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Doug Walker has lived on Fairview farm in North Huron all his life and the farm's woodlot helped make major mortgage payments when needed.
However, Doug and his wife Cathy believe this woodlot and others like it serve a greater purpose toward ...
Doug Johnson's childhood understanding of Owen Sound's Emancipation Festival was simply that it was a fun, family event.
"To us kids, it was just eating good food, running races, playing baseball and going to the river," smiled...
At a bend just before the road crosses the Ausable River south of Ailsa Craig, a shaded laneway emerges into another world: a gorgeous old yellow brick home with blue decorative shutters, chicken coops, the familiar hum of milking time coming...
Each summer, a Rural Voice writer goes on a day-trip to showcase the rural-based sites one can visit in Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey, Wellington or Oxford counties. This day trip took place in South Huron in June.
Editor's Note: Back in June, Scott Stephenson, a reporter with The Citizen, our sister publication, visited the Hallahan dairy farm near Blyth to learn about dairy farming and celebrate National Dairy Month. You'll quickly realize...
When considering what makes Blyth unique, the first thing that comes to most people's minds might be its hearty theatre scene, or perhaps its unofficial mascot ...
For two decades Sandra May Blodgett has lived in Paisley and for just about that length of time, she has wanted to create community with food. She's finally realized her dream with Orchard's Landing Paisley, a hub for food and food-connected ...
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 ...
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...
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...
When Cadmus Delorme grew up in Southern Saskatchewan on the Cowessess First Nation reservation, he did not know or believe he was a farmer. Neither did his father or grandfather.
"I remember every spring and fall, a non-Indigenous person ...
Jamie Visser's personalized beef-farming "reality TV" has become a valued virtual component of his operation.
Theft at a second, distanced property put security cameras on the Oxford County-based farmer's radar. But it's the real-time visual...
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 ...
Lindsay Partridge says she loves Liberty horse training because it helps riders get better at understanding themselves, their horse and the language that connects them.
Speaking on Horse Day on January 7 at Grey Bruce Farmers Week held in Elmwood...
Calling himself a "frustrated farmer", the president of Lactalis Canada which is the country's largest milk processor, said the company is all about defending dairy farmers against negative comments because the milk...
Nahneebahweequay's life exemplifies the nuanced complexity of combined Indigenous/colonial history, and the importance of recording and recognizing it along the path to truth and reconciliation.
"We should know her story," ...
Luke Hartung's ancestors were some of the first settlers to arrive in Perth County in the 1830s and it's not hard to imagine how proud they would be that the better life they imagined for their children and children's children is exemplified in Luke...
Road safety isn't very exciting until it is and no one ever calls the police for a good time which is why farmers need to follow the rules, no matter how desperate they are to get the crops off...
Ontario beef farmers saw record cattle prices in 2023, a trend that is expected to continue into 2024. Beef Farmers of Ontario president Jack Chaffe and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs chief economist Steve Duff who ...
Bailey's Local Foods is an online farmers' market offering consumers coordinated virtual access to the equivalent of 150 local farmgate stands, combined with the convenience of one-stop shopping and delivery...
There is a significant oversupply of aggregates and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is failing to adequately inspect aggregate operations, reveals a fact sheet on the Auditor General's Report on gravel mining in Ontario...
With all the rain, snow and pressure from thousands of tires, fixing the long laneways leading to the Gordon family's new dairy barn outside of Thedford was the order of business days after their open house...
Kevin Aitken of Grey County wanted to expand his beef herd but couldn't find more land to rent. Blake Vince of Kent County wanted cattle to improve his land without purchasing an entire herd or building a barn. The like-minded duo formed ...
A dairy producer watching his herd may only notice a quarter of the cows that are actually lame in his barn due to familiarity and limited practice using locomotion scoring.