Bunchland likes to give props to families who love helping the planet and getting down and dirty with nature. The ones who really knock our organic, pesticide-free cotton socks off get our coveted Gosh Darn Green! Award.
OUR BUNCH:Nici, 27, Applied Behavior Analyist Instructor therapist. Geordie (Amelie’s dad), 28, TA and research assistant at the University of Toronto. Aaron (Nici’s boyfriend), 30, Applied Behavior Analyist Instructor therapist. Amelie, 3, optimistic singer and dancer. Remus, Riddle, Smeagol, Aphro, hairless cats. Stegga Nona, fish.
Would you consider letting bugs chill out on plants in your house? What about letting them hang out a few feet away from your sleeping child’s head?
Nici’s 3-year-old daughter Amelie has never been one to be squeamish about bugs. She is enamoured with butterflies, and once let a caterpillar crawl all over her. Nici’s boyfriend Aaron, a former kindergarten teacher, recalled a project he did with his students and suggested trying it for Amelie’s birthday: witnessing the transformation of caterpillars into butterflies. In the house. Read more...
Bunchland likes to give props to families who are going that extra mile to save the planet. The ones who really knock our organic, pesticide-free cotton socks off get our coveted Gosh Darn Green! Award.
City: Toronto, Ontario
Who we are: Rick, Environmental Defence executive director/author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck. Jennifer, Friends of the Greenbelt communications manager. Zack, 6, introspective fan of lightsabers. Owain, 3, tornado of energy. Muffin, cat.
Who says it’s not easy being green? Don Kerr & The Blue Bin Band host ‘totstock 09’, an afternoon of songs, stories and crafts designed to make eco concerns fun and accessible for curious minds aged 2-8.
Don’t miss the musical stylings of Claire Jenkins, Garden Jane and Jerome Godboo’s Cirque D’irt and, I Eat Kids. Come, watch David Wall perform The Lorax by Dr Seuss, Claudia Dey bring to life Kerr’s Sniffing Princess & The Sweet Toothed Prince, illustrator Irene Luxbacher & author Andrew Larsen paint The Imaginary Garden, Peggy Collins present In The Garden, and Barbara Klunder share her new book, The Animals Day. And you can make history: join David Bruins & Hilary Leung as they stage the world’s largest ever Cowboy Ninja Bear tournament.
Chris Reed will be Master of Ceremonies. All proceeds go to The High Park Nature Centre, who will run eco-craft stations throughout the park.
totstock 09
Sorauren Park (At Wabash & Sorauren).
Sun June 21; 2-5pm. PWYC. Read more...
When we were kids a yard meant grass. Hank Hill grass. Turns out the White House approach to landscaping is actually a throw back to feudal times when a vast lawn let people know you had a lot of sheep. These days, kids and parents in cities around the world are trading their grass for greens and creating food-yielding mini-farms in yards, decks and rooftops.
