Environment

You may not know some of these magnificent species but they are our precious, fragile neighbours that cannot survive in a subdivision.

The latest thinking in garden and lawn cleanup is all about doing a little less – which in turn does a lot more for pollinators, birds and your soil.

The sweet nectar of liatris ligulistylis is renowned for its ability to lure monarch butterflies to gardens.

Summer holidays might be halfway over, but the bees are still having a field day thanks to these flowering pollinator plants

Plants can be killers too, and in Headwaters we have at least three varieties of carnivorous plants that consume small animals.

On our 30th anniversary, we dig into our archives to reflect on the recurring themes of aggregates and agriculture.

How a Mono nature lover transformed her swimming pool into a pond teeming with wildlife.

Field botanist Lisa Riederer painstakingly inventories trees, shrubs and groundcover plants for Credit Valley Conservation.

Naturalist Don Scallen explores the many species of Warblers found in Ontario; though if you want to see them, you’ll have to leave suburbia.

Long-tailed and tiny-legged, these slow moving salamanders face formidable challenges as our urban footprint grows.

Listen closely for their distinctive vocalizing and you just might manage to catch a peek of these pint-sized predators.

A look back on how we’ve covered the pleasures and concerns of country life over the last three decades.