What Is Soil? Soil, often mistaken for mere dirt, is a complex and dynamic mixture of various components that form the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. If you’re interested in gardening, it’s important to know your soil type because it can help you determine which plants are best suited for your garden, and how to care…
The 2023 Native Plant Sale is sold out! Thank you for your continued support. Adding native plants in our gardens, balconies, yards, and parks – even small patches – helps to build a more resilient, sustainable, and healthy Hamilton. And it creates a pollinator-friendly garden to expand Hamilton’s ‘Bee City’ commitment. That’s why we’re…
Our rain barrel sale is on! We’ve partnered with Rainbarrel.ca to get more rain barrels to Hamilton and surrounding areas. When: June 2023 Where: Home delivery to any address in Hamilton, ON (fee of $10 per barrel) What: Affordable and sturdy rain barrels and downspout diverters and connection hoses are available. Click here to…
Our rain barrel sale is on! We’ve partnered with Rainbarrel.ca to get more rain barrels to Hamilton and surrounding areas. When: August 14th, 2020 Where: EcoHouse or choose home delivery to any address from Niagara to Oshawa (fee of $10 per barrel) What: Affordable and sturdy rain barrels and downspout diverters and connection hoses are…
Welcome back to the Summer RAIN Blog! If you made it this far, it means you’ve likely made it through the more content heavy blogs on the hydrologic cycle, wastewater management, and the importance of having green infrastructure in our watersheds. In this blog, we’re looking at why we love rain gardens, and going into…
Green Venture hosted its very first Fall Garden TuckIN event at the EcoHouse and it was a big success! On November 2nd, volunteers and GV staff united to remove goutweed, raspberry canes, clean our community garden, put in native plants and lay down some mulch! We had a total of 31 volunteers join us at…