Alas, Poor Periwinkle . . .
Since I’ve made the decision to become a Greener and Completely Better Person I’ve had a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the hardest has been the problem of my old friend, the periwinkle.
Alas, Poor Periwinkle . . .
Since I’ve made the decision to become a Greener and Completely Better Person I’ve had a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the hardest has been the problem of my old friend, the periwinkle.
Nobody wants to talk about the rats.
A few years ago, when they tore down the old Tom Patterson Theatre, we began to have...visitors.Our first reaction was to call someone to remove them, but I soon learned that this was not going to be possible. All I found were people who wanted to charge...
What we know about the Xinyi glass plant
We’ve been hearing about this project for a while. The 100-metre smokestack, the 1.6 million litre per day water usage, the dormitory for foreign workers, the possible contamination of our air and water, the destruction of farmland. But it seemed to have gone away,...
Sugarbush trip
There is nothing more fun than taking kids out to learn where their food comes from. Especially when you get to feed them at the same time. So when maple sugar time rolled around again this year, I grabbed a couple of short folk and made my way to St. Marys, where...
About those bees . . .
I have always wondered why the almond farmers don’t just raise bees within their groves. That would save time and trouble in transportation, and minimize the risk of infection to the hives. And you get honey.
Crows and cats
At first reading, it sounded like a great idea — the crows learn fast, they pick up the trash, and they get paid a peanut. What’s not to like?