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Phil Main, long-time radio host and musician, loves to connect with people in his community and now he's doing it as a podcaster.
Since teaming up with Ally Campbell-Main in life and work, the pair are telling the stories of artists, business owners...
The first goal was to find a "better place" to raise their family. Once living on the nine-acre property on Wilmot Easthope Rd. in Perth East, Stephen and Casey Howanyk kept looking at the barn, the five-acre hayfield and their goats and wondered...
The Arboretum's Elm Recovery Project (ERP) is striving to return a foundational Ontario species from trees which merely survive, to majestic 200-year-old icons which fully thrive.
"These are giants ....
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...