Nature & Garden Articles

“At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” ― Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal...

The world is a different place. We are in week eight of quarantine for the Covid-19 pandemic that has devastated millions all over the world and turned lives upside down. Countries are trying to navigate between protecting their citizens and providing them with some...

Teach kids about the importance of pollinators in the garden by building your own bee hotel. What are Solitary Bees? Did you know that there are more than 20,000 species of bees in the world, and that of those only seven species make honey? Of Canada’s 800 plus...

Many people have heard of the great monarch migration, where millions of monarchs make their yearly trek to Mexico for the winter, but do all butterflies migrate? Out of the approximately 20,000 species of butterflies around the world, 275 species reside in Canada,...