This Saturday is Love Your Greats Day, a chance to reflect on how lucky we are to live in the Great Lakes Basin.
Ausable Bayfield Healthy Watershed Technician, Hope Brock, says one of the goals of Love Your Greats Day is to reinforce the concept that what we do on the land, even a considerable distance from the lake, does have an impact on the lake.
"Really the concept that what we do on the land and even far from the lake, has an impact on the lake. So it's just really to bring awareness to those actions and the positive actions that we can take to help the lake."
Brock says rain gardens are one way of keeping water on the land longer and preventing nutrients from running into streams and ultimately into the lake. Farmers planting cover crops is also an effective way of holding the soil in place, but also keeping the nutrients in the field rather than in the streams and rivers.
Brock points out, when we live as close to the lake as we do, it's easy to take it for granted.
"When we do live so close and we sometimes take it for granted, so it's just a good time to think about how lucky we are and protect what we have."
