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Dale and Sallianne Patch have always been horse people but they've never had horses like the herd of Lac La Croix Indian Ponies, also known as Spirit or Ojibwe horses, at their horse farm near Gads Hill in Perth County called Aspens Ojibwe Horses...
If you've been missing the squeaky curds which rolled off the Pine River Cheese assembly line for decades before the plant closed, be ready ... they will soon be available again.
"Everyone wants the curds. And they have to squeak," says Mary Duden...
The beat-up old 1951 Cockshutt 40 sat outside for years on Wayne Eggleston's grandfather's farm. One day, young Wayne asked his grandfather, Gerald Dustow, if he could start it up.
"If you are interested in getting it running...
I have a 24-inch photo enlargement supported on my fridge by magnets. It shows my father and grandfather baling straw on the York County farm where I grew up. Invaluable. Thanks to the technology that enables scanning of a 1955 Kodachrome slide ...
Traveling to Wellington County for a day trip from Huron County and through Perth County is like passing through the land of milk honey.
The Amish and Mennonite communities and other entrepreneurial spirits offered flowers, eggs, vegetables...
StormFisher Vice-President of Development, Brandon Moffatt, has heard more than once about one person's trash being another's treasure.
"That's very fair," he allowed, adding the other metaphor he catches frequently is "we're a dairy cow."
Officially...
There's a curious vine growing in Ben Caeser's greenhouse at Fiddlehead Nursery near Kimberley. Maybe it's not how curious the vine is, but HOW it's growing.
Emerging at regular intervals from the centre of the greenhouse are seedless grape vines...
Alpacas and tarts were at the top of the list for a day trip into Bruce County and both those things could be found at the southernmost end of Bruce, in the small town of Lucknow.
Adria Graham was making dryer balls of alpaca wool when ...
Mixed farming seemed to have disappeared from the farm landscape but enterprising young farmers are recreating this farming ideal with a new twist.
Maitland Acres near Auburn is such a farm. Operated by Bryon and Jessica Beyersbergen, the couple is...
Beekeepers are reporting staggering losses as they open hives and discover colony after colony of bees dead.
"This is all across Canada," reports Bernie Wiehle, owner of Wiehle's Wildflower Honey near Rodney who spoke to members of the Ausable Bee...
While grazing may have been the norm in these parts of Ontario decades ago, most of the cattle have now moved into barns, while the fences and fencerows have been removed. But there is a growing demand for grass-fed beef and there are many ...
Most everyone goes through a challenging season personally or professionally, but those with the tools of everyday resiliency survive better than most, believes Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe.
"Today is day 725 of a global health pandemic...
Women entrepreneurship is growing in Canada as Statistics Canada reports a 30 per cent increase in women-owned businesses in the last 10 years. That number has certainly increased during the last two years with the COVID-19 pandemic....
In its landmark 2016 report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Indian Residential Schools (TRC) called on all Canadians to walk the path of reconciliation and right relationship with Indigenous peoples in Canada.
"We all have a...
As with many new dining experiences, there was prescribed etiquette to be learned and observed at Udderly Ridiculous near Bright.
It wasn't so much which fork or spoon for which dish or which glass for which wine. In fact, place setting...
It sounds quite grand to own your own airport but Summer and Tyler Papple are farmers at heart with a new love for flying that gives them confidence that the acquisition of the Wingham Airport will be a good fit for their own aviation company...
It's been 40 years since the class of 1982 graduated from Centralia College and though the college is now closed, the graduates' memories are alive and well and were shared at a reunion held April 2.
"I look back and those were only two years...
A new generation of Gardiners are finding their voice at Dave Gardiner Farms Inc. in Kirkton and Dave is all about hearing it.
Three generations of the family are sitting at the office table. They are all here because Dave said it was their voices ...
It could be seen as the most rural of mid-life metamorphosis. Jeremy Toth did turn in his banker's suit for blue jeans and a plaid flannel shirt, but rather than speeding down the highway in a shiny new convertible, he's slowly rolling through...
Behold: bats, mammalian order Chiroptera, one of nature's most remarkable yet misunderstood, undervalued and sometimes maligned creatures.
In existence since the time of dinosaurs, bat species number more than 1,400 worldwide, 40 in North America...
Faith, family, farmland: a perfect trio to which both Steve and Val Bachert of Blyth Creek Maple Farm have dedicated themselves fully. And by farmland, in particular, there are the 1,000 or so maple trees that produce the sugary goodness that...
Sheep farming is a family affair at Ewe-Nique Dairy owned by Mark and Rosena Martin and has grown with a new barn and cheese store so that each of their six children could have work on the family farm.
"Milking sheep is labour-intensive but ...
Faith, family, farmland: a perfect trio to which both Steve and Val Bachert of Blyth Creek Maple Farm have dedicated themselves fully. And by farmland, in particular, there are the 1,000 or so maple trees that produce the sugary goodness that...
Sheep farming is a family affair at Ewe-Nique Dairy owned by Mark and Rosena Martin and has grown with a new barn and cheese store so that each of their six children could have work on the family farm.
"Milking sheep is labour-intensive but ...