Potluck Passport Menu
A new and tasty way to engage with your lake!
Introducing the brand new Potluck Passport menu!
Bugs, Birds, and Bats, Oh My!
What do bats, butterflies, dragonflies, and birds have in common? They’re some of the hardest-working neighbours around your lake! Discover who pollinates your plants, who helps keep mosquitoes and other insects in check, and how you can make your shoreline a welcoming place for them.
Who's Living at the Water's Edge?
There’s a whole hidden world at the water’s edge!
Discover the tiny plants and creatures living in
and around your lake, from algae and zooplankton to aquatic plants and benthic bugs, and find out the surprisingly big roles they play in keeping a lake healthy.
Magical Moth Night!
What comes alive around your lake after dark?
Join us for a special evening exploration as we set up a moth light and white sheet and wait to
see who arrives! While we eat, we’ll discover the amazing moths and other creatures of the night,
why they matter, and how our nighttime choices affect them. We’ll also explore natural ways to
keep mosquitoes in check and simple lighting fixes that make nights friendlier for wildlife.
Wild Beyond the Water
The lake doesn’t end at the shoreline! Discover
how wildlife moves between the water, shoreline, yards, and surrounding landscape, and why what happens on your property matters to the life in your lake. Learn simple ways to rewild your yard and create places for wildlife to feed, shelter, travel, and thrive.
Soaring Above!
Who’s soaring, diving, and darting above your lake? Meet spectacular aerial neighbours, from plunging kingfishers and fish-catching ospreys to soaring eagles and beautiful songbirds. Discover their amazing behaviours, how they make a living around the lake, and what makes your shoreline an important home for birds.
Loving the Loons and Dabbling in Ducks
What makes a loon’s call so beautiful and haunting?
Why do ducks dabble, dive, anddisappear beneath the water?
Discover the fascinating behaviour and biology of loons,
ducks, and other waterfowl, then work together to build a floating nesting raft (or two!) to give the lake’s loons a safe place to raise their young.
Take-Home Activity
Group loon raft OR individual duck tubes
Kids' Craft
Duck whistles
Potluck Theme
Cheese & Quackers!
Featured Offering!
Rockin' Reptiles!
Meet the reptiles living around your lake! Discover the surprising lives of turtles, snakes, and skinks, why snapping turtles and snakes aren’t nearly as scary as they seem, and the important roles these misunderstood neighbours play in keeping our lakes healthy and safe too!.
Awesome Amphibians
What’s croaking, peeping, and hopping around your lake? Discover the amazing lives of frogs and toads: what they eat, how they hear, why they call, and where they disappear to in winter. Meet your amphibian neighbours and find out what makes your lake and shoreline a great place for them to call home.
Fantastic Fish
There’s a whole world swimming beneath your dock! Discover the fascinating lives of the fish in your lake, from where they spawn and what they eat to the habitats they need to thrive. Meet some of our most remarkable local fish, including a very special lake trout found nowhere else in the world, and discover how healthy water and shorelines help keep them swimming.
Alien Invaders?!
Who are the newcomers in your lake, and which ones are actually causing trouble? Meet some of our most common invasive plants and animals, learn how to spot them and how they got here, and discover simple ways we can help our lakes and native species stay healthy.
Who's in the Woods?
What’s happening in the woods just beyond your shoreline? Look up for owls, look down for salamanders, and discover the hidden world beneath the leaves! Explore how trees, fungi, tiny creatures, and wildlife are all connected, and how a healthy forest helps keep your lake healthy too.
Design Your Own Shoreline Garden
Bring a photo of your property and let’s rewild it together!
Work one-on-one with our team to create a custom design for your shoreline, while sharing ideas and learning practical solutions for erosion, geese, privacy screening, and more.
You’ll leave with your own shoreline design, recommended plant list, general cost estimates, and a seed sachet to help
you get started!
Take-Home Activity
Personalized Shoreline Garden Plan
Potluck Theme
From the Garden
Featured Offering!
*NOTE: This is a gathering designed for adults and does not have a kids' craft component
To see all of our offerings for our
Take-Home Rewilding Activities, Kids' Crafts, and Potluck Themes,
please click the link above!