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Garden of Nerdy Delights

A new teaching garden at the Wychwood Barns is trying to do something useful with QR codes.

Ever since QR codes—those square, barcode-ish things you can scan with the camera on a smartphone—started appearing on every flat surface, everywhere, they’ve felt like a solution in search of a problem. In theory, they could have useful applications, but so far they’ve served mainly as a way for advertisers to create printable links to [...]

Lose Yourself in the Humber Arboretum

If you’re hankering after some urban greenery but you’re tired of High Park, then you could do worse than a visit to the Humber Arboretum. It’s free, it’s quiet, and best of all, there are surprisingly few wasps. The arboretum, set up in 1977, is hidden behind Humber College way up in Toronto’s northwest, and [...]

Wild Toronto: Impatiens

Wild Toronto is a bi-weekly comic strip about the animals and plants that make a living in our city. Due to a lot of big (good!) changes, this is my last Wild Toronto comic. I’m really sad to have to go. Thanks so much for reading and for your insightful comments. Enjoy your wild spaces, [...]

Snappy Answers: Everything Spring

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. Spring is here, and I want to get started on building a garden on my third-storey deck. It’s only 8-by-8 feet and faces south, so it has direct sunlight for, like, 20 hours a day. Last summer, everything I [...]