Our posts cover a wide range of categories, from food and gardening to solar panels, electric vehicles, and wise development. We hope to build a dialogue with our community, so please let us know what you think.
Stratford’s wildflowers are not weeds.
On January 8 the City of Mississauga’s nuisance weed and Tall Grass Bylaw was ruled unconstitutional, a violation of Charter-protected expression via naturalized gardens. This past Wednesday, the City voted to replace the nuisance weed bylaw with less restrictive...
Win a free rainbarrel!
On April 25, Stratford's sixth annual Earth Day Street Party will be held at Factory 163, (163 King Street) from 11:30 - 2pm. We are now taking orders for our rain barrel sale, which will be held at the Street Party. 1. Because we must arrange delivery of the...
Letter from a reader
I read with interest the report on Elwyn Thom's successful business in re-directing furniture from the landfill! If anyone in our fair county would know people who are keen on and capable of re-inventing items destined for the dump it would be the owner of Our Story,...
Seedy Sunday 2026 at the local
At the Local, 612 Erie Street, Stratford [dica_divi_carousel item_width_auto="on" item_width="315px" loop="on" autoplay="on" item_spacing="17" item_vertical_align="center" keyboard_control="on" mousewheel_control="on"...
Violet Davenport is our contest winner!
We are happy to announce the winner of our 2025 contest for the best student environmental cartoon. The $100 prize goes to the very talented Violet Davenport, age 10, of Stratford Middle Years School. Violet is an artist who speaks for her generation: her drawing is...
Looking for good ideas on home food gardening!
You'll remember our garden photo contest last fall, for gardeners who rent their homes. Chef Jude won with the garden below. He didn't have a problem with the City, and I think he's doing it again this year, but it seems that having a food garden facing on to the...
Words of wisdom from the robins
If you were lucky enough to visit the Canadian Tire garden centre in Stratford last week, you might have seen this:We live in a community where people respect nature. The nest sat there for weeks. Staff watched over them, but there was no fence, no screen to protect...
Crosswinds Farm Market
They've only been here since the first of June. --in the Stratford mall parking lot, just next to the highway. It's a bit hidden by the trees, but worth the trip. Really nice family, polite kids, great veg. We need more contact with our local farmers! (and they do...
More on induction cooking
Better choice in induction stoves (from Katheryn Hayhoe's newsletter) Induction stoves are faster and much safer: but for a long time they were more expensive, and for those of us in North America, we often needed an electrician to come in and wire an outlet for 240...
Students speak out at City Council
Stratford and District Secondary School students were successful in 2020, when they participated at City Hall to ask for the declaration of a climate emergency. They've been politically active since that time, and were back last week with some pretty tough words for...