Living rural in the city is great – you can do it, too.
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- Build a Mason bee house
- Strain lumps out of paint
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- Home (blog)
- About BCLH
- DIY Projects
- Stop your windows from killing birds (resources, how to)
- DIY: easy Acopian Bird Savers for apartment dwellers and 2nd floor windows
- Make a heated water bowl for wildlife in winter
- Build a birdhouse (nest box)
- 10 tips for an urban homestead garden in Montreal
- Build a Mason bee house
- Strain lumps out of paint
- Rewilding (landscaping service)
Category: Water conservation
Big City, Little Homestead
This is a long-running “lifestyle” blog about the pleasures of living like a farm kid in an urban context. You’ll find a wide range of topics that pertain to food, crafts, energy efficiency, and DIY. There’s a big focus on ecology and wildlife because this has brought me a lot joy – but this is also the greatest potential we have of restoring some balance to nature where we live.
Given that, I’ve turned my attention to providing more content for people to switch traditional lawns over to native landscaping and green driveways and things that will support climate readiness, drought and flood-prevention, and increased habitat for biodiversity. Comments and questions are welcome!
If you’re in the Montreal region, you can also use my “Rewilding” service to landscape your property using native plants, convert to a green driveway, and prevent your windows from killing birds.
Topics
- Arts, Crafts, and DIY (6)
- Biophilia (12)
- Birds and Wildlife (22)
- Eco-Living (14)
- Ecology (6)
- Food, Cooking, and Processing (3)
- Gardening (18)
- Green design (2)
- Landscapes and Road Trips (5)
- Pets and Farm Animals (4)
- Rewilding (11)
- Site news (1)
- Urban agriculture (1)
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Mission
My mission is to spread appreciation for ecological resilience and encourage you to live a little closer to the land. I want people to take actions that increase the beauty, biodiversity, and climate-change readiness of our towns, cities, and regions. That begins with people who own property, but includes anyone who can just go forth and do something at hand, from planting a public space to persuading a company to create green space.
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© myself, unless credited otherwise; all rights reserved. View my photography – available for free! – on Unsplash.
Contact
Reach me by using the Comment form under the About BCLH menu. During seasonal work, my details are available by pop-up.
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