A few weeks ago, a message came across my news feed letting me know that screech owls were having a tough winter. The thick snow cover has been protecting the mice, moles, and voles causing the owls to hunt in areas that they would not normally ...
It was a quiet morning when Bob Rowe toured me around Freedom Syrup headquarters back in the sugar bush, south of Walton, currently owned by Jeff and Shannon McGavin and family..
Maybe you haven't heard of Nick Szabo yet, but many of you would have. He was born and raised on a hog farm near Kirkton and was a manure contractor that liked to think big...
"Buffalo Ben" Van Haastert's love for his herd of prairie bison is tempered by a healthy dose of respect.
"They look very clumsy," he cautioned as we prepared to deliver a large round bale of hay into a feeder. "But that can change in three seconds."
Three young farmers share their experience growing for ethnic markets in Ontario....
While you may know John and Betty Stafford for their involvement in countless agricultural, community and sports organizations, we thought we'd treat you, dear readers, to their love story, in honour of Valentine's Day this month....
From a local shop to a globally-loved brand,
Mark Horst has built the equipment that saves the market for small square bales.
The rise of Ontario's hay co-op and growing exports to the Middle East.
On November 28, 2024, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that it would be moving forward with its plan to create a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) ....
Owen Riegling is a man with momentum. It has only been two and a half years since he won the Emerging Artist Showcase that kicked his Country music career into high gear, and a whole heck of a lot has happened since then...
From the moment she burst onto the scene earlier this year, two-year-old Chantilly has been making a name for herself in the highly competitive world of Ontario harness racing...
Residents from Palmerston and Kincardine are fundraising to purchase MRI scanners for their hospitals, bringing life-saving technology closer to home.
Deep underground, aquifers are genuinely mysterious, but many Rural Voice readers, like Finley Cameron, will find themselves living on the most curious of all, a karst bedrock aquifer...
What is a farmer, really?
That's a question I've been exploring the past 10 years as editor of The Rural Voice...
It's hard to believe the difference from the lush, healthy woodlot we were walking through compared to photos on a poster depicting the broken, barren bush left after the 2011 Goderich tornado.
The bush being explored this day during the Huron Clean ...
This is the third (perhaps not the final) installment of a series on land trusts and farmland access. In this month's story, a farm near Tiverton is continuing a life the original owners started for it, even now that they are gone...
Forage and grazing specialist, Christine O'Reilly, was having a hard time keeping farmers in line, which was necessary for safety. They couldn't wait to get into the rows of hay cut, raked, conditioned and tedded to compare the result from different ...
The plan was to start with a hike at the Normandy Tract on Concession 12 Ayton, a place described as "extensive plantation and wetlands...fishing" as the start of my daytripping experience in West Grey.
Thing is, I couldn't find it...
The number of tree species in Huron County's forests is "catastrophically low" reveals a condensed report of the Forest Health Project released April 9.
"Most of our trees are upland and downland Maples," says Erin Gouthro, who has been working...
An innovative start-up company comprised of university doctoral students or full PhDs is applying the age-old adage of "waste not, want not" to the very modern goal of a commercially-viable solution...
In 2019, Ronaldo (Rony) Lec and Myriam Legault moved from Guatemala to Ontario with their two young daughters. All they knew was that they needed to farm. While there is plenty of farmland in the province, gaining access to ...
It's not always easy to accept, the aging thing. Barbara McLean is experiencing that as an older shepherd, managing her small flock near Holstein, on a farm that took a lifetime to reclaim, restore and rejuvenate into the pastoral perfection ...
As you drive around the countryside, you may notice blue and red signs posted in fields. Small and humble, they are easy to miss. But they are an indication of the long-term dedication of many farmers, agriculture supply companies, individual ...
Attached to many of our garden plants are memories of people and places.
We will have already been harvesting rhubarb by the time this column is published, which brings to mind former neighbours, Charlie and Mariel. The original root they gave us came...