Tenacious Tenants! Tackling Invasive Species on Your Property
Learn how to identify and control Japanese Knotweed, Japanese Barberry, Multiflora Rose, Phragmites, Miscanthus and Common Buckthorn.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to friends, colleagues and interested parties.
To register for this presentation, please email: cgamble@conservationhamilton.ca
Please feel free to forward this invitation to friends, colleagues and interested parties.
To register for this presentation, please email: cgamble@conservationhamilton.ca
An online presentation Saturday May 15th from 1:00 – 3:30pm
Hamilton Monarch Awards 2021: Accepting Applications
Hamilton has a unique garden award program that recognizes function as well as good looks.
This summer, residents who garden for Nature, and not just curb appeal, will again be recognized through the Hamilton Monarch Awards Program. Created in 2016 by staff from Environment Hamilton, Hamilton Naturalists Club, Royal Botanical Gardens, along with local volunteers and activists, the Monarch Awards continue in 2020 with the non-competitive format and the “Caterpillar” category for new or small gardens as well as beginner gardeners.
The Monarch Awards recognizes gardens and gardeners for their contribution to a biodiverse, sustainable environment. The awards are a standard of excellence for gardeners making a difference for pollinators and biodiversity. An award-winning garden is more than just beautiful plants - it is an ecosystem. It starts from the soil, encompassing the plant communities and water, and how they nourish the wildlife that visits. It includes materials thoughtfully selected to accent this sanctuary, and even involves how it is enjoyed by ourselves and others. If your garden flutters with life, if you care for the soil, use native plants, capture rainwater, and follow sustainable practices, you deserve recognition!
Check out www.monarchawardshamilton.org for information on how to apply and criteria details. Monarch Award judges visit the top gardens (with appropriate social distancing) and talk to gardeners about biodiversity, sustainability, water use, materials, and all the elements that make gardens good for neighbourhoods and ecosystems.
Applications will be received until June 20.
For more information call (905) 549-0900 or email info@monarchawardshamilton.org.
Curious about what it takes? Read all about the scoring rubric and what the award-winning gardens do differently.
This summer, residents who garden for Nature, and not just curb appeal, will again be recognized through the Hamilton Monarch Awards Program. Created in 2016 by staff from Environment Hamilton, Hamilton Naturalists Club, Royal Botanical Gardens, along with local volunteers and activists, the Monarch Awards continue in 2020 with the non-competitive format and the “Caterpillar” category for new or small gardens as well as beginner gardeners.
The Monarch Awards recognizes gardens and gardeners for their contribution to a biodiverse, sustainable environment. The awards are a standard of excellence for gardeners making a difference for pollinators and biodiversity. An award-winning garden is more than just beautiful plants - it is an ecosystem. It starts from the soil, encompassing the plant communities and water, and how they nourish the wildlife that visits. It includes materials thoughtfully selected to accent this sanctuary, and even involves how it is enjoyed by ourselves and others. If your garden flutters with life, if you care for the soil, use native plants, capture rainwater, and follow sustainable practices, you deserve recognition!
Check out www.monarchawardshamilton.org for information on how to apply and criteria details. Monarch Award judges visit the top gardens (with appropriate social distancing) and talk to gardeners about biodiversity, sustainability, water use, materials, and all the elements that make gardens good for neighbourhoods and ecosystems.
Applications will be received until June 20.
For more information call (905) 549-0900 or email info@monarchawardshamilton.org.
Curious about what it takes? Read all about the scoring rubric and what the award-winning gardens do differently.
The Metanoia Project: Nature is Us.
Call for Visuals Recordings of Hamilton’s Nature/Biodiversity for an Immersive, Digital Art Installation.
Metanoia: Greek μετάνοια, is "a transformative change of heart”. Also, “to change one’s mind,” “change direction,” “turn around.”
The Metanoia Project (Nature is Us) is a new initiative of the *Hamilton Pollinator Paradise Project to raise awareness of what we are at risk of losing if we do not act immediately to protect and uplift rapidly declining native species populations.
With its diverse habitats of marsh, and wetland, and Carolinian forest, escarpment and Lake Ontario, Hamilton is in a hotspot of biodiversity that supports many native species of insects, birds, mammals, plants, etc. But healthy biodiversity is continuously threatened by habitat loss, disease, invasive species, climate change, and pesticide use, amongst other factors.
An Immersive, Digital Art Installation, Metanoia seeks to help viewers connect nature to an emotional landscape; because when we are awed and inspired by nature, we will want to protect what we have.
Contribute
As part of the digital art installation, we are collecting images (photos) of Hamilton's **native species nature. We welcome contributions from the community.
For more information or to contribute directly, email Beatrice Ekoko, Project Lead at projectmetanoia2021@gmail.com
Visit the Metanoia Project page:
https://www.hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org/the-metanoia-project.html
**Native species are those that originated in their location (ecosystems) naturally and without the involvement of human activity or intervention.
Metanoia: Greek μετάνοια, is "a transformative change of heart”. Also, “to change one’s mind,” “change direction,” “turn around.”
The Metanoia Project (Nature is Us) is a new initiative of the *Hamilton Pollinator Paradise Project to raise awareness of what we are at risk of losing if we do not act immediately to protect and uplift rapidly declining native species populations.
With its diverse habitats of marsh, and wetland, and Carolinian forest, escarpment and Lake Ontario, Hamilton is in a hotspot of biodiversity that supports many native species of insects, birds, mammals, plants, etc. But healthy biodiversity is continuously threatened by habitat loss, disease, invasive species, climate change, and pesticide use, amongst other factors.
An Immersive, Digital Art Installation, Metanoia seeks to help viewers connect nature to an emotional landscape; because when we are awed and inspired by nature, we will want to protect what we have.
Contribute
As part of the digital art installation, we are collecting images (photos) of Hamilton's **native species nature. We welcome contributions from the community.
For more information or to contribute directly, email Beatrice Ekoko, Project Lead at projectmetanoia2021@gmail.com
Visit the Metanoia Project page:
https://www.hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org/the-metanoia-project.html
**Native species are those that originated in their location (ecosystems) naturally and without the involvement of human activity or intervention.
