Fly like a Wild Turkey!

Time flies like a Wild Turkey at the Kinark Outdoor Centre where spring has sprung and Messy Jesse the intern is hard at work making his nest in the Sustainable Living Centre.

Since my last post I’ve had the chance to see some top local and national talent at the Haliburton County Earth Day Family Festival. Rick and Terri is a Juno award nominated folk duo who rocked my nation with the song “Calling Canada” and Trina West played great Earth themed folk tunes to a very entertained crowd of families and earth lovers.

We are constantly getting closer to our goal of not wasting anything at the Kinark outdoor Centre. We are making some improvements on the Sustainable Living Centre and the Re-store yard next to it. The goal is to store construction materials and scrap materials for reuse or recycling in a very organized fashion so the site can also be used for education. The worms are also working hard at wiggling through our compost in their new home. Red wigglerific!

Funds for some of the Sustainable Living Centre’s events and materials are being raised through a rain barrel sales event this summer. Rain barrels are being sold at $50 online at http://rainbarrel.ca/minden/. They are made of reused or recycled materials and come with a hose attachment at the bottom and a screen on top. The pick up day is on Saturday, July 31^st from 12 – 4pm at the Sustainable Living Centre.

Hope all is well in the lives of those reading this!

Naturally yours,

Messy Jesse the Intern

Messy Jesse the Intern is still at the Kinark Outdoor Centre, blogging about my first three weeks living here. I’ve been giving some Tender Loving Care to our wonderful Sustainable Living Centre building. Spring cleaning seems to cheer me up when I find all kinds of fun program materials like Solar Race Cars and model windmills.

Our caring staff team does everything in their power to make Kinark an earth friendly place. Most of the lunches brought by our staff in the office are in washable containers and free of throw away packaging. The Outdoor Educators were busy making Maple Syrup for our delicious pancake dinner, and getting nice stinky breath from wild leeks that we’ve put in tasty salads and stir fry. We even had a human stampede in our office to see a moose that was walking right past our office windows. Only at Kinark!

There was a little trouble with our worm composters last week. The Red Wiggler worms have been trying to escape! The poor little wigglers were overfed and didn’t have enough air in the paper shred bedding. But never fear! They have a new home with fresh food at the Sustainable Living Centre after a few hours of digging through compost to find them. If you are interested in worm composting visit www.cathyscomposters.com/

Naturally yours,

Messy Jesse the Intern

PS. I’ve been given some awesome links to environmental web sites, so I've put some of the best links at below... Enjoy!

How to Recycle Anything
http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/organizing/tips-techniques/recycle-anything-00000000006117/

Large online community of people who want to “Make a Difference”
http://www.care2.com/

The Art of living lightly on this earth
http://www.weconserve.ca/