Drop in with your family and create a puppet show to celebrate the flora and fauna in the Oldman Watershed. With guidance from professional puppeteer Wendy Passmore-Godfrey of Calgary’s WP Puppet Theatre, make...
FISH STICKS! Family Puppet Workshop
Farming Smarter might look similar to the many agricultural operations around Lethbridge, but hiding inside its nondescript buildings are some far-from-ordinary equipment and tools. We’re here to hear from Lewis Baarda, the on-farm research authority and Field-Tested Manager at Farming Smarter, about their work in crop innovations.
Dr. Christy Goldhawk, general manager of the Waldron Grazing Co-operative, shares how this unique collective approaches shared land and water stewardship.
If you have been following the work of the OWC, you may have noticed that we invest significant time and effort in restoring Alberta’s landscapes with our many partners—planting willows on streambanks to reduce erosion, building beaver dam analogues, installing wattle fencing, removing invasive plants so native species can thrive, and more. But why does this work matter?
Alvin First Rider is the Environmental Manager with Blood Tribe Land Management. In this blog, he shares his experience working in land stewardship, and his knowledge of the role that fire plays, and has played, on the prairie.
