WHO DO YOU WANT WORKING ON YOUR PROPERTY Picture your garden, its a sunny spring morning and all you need to feel complete is a new patio, walkway or wall. You might hop on social media and ask your friends for a referral or perhaps head to the Landscape Ontario website to look for a…

ITS A CAREER! we are currently looking to fill a couple positions: work 8-430 mon-fri (sometimes later in the busy season) Logistics/driver/labourer Must have valid drivers license and operate manual transmission (small dump truck) Responsibilities: Load/unload equipment and materials, prep site, install base, lay stone, prep gardens, planting and cleanup Flexibility and organization are key…

WORKING DOWNTOWN OFTEN MEANS SMALL LOTS ADJACENT TO CITY TREES eclecticlibrarian via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND Dear Councillor Bailao, I am writing you to bring your attention to critical under staffing at Urban Forestry, particularly in the area that reviews permit to injure applications. As a landscape contractor, I often deal with city by-laws and…

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Join me in exploring the everyday spaces of our city to see, appreciate and value the complex beauty of our urban ecology. Previous posts explored the beautiful interaction between people and place, remarkable feets of walking, and what happens when a master gardener meets a tree no one else in this city could love. The truth…

Join me in exploring the everyday spaces of our city to see, appreciate and value the complex beauty of our urban ecology. Previous blog posts about the interaction between people and place  and extraordinary feats of walking had a theme of stories from regular everyday parts of the city. In keeping with that theme, today we…

Join me in exploring the everyday spaces of our city to see, appreciate and value the complex beauty of our urban ecology. Last post was about the interaction between natural processes and a homeowner’s aesthetic values. This week we keep in the theme of ordinary spaces to take a look at how repetition can change a…

Join me in exploring the ordinary streets of our city to see, appreciate and value the complex beauty of our urban ecology.  Your City is an Ecosystem Take a moment to imagine the city you live in as a living breathing unique ecosystem. At first glance you might see concrete and people but look a…

Climate Math: 3 Critical Numbers You Should Know For a brief but terrifying overview of basic climate math start here. What you need to know is over 150 countries have signed on to the Copenhagen Accord, agreeing that the maximum warming we can tolerate is 2 degrees. After that, things start to look like a…