The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds
Baby hummingbirds need to be fed every twenty minutes, from predawn darkness to bedtime. Have you ever had to do anything every twenty minutes? You turn around and it’s time to do it again.
Three nestling hummingbirds grew up and, when released, buzzed around the yard behind the only mother they knew until it was time to migrate to Central America in September. The following April, all three returned to her Ohio doorstep, strong, fit, and wild, but with their “uncommon bonds” to Julie intact.
“It often begins,” she says, “with a phone call from someone who’s found a baby bird and wants to bring it over.” Julie Zickefoose is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who has been answering such calls since 1981.
Her remarkable book, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds offers an intimate look… Read More
It’s a (wo)man’s world
Skilled trades are no longer just a man’s world
(NC)—Nicole Martini is an ordinary 24-year-old: she spends weekends with friends, enjoys the outdoors and recently moved into her own house. However, there is nothing ordinary about her career path.
Martini is a third-year plumber apprentice and is among a growing number of women embracing non-traditional careers in the skilled trades. Read More
Can You Dig It? A community garden…
These days, living in a condo or townhouse is no longer pejorative to engaging in urban farming. As community gardens spring up in neighbourhoods throughout the province, even high density housing dwellers can have a plot of soil to call their own.
Central Okanagan Community Garden Society (COCG) has been establishing community gardens in and around Kelowna since 2003. They currently oversee 10 community gardens ranging in size from 13 plots to over 50. Six of these sites are in partnership with the City of Kelowna. Read More…
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