WINNIPEG -- With the weather heating up, and COVID-19 restrictions in place, a lot of people are using the extra time at home to grow gardens, and one gardening club is looking to get kids involved. Garden guru’s Sheilah Restall and Shayna Frejuk are co-founders of The Little Gardeners Club, it teaches kids about gardening and all the life skills that go with it. Restall said they wanted to find an activity kids could do at home while in lockdown. “With everything that’s happening with the pandemic, and knowing there wasn’t a green club for children here in Manitoba, I wanted to see if we could make one,” said Restall.
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Gardeners dig into mixed environmental messaging on peat
It’s been nearly five decades since Janet Epp first tried her green thumb at gardening.
Now, countless hours later, as she preps spring seeds, she finds herself contemplating a new — hopefully more sustainable — way of doing things.
The material she’s concerned with is peat moss: an ideal and common additive used to help nurture plants.
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As gardener Janet Epp preps spring seeds she finds herself contemplating a new — hopefully more sustainable — way of doing things.
In recent years, however, peat has gotten a lot of flack for being an unsustainable product in the horticultural world, and gardeners are taking note (including the organization Epp is a part of, the Manitoba Master Gardeners Association).