Hydro Ottawa’s pollinator meadow is for the birds (and the bees)

Written on: April 20th, 2021

In cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Federation and others, Hydro Ottawa has created huge pollinator meadows at Morgan’s Grant and off McCarthy Road. Now ...

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Building local native seed markets

Written on: March 6th, 2020

by Jennifer Line Note: this is an excerpt from a longer blog post by Jennifer Line on the Canadian Wildlife Federation web site. Please also read the full version ...

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Cleaning seeds with CWF

Written on: December 12th, 2019

by Sandy Garland Collecting seeds for the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s habitat restoration project on October 20 was fun (see Collecting seeds with CWF), but ...

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Seed collecting with CWF

Written on: December 12th, 2019

by Sandy Garland, photos by Li-Shien Lee WPP has been interested in and supportive of a large project that the Canadian Wildlife Federation is conducting: restoring ...

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Finding pollinators in the McCarthy hydro cut

Written on: July 21st, 2019

by Sandy Garland Last Sunday (14 July 2019), I discovered a beautiful meadow of wildflowers – native and non-native – in the large hydro corridor ...

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Creating pollinator habitat from scratch

Written on: June 28th, 2019

by Sandy Garland The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and National Capital Commission (NCC) have embarked on an ambitious project to plant large areas of roadsides ...

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