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Every Thursday the coop hosts farmer’s from Ferme du Zéphyr based in Senneville.  Go read more on Spacing Montreal.

More fun spaces to explore this summer.  Michelle Lalonde lists 17 possible excursions for you and the family.

 Paradise, just around the corner
Explore 17 parks on Montreal Island, where you’ll find just what you need for a day’s getaway, from rides on an electric trolley to a stroll through the wild habitat of fox and white-tailed […]

Digging through the ingredient list on sunscreen is a pain in the ass.  The Environmental Working Group has done their homework and amassed a large searchable database of sunscreens to save you the pain.

I’m not a big sunscreen user, I tend to seek shaded nooks and trees with massive canopies.  However the little guy, well […]

Snapped this crazy pic on the way home from working up north last week.  Just a massive storm front moving across the island.  I had never seen anything so … linear … before.

As mentioned below by faithful commenter ‘the milliner’ people are often looking for alternatives to the way it used to be.  That being not giving a shit about the products we ingest or bring into our homes.  Options are becoming more readily available for every recipe, for every project.  Take plywood, please.
Columbia, North America’s largest […]

Montreal’s finest were just hit with a 60000$ verdict in the case of:
‘Oh sorry we didn’t mean to jump out of our cars with guns drawn assuming since you were three black men (in their 40’s and 50’s) that you were obviously robbing the house that one of you lives at…’
How about the case of […]

IKEA is large enough to set trends in the marketplace.  When they introduced a 0.05$ charge to take a plastic grocery bag, people took notice.
In the first six months of the “Bag the Bag” program, IKEA Canada has reduced its Plastic Bag use by 90 per cent across the country. Last October, IKEA Canada conducted […]

A little follow up on two previous posts.
The first being our visit to Windmill Point Farm last Saturday with a few close friends.  Getting to know your farmer made easy.  Stop by any Saturday and chat with the owners of a gorgeous, all natural, massive piece of land on Ile Perot.  Ask Ken about his […]

–Originally posted on scrolldowndigital.com (my original blog) Feb 2008
UPDATE (July 2008):  An even purer source of Vitamin D located at “Ki Nature and Sante“. The only issue however is that this is a single drop solution, meaning you need to dilute the D in either his food or a bottle of milk/formula.
You have a […]

Taking a cue from a great post entitled “This Store Blows” over at Racked.com… I present to you the 514 version.  Here’s their concept:
Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest […]

Here’s a quick read on what farmer’s go through during a transitional period, switching from industrial dairy farming to organic dairy farming.
 Organic milk demand is growing by an estimated 25 per cent a year, according to industry studies.
Fisher studied eight farms that switched from conventional to organic farming in recent years, detailing production levels, revenues […]

-Jean-Sebastien Peron - SEPAQ
I’m not a beach fan, but the little guy loves the sand…what’s a father to do?  Here are a few local beaches to visit.  I have to admit, Oka beach intrigues me and it has nothing to do with the possibility of seeing nudists in ‘action’.   Sucks that we live on an […]