Resources
Videos:
Seed Harvesting as Down Feather Replacement
News:
Eco-Entrepreneurship in Action, Helen Lepp Friesen (November 26, 2025)
Homegrown solution - Winnipeg Free Press Homes, Colleen Zacharias (October 4, 2025)
Manitoba Startup benefits from new tax credit, EMILI (Septembre 19,2025)
Typha Co is growing with help from MB tax credit- SBVCTC , Devon Shewchuk (August 2, 2025)
Cattails Revealed, Greenhouse Canada, Dr. Singh (ACC) (March 10, 2025)
Residents call proposed peat mine a threat to Lake Winnipeg Washow Bay, Dave Baxter (Nov 21, 2024)
Replacing Peat Moss: a tale of ingenuity, co-operation New cattail products could revolutionize gardening practices, protect the planet, Thandi Vera (April 29,2024)
Typha Co. Closes the circle on Lake Winnipeg Pollution, Supply Chain Manitoba (2023)
Canadian Space Agency funds SSE to Develop Natural Infrastructure Solutions to Climate Change
Literature:
Grosshans, R., Glass, P., & Roy, D. (2015). Cattail Biomass in a Watershed-Based Bioeconomy: Commercial-scale harvesting and processing for nutrient capture, biocarbon and high-value bioproducts. International Institute of Sustainable Development. Retrieved December 2, 2025, from https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/cattail-biomass-watershed-based-bioeconomy-commercial-scale-harvesting-and
Grosshans, R. E. (2014). Cattail (Typha spp.) Biomass Harvesting for Nutrient Capture and Sustainable Bioenergy for Integrated Watershed Management [University of Manitoba]. https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/efd56a5c-90ae-4515-a9b3-9d8541b5f2d3/content
Voora, V. A., McCandless, M., Roy, D., Venema, H. D., & Oborne, B. (2012). Water quality trading in the Lake Winnipeg Basin: A multilevel architecture. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 38, 183–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2011.09.009
Jeke, N. N., Zvomuya, F., Cicek, N., Ross, L., & Badiou, P. (2015). Biomass, Nutrient, and Trace Element Accumulation and Partitioning in Cattail (Typha latifolia L.) during Wetland Phytoremediation of Municipal Biosolids. Journal of Environmental Quality, 44(5), 1541–1549. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.02.0064
Jeke, N. N., Zvomuya, F., Cicek, N., Ross, L., & Badiou, P. (2019). Nitrogen and Phosphorus Phytoextraction by Cattail (Typha spp.) during Wetland-based Phytoremediation of an End-of-Life Municipal Lagoon. Journal of Environmental Quality, 48(1), 24–31. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.05.0184
State of Lake Winnipeg. (2011). Environment Canada and Manitoba Water Stewardship. https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/pubs/water/lakes-beaches-rivers/state_of_lake_winnipeg_rpt_technical_high_resolution.pdf
State of Lake Winnipeg 2nd Edition. (2020). Environment and Climate Change Canada. https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/pubs/water/lakes-beaches-rivers/state_lake_wpg_report_tech.pdf
The Impacts of Wetland Loss in Manitoba. (2008). Ducks Unlimited Canada. https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/water/watershed/iwmp/netley/documentation/wetlands_and_water_management_netley.pdf
Presentations & Infographics:
Example of constructed wetlands and nutrient uptake (USA)
