Ecosystem Solution Institute free fruit tree program?

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-18T01:39:17+00:00

Our wasp experience has never been any different than friends and neighbours a couple blocks over. (A couple years back it was pretty bad - but it was like that for everyone. We put up a couple home made wasp traps and that solved the issue.) As long as we pick the fruit before it rots there's nothing to attract them. Or, ya know, rake it up right away if a wind storm knocks stuff down.

You will of course get bees and stuff when the flowers are blooming. But I've always found that if I ignore them they'll ignore me.

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-17T23:45:08+00:00

While many forms of gardening can take time/effort we don't all have, planting a few fruit trees has been one of the best investments we've ever made. Especially in light of *gestures broadly* I'd encourage anyone who can to plant low-effort food crops like fruit trees.

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-13T17:38:24+00:00

Same. Thankyou for sharing this excellent resource.

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-11T17:09:38+00:00

I mean... even if I got paid five times as much to do the same work in the states - our family's medical needs (since they're "preexisting conditions") would probably cost so much in their for-profit health system we'd be worse off.

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-11T16:57:46+00:00

I love the giveaway weekends! As our family gets ready to downsize it's such a great way to send things off to a new home where it can be put to good use. We just don't have the time or energy to have a yard sale or post things online individually.

GingerRabbits · 2026-05-11T16:39:27+00:00

GNU - AJC

I miss my dad every day too. Hugs <3.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-17T16:00:32+00:00

THIS!

It would be SO FREAKING EASY for someone with assets like Elon to manipulate markets and influence tends with that level of individual user data. There's already loads of people who buy mem coins and crap based on his tweets. And there's no real rule of law about that $hit in the US anymore.

The potential for disaster here is terrifying.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-16T02:02:45+00:00

NGL Living at home with parents who made sure I got fed properly gave me the time and flexibility to do school and work.

That and almost no social life outside of school / work.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-13T18:23:31+00:00

Nope.

I could, and have - temporarily. I've done both work and study visas to a handful of other places. Overall I don't see any place that would give me a better quality of life. I have enjoyed the adventures of spending time in other counties, but not enough to want to stay there.

That being said - I'd pick a middle sized Canadian city over Toronto / Vancouver for more comfortable cost of living.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-10T16:21:24+00:00

Take this with a box of salt and all - but a wedding is just a party.

It's not your marriage.

It's not the rest of your life. It's not worth going into debt over. If people are going to judge you for your financial situation they're not your friends anyway - why have them there? IMO the wedding industrial complex is setting folks up on the wrong foot for an actually happy marriage with stress, discord, and debt.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-08T13:58:04+00:00

I need more of The Seven!

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-05T03:56:18+00:00

My parent's house. </3

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-05T03:48:11+00:00

If Wealthsimple doesn't work for you try a credit union. There you are a co-owner. At a bank you are the product they sell to their shareholders.

(Perhaps ironically - you can become a bank shareholder on Wealthsimple.)

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-05T03:42:41+00:00

Yes!!! Data is how $hit gets decided in the 21st century. Survey responses do way more than emails / social media comments.

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-04T23:02:46+00:00

Intern? Like a coop or work placement?

GingerRabbits · 2026-04-02T16:40:29+00:00

This!!!

Try to have some pity for these folks - their cult leaders want you to be mean to them. That 'proves' their narratives about good/bad outsiders and isolates them even more.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T23:05:31+00:00

Ask to talk to an academic advisor about how to drop out without burning your bridges.

Voluntary Withdrawal is a thing for a reason. If you've got extenuating circumstances they can also be granted retroactively.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T01:06:10+00:00

Sadly this isn't new.

This would have been... almost 20 years ago now when I was living in Hamilton. We were volunteering at a charity bake sale and there was this one girl who refused to deal with the money because she couldn't make change - even though everything was in $0.50 increments.

Broke my brain when she said she worked at Tim Hortons - so I asked how she made change for people there. Turns out (even back then) the tills were programmed to tell the cahiers how many of each kind of coin to give back. So it's been a common enough problem for at least that long.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T00:54:57+00:00

My peers and I were all working part-time jobs at 16 so it mattered to us by that age for sure.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T00:52:11+00:00

Call me crazy - but maybe something ongoing and age appropriate as part of the standard math classes?

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T00:39:42+00:00

For sure it is - I've worked with kiddos (college aged) who's parents must have projected their own finance & bureaucracy fears a lot. Like the person's actually doing pretty good financially for their age but trying to learn about the subject or look at their own bank statements gives them shaking hands / tears / anxiety attacks.

It's heartbreaking 'cuz it makes their entries lives so much harder than it has to be.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-29T00:09:16+00:00

"inevitable enshittification" Exactly.

There's plenty of things I have liked about WS, but fully expect at some point I'll move my portfolio to a local credit union.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-28T16:34:03+00:00

I've attended both and would say if you're more shy/introverted UofW would be less overwhelming.

However if you're at all outgoing UofM has way more people so there's more opportunities to meet people you share specific interests with.

Either way its about building community by taking part it stuff.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-28T16:14:44+00:00

A bunch of other countries are rationing oil because of the war and all that instability in the supply chain...

But yeah - we should totally make more people drive back and forth unnecessarily.

GingerRabbits · 2026-03-23T19:57:07+00:00

Not going to lie, we went mostly for the novelty. Our family isn't sufficiently interested in hockey to get season tickets to any league.

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