Flower Power

Canola fields aren’t just nice to look, they’re also nice to live in especially if you’re a honey bee, butterfly, spider or any of the other beneficial insects that help provide a natural check on insect pest populations, and keep our ecosystem thriving. The Canola Council of Canada is a proud member of the Honeybee Health Coalition, a group of beekeepers, growers, researchers, government agencies, conservation groups and more, who are working together to improve honey bee health here in Canada. Share this post and follow our Facebook page to build awareness for biodiversity protection, and help our honeybees thrive!

Thanks to conservation tillage, which means farmers make fewer passes over their fields, Canadian canola farmers use 126 to 194 million fewer litres of diesel fuel on their farms each year, which results in 450,000 to 750,000 fewer tonnes of annual GHG emissions! Visit https://flower-power.ca/ to learn more about how Canadian canola can help Canada meet its GHG reduction targets and clean up our atmosphere.

By moving away from tilling and adopting low-till and no-till practices, Canadian canola farmers sequester nearly 8 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in their fields every year, removing it from the atmosphere and helping to clean up our air. And that’s not all. Not only can canola sequester the harmful GHGs released by burning fossil diesel, it can also help replace them entirely: canola can be used to create biofuel, a clean-burning, low carbon, 100% renewable alternative to traditional diesel. Check out https://flower-power.ca/ to learn more about how Canadian canola can help Canada fight climate change.

Officially speaking, the White Trillium is Canada's national flower. But unofficially? Canola is not only one of our most beautiful blossoms, but also one of hour hardest working. The canola plant captures CO2 from the atmosphere and converts it into energy, helping us reduce greenhouse gas emissions and clean up the atmosphere, while the canola industry employs more than 250,000 people and contributes nearly $30 billion to Canada’s economy each year. Learn more about canola's (many) contributions to Canada at http://flower-power.ca/