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Conserving Water while Keeping your Lawn Green

Share With many hot days ahead of us, we need to take care of our lawn as to not have if dry out on us – no one likes to see any brown patches form on it. In order to do this, we of course need to water our lawn, however we should consider the [...]


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Across the Kitchen Table- 5 Important lessons from my Dad

Share In honour of Fathers Day I am dedicating this to my Dad. My Dad was born at the end of the Great Depression on a farm in south western Ontario about 30 minutes from Kitchener-Waterloo.  He is one of the best story tellers I have ever known. I recall as a kid sitting across [...]


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My Grandmother’s Clothes Line: 5 Important Questions

Share As I sit down to write this I reflect back on the lives of two very special people whom left their footprint on the lives of many people as they traveled through the journey we call life. As I think about their lives and how they impacted those near and dear my thoughts then [...]


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What is the Greenest House in the World?

Share From the outside, Canada’s greenest house is unremarkable – just another dwelling in a massive subdivision in Guelph, Ont. In fact, it’s extraordinary, and putting it together was a challenge that caused the builder, Reid’s Heritage Homes, to rethink its relationships with the tradespeople it works with.Part of a 750-home project on the southern [...]


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Water Smart Gardening

Share You’ve heard the terms “xeriscaping,” but what does it really mean and how can you make it work in your garden? One of Canada’s most influential gardening experts, Marjorie Harris, calls xeriscaping “the gardening style of the twenty-first century.” Forget the high-maintenance gardens of the past, filled with imported exotics and water-hogging plants; this [...]


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