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For more than 30 years, Peterborough GreenUP has been central and eastern Ontario's leading environmental organization focused on education, sustainability, and stewardship. GreenUP is a non-profit charitable organization and an active community organization that offers dozens of programs and services to those living in Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes. For more information, visit greenup.on.ca
Store coordinator Kristen Larocque displays two layers within the demonstration vermicomposter at The GreenUP Store at 378 Aylmer Street North, Peterborough. Peels and vegetable matter are added to shredded paper in the top layer of the vermicomposter and as Red Wiggler worms break the matter down, lower layers fill with rich worm castings that can be used as fertilizer. (Photo: GreenUp)

Take composting to the next level … with worms

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Tips from GreenUp on getting started with vermicomposting.
A group walks safely at a school crossing with the help of a City of Peterborough crossing guard. Walking to school is a great way for kids to have a little fun and make connections with neighbours and friends. The Crossing Guards of Peterborough would like to remind drivers to slow down when approaching a school-crossing zone to ensure everyone’s safety. (Photo: GreenUP)

Let’s keep kids safe as they walk, bike, scoot, and bus to school

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Everyone is working together for safer school crossings and school zones.
This boulevard garden has been recognized in the GreenUP Water Wise Landscaping Recognition Program. Planting a boulevard garden is a beautiful way to transform a space that can otherwise be an uninspiring piece of your property. Planting gardens instead of grass can mean less watering, more rain absorption, less flooding, more pollinators, and enhanced beauty in your front yard. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Fall is a great time to make your garden ready for rain … or...

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Gardens designed with water in mind can offer resilient solutions during conditions of drought and flood.
GreenUP's Resident Beekeeper Marcy Adzich shows a group of community members how a hive smoker works at an Open Hive! event at GreenUP Ecology Park in Peterborough while a member of the GreenUP Community Beekeeping Program assists with the demonstration. The hive is smoked so that the bees will not sting when the group enters the hive. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Enter the fascinating world of the honeybee

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GreenUP Community Beekeepers host last Open Hive! of the season on September 9.
Sometimes families feel that with going back to school, summer activities must come to an end, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Keep the fun activities going for trips to school: walking or biking and being active on the way to school can help students get some needed exercise and then settle in and concentrate in the classroom. (Photo; GreenUP)

Keep the fun in back-to-school travel

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Get your kids to bike, walk, or scoot to and from school.
School lunches offer an opportunity for parents to instill healthy eating habits and foster environmental responsibility in children. The GreenUP Store offers a variety of tools to help you create your child's zero-waste lunch kit such as reusable stainless steel container options, reusable bottles, drinking boxes, lunch bags and totes, fabric snack bags, and more.

Zero-waste lunches and other school survival tips

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How to reduce waste while encouraging healthy eating habits for your children.
Children enjoy a performance from The Paddling Puppeteer at last year's GreenUP Ecology Park Family Night. This year, join GreenUP for a 25th Birthday Celebration and Family Night on Thursday, August 24th at Ecology Park at 1899 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough for stream study, music, nature crafts, lantern walk, bike decorating, birthday cake, and more. (Photo: GreenUP)

Happy 25th birthday to GreenUP!

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Birthday party and family night take place at Ecology Park in Peterborough on Thursday, August 24.
A female monarch drinks nectar from a butterfly milkweed plant in the gardens at the GreenUP Store in downtown Peterborough. She was also observed laying two eggs on the underside of the milkweed leaves; milkweed is the host plant for the monarch butterfly. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Monarch butterflies are a wondrous part of summer

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Local populations have increased this year, but the big picture is still bleak.
Along with every relaxing afternoon in a hammock, comes a book. This summer, spend some quality outdoor time at the cottage, beach, or in the backyard with a green-themed book such as The Big Book of Nature Activities by Drew Monkman and Jacob Rodenburg or Keeping the Bees by Laurence Packer. (Photo: Karen Halley)

Top 10 green reads for the cottage, beach, or backyard this summer

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From outdoors family fun to eco-living to cycling to bees to trees.
Visitors to Rogers Cove in Peterborough enjoy the waterfront, despite the beach being posted as unsafe. When bacteria counts exceed 100 E. coli per 100mL of water, the beach is considered unsafe for swimming. Primary inputs of E. coli in Peterborough area beaches are due to the presence of waterfowl faeces. (Photo: GreenUP)

How you can help keep local beaches safe for swimming

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Reduce bacteria in rainwater runoff by keeping geese off your property and picking up after your dog.
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