Prairie Habitat Garden Saskatoon
28 Campus Dr S7N 0X1 Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Wild strawberry, beardtongue, locoweed

Take a walk to Prairie Habitat Garden. Then, walk upstream a bit on the Meewasin Valley trail, to see where the beaver have settled. The beaver provide exceptional learning affordances: water flow, volume calculations need for forest rebirth, respectful and caring families, art, music, ..

Crocuses are up on the Earth Turtle!

Hello friends! Nature City Festival became Nature City Adventure this year, and hosts monthly follow your nose activities. But also, Nature City Adventure is sponsoring interesting panel discussions. On Wednesday, March 31, the second event can be found on-line here. https://www.facebook.com/events/788182441824797 Register soon. Tickets are free and going quickly! I am going to register right now!

Who has been visiting the garden, gnawing on the trees?

Hungry chickadees.

New music, composed and recorded by Spencer and Fraser Krips. https://soundcloud.com/user-7471/chorale-for-house-sparrows

More music! This time, a piece inspired by one of Kevin's musical colleagues, who was inspired by the garden. https://youtu.be/NcZO6BlsshU

Fall, 2018, we planted seeds. Last summer 2019: nothing (some - brown eyes Susan's, a few yellow coneflowers). Now look! I find so many unexpected surprises.

I should be posting more regularly. Tiday, Spencer and I noticed that the willow sticks we had planted about a month ago - a couple of them have taken. I think I will bring more tomorrow to try again. We are trying to create a willow bower/tunnel. But first, we need the willows to grow.

Spencer Krips composed the music, based on the sounds he hears outdoors from non human constructed artifacts. In this case, birds, wind ... (Mostly) Magpies. https://soundcloud.com/user-747125/mostly-magpies-performed