Hello, fellow wildlife gardener!

Last year, I certified Big City Little Homestead’s garden as Wildlife-Friendly with the Canadian Wildlife Federation. The certificate I received is the feature image, above, and I have a sticker in my window to promote the program (if you come to my front door and see it). The Certification program link is here.

At the beginning of every September (if not a little earlier, like, now!), the Montreal Botanical Garden “Espace pour la vie” website offers a similar service, so I registered my garden there. Certification is annual, so you need to update your pictures every year, by October 15th. There are four themes for certification:

• Biodiversity garden
• Bird  garden
• Monarch oasis
• Food garden

You also get a signpost for your garden with stickers for each type of certification, so you can get all four. That way the public can see what kind of garden you have, and raise awareness of the program.

The program’s website has a “Gardenaut Gallery,” a map extension so that you can visit the photos that gardeners have submitted to the program and their location –there are over 300 entries in all of Quebec.

My entry is here: http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/my-garden/big-city-little-homestead. (There’s more than one entry, because the certification is annual.)