The 6 million dollar Gardener

For everyone planning to spruce up the yard or cottage the following handy tools and outdoor gardening reno innovations should help make the job a little easier.
Check these puppies out for those nasty rose bushes and tired hands - Bionic Gardening Gloves for $40.
Photo courtesy of http://www.bionicgloves.com



Get the Original Green mower again. No more gasoline, no more noise and no pollution - Help reduce Sudbury's carbon footprint and your waistline - runs on sweat and people power.

Why not help set a new Green standard for your neighborhood with this classic lawn mower available from Gardeners.com just like Grampa's.

Encourage everyone around you to keep up with the Green's! They may even start a neighborhood composting lot soon.





And if you plan to spend some time sprucing up the yard or in the vegetable garden have a seat on the garden rocker ergonomically designed to support your back and swivel hips.




Can't quite reach it. Checkout this small business that makes gardening work easier through bulb planters, pruners and expandable rakes. Consider making a purchase online!

For everyone who missed out on the the Festival of Flowers - Check out the monthly calendar on the left side of the page for upcoming GreenSudbury events. Send us your event details, photos or subscribe to our email list or rss feed for complete GreenSudbury information.

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You are what you eat!

Photo from yuan2003

My neighbors have just dug up their front hedge and will be replacing it with new cedar bushes and will probably spray the area with pesticides and fertilizer along with most of the other homes on the street. The run off into the water system means that our drinking water in Sudbury will increase in pesticides and that makes its way into the food you eat. Doesn't the Earth have rights? In fact, The City of Sudbury has a Food Charter which you can download here

Thanks to the efforts of folks at Pesticide Reform Ontario is now enacting the most stringent no pesticide legislation in North America and alternates will now have to be used with exceptions for farmers and forests.

Individuals are changing their habits. Seeing the connection between climate change, greenhouse gas and global warming is not a huge step to make so why not between water quality and the food we eat? The Sudbury Soils Sample has been documenting and scientifically testing the local Sudbury area for years. One of the most high profile efforts to regreen and save the local lakes is the Minnow Lake Restoration Group.

Plenty of local initiatives are underway to protect the local foodshed -like the watershed and connected to growing and eating our local foods from local farmers. On Weds, May 21st from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Downtown Farmers Market The Foodshed project (from the The Social Planning Council of Sudbury) are holding an open meeting for youth.

This is all part of the larger campaign to Eat Local Sudburyand is a great place to find out more about the Sudbury foodshed and its implications on our health and carbon footprint. - You did know that food trucked from California to Sudbury adds to climate change right!

Local artist Will Morin will also host Aboriginal Spirituality - Food and the Earth. His work is available for viewing at ArtistsonElgin til the end of April. All in all its not easy being Green but so much is happening that sooner or later you will be Green too!

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