Graham Learn does not hold back in his support for the Canadian Federal Skilled Worker Program.
"Honestly, it was life changing," said the Oxford County pork producer. "I've got to meet great people from a different country and learn about their ...
It's fitting that we are meeting for Geoff King's "goodbye" story in the Robertson Tract near Auburn. Back in the day, when he first starting working with the Ministry of Natural Resources, King spent many hours in the forest pruning white pine ...
In my exuberance for the art of canning, I've spoken to my friends over the summer about canning experiences. I am taken aback at the number of 50-year-olds and older who no longer can. "Too much work," they say. "Not enough time," they explain.
Susan Chan likes what her family calls, her "projects". Carrying on the legacy of her father, John Hindmarsh, Susan has continued to create conservation projects on the home farm on Highway 21 just outside of Goderich.
Featuring several ponds...
At ten o'clock on a fine morning in late September, I arrived at Alice Munro's house in Clinton, to pick up Alice and her friend Sally Gregson. We were taking a day trip to Grey County.
This excursion came about from a request Alice made a few weeks...
As environmentally friendly products grow in popularity and people are becoming more aware of the harm that fast fashion is doing to the environment, so too is the demand for natural, locally sourced farm-raised fibre. Donna Hancock who farms near ...
When the goal is to make sure crops maximize the nutrients manure fertilizers and biosolids offer, farmers should be asking themselves three specific questions:
This past Spring, on a beautiful evening after the sounds of the day had faded away, Carl Brubacher of Carlotte Farms Inc. near Arthur stood in the midst of a field of corn residue and listened to the earthworms.
"This is a first," confessed Strathroy-Caradoc Mayor Joanne Vanderheyden with a smile, deftly inserting a vibrant UltraSour clone into rain-soaked Mt. Brydges-area soil. "I've never planted marijuana in my life."
Mayor Vanderheyden's growth opportunity..
When circumstances prevent farmers from getting an animal to the abattoir, Aaron Wall brings his rolling abattoir to them.
AA Cuts Mobile Butchery converts pure loss into full freezers for producers with a healthy, yet injured cow which can't be...
Graham Learn does not hold back in his support for the Canadian Federal Skilled Worker Program.
"Honestly, it was life changing," said the Oxford County pork producer. "I've got to meet great people from a different country and learn about their ...
What would compel a Bay Street actuary, someone who once managed a billion dollars of reserve liabilities, to abandon a secure, well-paying job with the potential for upward mobility for the precarious life of small-scale mixed farming?
