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Kicking off the 2009 season

28 March 2009

Spring is finally here. I can tell because the requests for rain barrels and rain barrel information have been pouring in.
This year we have a few goals that we hope to accomplish:

We want to get instructions and maybe even a video up that will show how we go about building our rain barrels.
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Goldfish in a Rain Barrel

21 July 2008

 I have read a bit about people putting a 1″ gold fish in their rain barrels and having it grow to 6″ long. There is also the added bonus that they eat mosquito larvae as well! We don’t have mosquito problems with our barrels but the idea of having fish living in there was too [...]

Give Away Weekend - Ottawa

3 June 2008

This post is not rain barrel related, it is a plug for a great event that happens twice a year in Ottawa.
Give Away Weekend - Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8, 2008
Give Away Weekend is when you put any useful, unwanted items at the end of your driveway to give away to whomever wants [...]