
22 November 2021 Nathan Cullen, MLS Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Options 1175 Main Street Smithers, BC V0J 2N0 Mme Claude DeBellefeuille MP Salaberry-Suroit Dear Mr. Cullen and Mme...
Fungal Homes: Much Room, No Mushrooms
Paul Hetzler For some reason, mushrooms have spawned more than their fair share of puns. As a kid I learned that they’re all fun-guys, and that the only rooms you can’t enter in a house are mushro...
The Mutants Have Landed
By Paul Hetzler Sometime in the 1990s, a mutant crayfish able to conquer and degrade aquatic systems emerged as a result of secret German experiments gone awry. The marmorkreb, a.k.a. marbled...
Niawen
The Family of Kenneth Oakes, We would like to thank all the family and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy, thoughtfulness and generosity....
An Urgent Open Letter to the Residents of Cornwall and Area from Your Local Medical Doctors
We, the medical doctors of your community, are writing this open letter because of the low vaccination rate in the Cornwall region. COVID-19 immunization rates far below the Ontario and Canadian...
Wildflower PR Failures
Paul Hetzler Some beneficial wild plants suffer from reputation: To nettle someone means to annoy them, and nettle plants are in fact covered with hollow micro-spikes that inject a skin irritant. But...
