Weeds you can Eat

Keeping a shoreline healthy for cottage owners and wildlife

00:00 Welcome 00:23 Defining the shoreline/ribbon of life/riparian zone 02:14 Oligotrophic lakes 02:37 Mesotrophic lakes 03:02 Eutrophic lakes 05:09 septic systems and their effect on lakes 06:45 Keeping water on the property/ rain gardens 08:47 Stabilising the shoreline to prevent erosion 13:24 Preventing Geese on the property 14:00 General recommendations 15:04 Planning a shoreline garden 16:00 Planting strategy 20:27 Plants to consider for erosion prevention and rain gardens

Love maple syrup? We talk to Scott Drummond to find out about maple syrup production

00.00 introduction o2.30 tapping trees 04.30 lines for draining sap 06.50 boiling sap 09.00 sap production 11.36 what affects the sugar content 12.04 Classes of maple syrup 15.37 more on boiling sap `17.36 filtering the syrup

Weeds you can Eat

00.00 Welcome 01.15 Foraging guidelines 04.30 Chickweed 04.54 Curly dock 05.50 Dandelions 06.55 Lamb's quarters 07.36 Pigweed 08.32 Plantain 09.03 Purslaine 09.55 Stinging nettle 10.53 Wild leek

A quick discussion of common invasive garden plants and their native alternatives

020 Scilla 00.40 Tiarella, bloodroot 58.5 forget ne not 1.17 Virginnia bluebells 1.30 Lily of the Valley 1.40 Heuchera 1.51 Vinca Minor 2.07 Wild ginger, Geranium maculatum 2.23 Goutweed 2.55 burning bush, honeysuckle, butterfly bush 3.17 vibernum, oak leaf hydrangea, dogwoods

Perennial vegetables to make your gardening easy- Asparagus, Rhubarb and Walking Onions

welcome 0024 Asparagus 0800 Rhubarb 1400 Muliplying/walking onions 1810 Medieval ways