This month's newsletter includes Trends in Agriculture in the Quinte Region webinar, Eutrophication - What?, Rain gardens, and Soil testing.
Build a Rain Garden
A rain garden is a great way to improve your home’s curb appeal, it creates a beautiful
and unique garden that provides habitat for butterflies, bees, and birds,
introduces native plants to your landscape, and filters pollutants out of the
stormwater runoff leaving your property.
As
an incentive to help build a rain garden, we are offering a grant of up to
$500. towards the purchase of native plants, soil, compost, gravel, and mulch
to establish a functioning rain garden.
To
get you started view the
Greening Your Grounds webinar
View the building a rain garden how-to-webinar below.
Greening Your Grounds
Learn how to build your own rain garden at this webinar. The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan and Lower Trent Conservation will walk you through the process of building your own rain garden. Starting with choosing the correct site, and size of garden for your property, to the final stage of selecting native plants that will thrive in your rain garden.
Learn if you are eligible for a grant of up to $500 for native plants, soil, compost, gravel, and mulch used to establish a functioning rain garden. Grant funding is for the urban areas around the Bay of Quinte.
Jason Jobin, BQRAP Environmental Technician, Lower Trent Conservation
613-394-3915 ext 242 or jason.jobin@ltc.on.ca
Email Jason Today!
Soil - Making it work. Patrick
Lynch will discuss Forages, Rotations and Tillage. Where does the soil go? Jeff
Meyer explains about the newest techniques in mapping and measuring soil loss. Also,
learn about BQRAP grants and programs.
View the webinar HERE
This is a great reminder about how this pandemic started, it was first and foremost an environmental crisis.
Restoring Areas of Concern boosts economic development
This report covers
the successful restoration of 10 Area of concern. “
The story told in this report, and by these Great Lakes
communities, documents and illustrates the very tangible, as well as often
intangible benefits of this cleanup to the people of the Great Lakes states and
provinces. It provides a powerful case for sustaining the flow of cleanup
funding that has quite literally revived communities.” Executive summary.
