Lorraine Johnson

Tell your local government to update its bylaws for biodiversity! Outdated municipal bylaws and enforcement policies limit the potential of habitat gardens to positively transform our cities, towns and communities

Sign this @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social Action Alert to urge your municipality to ensure that its property standards bylaws (grass and weeds bylaws, lot maintenance bylaws, boulevard bylaws etc.) support pollinators and biodiversity.
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15.05.2025 22:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Leaving the leaves is a pollinator-supporting practice with benefits for biodiversity, soil health and water retention, yet many municipalities have bylaws that prohibit it. One more reason why these outdated, anti-ecological property standards bylaws need to be reformed. 2/3

15.05.2025 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Front yard garden and boulevard garden with leaf mulch, plants and flowers.

Emily Noel has been told by bylaw officers in Oshawa that she has to remove the leaf mulch from her garden because leaves are considered "waste" under the city's Lot Maintenance and Property Standards bylaws. 1/3
#bylawsforbiodiversity #leavetheleaves #gardeningforpollinators #nativeplantgardening

15.05.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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08.04.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like a great webinar on how communities can access public land to grow food. March 28th, noon to 1pm
Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

27.03.2025 19:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grey County Master Gardeners | Presentation Schedule Our list of presentations that Grey County Master Gardeners do throughout the year in Grey and Bruce County at various group events.

Join me March 22, 11am (EST) for a free webinar on shrinking the lawn. I'll share practical information about boosting biodiversity with habitat. #losethelawn #losethelawngainahabitat #gardeningforpollinators #nativeplants #biodiversity

Free registration:
www.greycountymastergardeners.com/find-us

17.03.2025 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The onus will be on Mississauga to prove that Wolf’s naturalization presented such danger that his Charter right to express his environmental beliefs through a naturalized garden could be infringed. Wolf’s case will put municipalities across the country on notice! 3/3 #BylawsForBiodiversity

26.02.2025 20:45 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Because Wolf’s case raised Constitutional issues, the three appeal court judges basically sent Wolf’s case back to the Ontario Superior Court for a new hearing that includes Charter arguments. 2/3 #BylawsForBiodiversity

26.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A significant victory in the legal effort to reform grass and weeds bylaws. Wolf Ruck of Mississauga was in the Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday, arguing that Mississauga’s enforcement against his naturalized garden were unjustified under Administrative law. 1/3 #BylawsForBiodiversity

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