What To Do With Organic Yard Waste

Despite the apparent temporary return of winter in recent days, our yards are starting to turn green, and bags of yard waste from spring tidying have begun appearing at the kerb for pick up on garbage day. It won’t be long before bags of grass clippings line the streets again. These bags of organic yard waste contain nutrients that the grass and other plants have taken up from the soil and air as they grew, and once they are transported to the landfill, those nutrients will breakdown in the landfill creating nutrient rich leachate and methane gas (a greenhouse gas), which have to be managed carefully.

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Run or Work for Charity

We pay Federal taxes, Provincial taxes, Municipal taxes, PST, GST, gas tax, alcohol tax and more. In Manitoba, on average, almost 50% of our income goes on taxes yet the politicians always want more. In fact if the Federal and Provincial governments did not run a deficit and borrow money to make up the shortfall, our taxes would be considerably higher.

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Help the birds...

Spring is about to spring and with it all the migrating birds will be coming back to breed. Many birds nest in cavities – historically holes made by woodpeckers or in rotting trees.

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SETI SUPPER 2015

A couple of weeks ago, South Eastman Transition Initiative hosted its first ever ‘SETI SUPPER’. Some fifty people gathered for a feast of local foods, and it was fantastic. We sat down with a glass of wine from Killarney Wines. For those who liked red, there was haskap wine, and for those who liked white, there was a honey wine (also known as mead). Both had a unique taste, and we highly drinkable.

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Malathion – is it worth the Risk?

By now we have all heard that The International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC), an agency of the World Health Organization has classified malathion [and glyphosate ie. Roundup]as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” So what does this mean.

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