It was a great treat to visit The Kawartha Environment Centre at Trent University in January. I felt like a kid again. Tromping around in the snow and feeding chickadees from my hand. This centre is truly a gem for the City and County of Peterborough. Kids come to this centre and also Camp Kawartha … Read more
Chex TV airdate: Friday Jan. 6th, 2017 To watch this episode online click link here. On this episode I’m joined by Glen Caradus of The Paddling Puppeteers at The Kawartha Environment Centre. I’ve known Glen since we worked together at Peterborough Green-Up in the ’90’s. He’s always had a special way with kids, frogs … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Dec. 16th Click link to watch this episode online. Our segment now appears three times on CHEX TV. During the Morning show around 6:50am, The CHEX Daily shortly after 5pm and the following Monday during the noon show. There are so many beautiful things at the shop! Especially at this time of … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Dec. 9th at 6:50am, and 5:20pm and Monday Dec. 12th at 12:30pm Click link to watch this episode online. If our products aren’t Canadian made or US made we aim to ensure that they are fair trade or ethically hand made. We’ve been carrying these these beautiful items are just that, … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Nov. 25th, 6:50am and 5:20pm Click link to watch this episode online. On this episode of the Garden Gate I feature a favourite artist of mine. Charley Harper was born in 1922 and died in fairly recently in 2007. He created art until the day he died. He was considered an … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Nov. 11th, 2016. Watch this episode online by clicking link. Predator birds such as Sharp shinned hawks (Picture courtesy Gwen Forsyth), Barred Owls and Northern Shrikes have been known to visit bird feeders in our back yards (and they’re not after the bird food!) It can be very shocking to see … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Oct. 28th between 5 and 5:30pm. Click link to watch this episode online. Now is the time to keep your bird feeders full of quality fresh bird food! Migrating birds are more apt to drop by and visit your feeders if they are clean and full. They may drop by for … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Oct. 14th between 5 and 5:30pm. I can hardly believe it! But I’ve been on The CHEX Daily for almost 4 years! 100 episodes “In the can” as they say in the industry. We’ve covered a lot of information over those 100 episodes. We’ve also had a number of guests … Read more
I use recycled materials for a number of reasons. First, it is our responsibility to contribute to this world in as many ways as possible. Garbage is a great place to start. Oil tanks are costly to cut up and recycle so the scrap yards don’t want them. I began using oil tanks, water tanks … Read more
CHEX TV airdate: Friday Sept. 30th 5-5:30pm Click link to watch this episode online. As the days get shorter and the nights longer (and colder) birds need to fuel up on high energy food to survive. In the winter when the nights are long and VERY cold, birds need to eat from dawn till dusk … Read more