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The City of Toronto’s Patricia Landry can’t resist pulling out the invasive dog strangling vine that she notices in the Glen Stewart Ravine during an interview with Global News. “It’s one of our worst invasives,” she says. “It’s an ongoing battle. We never stop.” Sneaky, creeping and costly, invasive plants …
Read More »Winnipeg’s Rainbow Community Garden grows connections and weeds out food inflation – Winnipeg
On the University of Manitoba campus, 279 families grow their food in plots in the Rainbow Community Garden. The garden has been there for 15 years and in a time of major food inflation it’s only becoming more popular. Winnipegger Gary Srivastava has been gardening at this location since 2010 …
Read More »Winnipeggers weigh in on new pesticide regulations in effect this spring – Winnipeg
Gardening season has started, and this year, Manitobans have more options to deal with weeds. In November, the provincial government lifted the ban on cosmetic pesticides, which had been in place since 2014. David Hinton, owner of Weed Man Manitoba, now has more tools in his toolbox. “For the last …
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