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DIY Rain Barrel

Posted on June 11, 2024

With a drought in Southern Alberta, potential watering schedules, and the outdoor watering restrictions from the water main break in NW Calgary in June 2024, saving rainwater for watering your garden is now one of the best ways to…

This will probably be the least lengthy of the entries in this blog. Simply put, everything we have been commenting on to this point has laid the groundwork for a commentary on the nature and importance of air in the life of the city. …

I remarked at the outset of this blog that the development of Calgary as an urban center has placed a forest where none should naturally stand. Even a cursory inspection of the online archive of historic photographs available from the …

Yesterday evening, in the last minutes of the gloaming, I was called to the kitchen window by the chatter and cries of irate crows and magpies. This behavior I usually associate with the arrival of a hawk or other large raptor in the v…

The last post commented on water; this one is about land. It should be clear that the two are inseparable in an ecological sense. Once we appreciate that water often gets its character from land (and vice versa) and that we must be min…