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AUGUST 15, 2022 - Kawartha Conservation’s 2022 Native Plant Sale has opened for a limited time, offering a wide selection of low-cost native plant species while supplies last. With an expanded list of fall species and new kits available, this is the perfect opportunity for anybody to create, enhance or diversify their garden or shoreline before winter weather arrives.

Local landowners and gardening enthusiasts can choose from three options; the ‘Sun Lovers’ kit, the ‘Understory Oasis’ kit, and the...

AUGUST 3, 2022 – Available now and for the entire month of August, visitors to Ken Reid Conservation Area can read ‘Plant the Tiny Seed’, the newly featured story along the Story Walk Trail.

Written by Christie Matheson, ‘Plant the Tiny Seed’ gets readers involved in the magic of planting seeds and watching them grow into beautiful, colourful flowers on each page. Wiggle your fingers, clap your hands, and take a walk through the forest as you grow tiny little seeds into a magnificent garden by the...

JULY 29, 2022 – Fenelon Falls Brewing Co. is not only home to some award winning brews, a great restaurant and unmatched views of scenic Lock 34 of the Trent Severn Waterway, but it also continues to create a last legacy of environmental excellence through the sale of the Kawartha Summer Ale – an annual summer partnership with Kawartha Conservation.

The Kawartha Summer Ale, the unofficial beer of summer in the Kawarthas, is a popular limited edition beer sold on site at the Fenelon Falls Brewing...

JULY 28, 2022 – Landowners across the Kawartha Lakes are working with Kawartha Conservation’s Stewardship staff to complete fish habitat improvement projects this summer and fall as part of the Bring Back the Fish program.  

Funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Bring Back the Fish program aims to create, improve, and protect fish habitat along sensitive areas of local urban waterways through habitat restoration projects. With two projects already completed in 2022, this...

JULY 26, 2022 – A stream monitoring project led by members of Trent University’s Environmental Geoscience Research Group is now underway in the Kawartha Lakes with support and funding from the City of Kawartha Lakes and Kawartha Conservation.

Lead by the Trent School of Environment associate director, Dr. Catherine Eimers, and Trent Water Sciences student Joseph Gentile, the project studies Janetville Creek, Sucker Creek, and Stoney Creek to identify key areas along the creeks for future restoration...