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  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Connecting With Nature

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Fields & Forests

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Vegetable Trellis

    2025-12-05

    If you have limited space to grow food, consider growing vertically. Several vegetables can thrive as they grow vertically rather than sprawling across the ground. In addition to the commonly trellised tomatoes and pole beans, consider applying a similar approach with cucumbers, small squash and melon varieties.

  • Five Activities for Your Walk

    2008-08-12

    Don’t traipse along without purpose! Get a mission and carry it out! We’ve got five activities you can do along your walk—for wildlife and for yourself.

  • Five Alternatives to Pesticides

    2008-07-01

    Spring has sprung, and along with the flowers in our gardens and buds on the trees can also come weeds through pavement cracks and mischievous insects that may dampen spring excitement.

  • Friend or Foe? Caterpillars

    2025-12-05

    We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?

  • Halloween Central

    2025-12-05

    The year’s most frightful night is rapidly approaching and CWF is offering you some spooky treats to help celebrate! 

  • Hedgerows

    2025-12-05

    Hedgerows have been part of the landscape for hundreds of years. Traditionally used in agricultural areas, hedgerows offer many advantages for smaller, more urban properties as well. Hedgerows also provide an invaluable natural service, offering food and shelter to precious wildlife.

  • How to Draw Spiders to Your Yard

    2025-12-05

    Spiders are actually the good guys, dare I say even allies, in your garden and yard because they eat the very insects that feast on the plants and vegetables in your garden.

  • How to Grow a Low Maintenance Garden this Summer

    2018-05-14

    10 Native Plants that Takes the Guess Work Out of Gardening