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Late in 2021, Gary Forbes received a bale wrap compactor on his farm in Northern Bruce Peninsula. He is one of many Bruce County farmers now participating in the Building a Zero Plastics Waste Strategy for Agriculture pilot developed ...
Calving season can be both an exciting and stressful time of year for cow-calf producers and having a plan in place can help improve calving success. Grey Bruce Farmers' Week Beef Day hosted a timely beef farmer panel to discuss ...
Lisa Thompson is not only the Ministry of Agriculture of Food and Rural Affairs, she's also a self-confessed foodie who shared her favourite recipes in one of 24 inaugural stories for the newly launched People's Archive of Rural Ontario (PARO)...
Looking for inspiration on what approach to take on your farm? Judging from a panel speaking on the future of agriculture, you can export to the world, sell at the farmgate and/or be a mixed farm on a large scale to be profitable, happy...
I apologize in advance. I usually try to write something thought-provoking or inspiring for this column, but I don't think I have it in me right now. Instead of leaving this space blank (can I do that, Lisa?!)... could I just be honest with you?
It was an energetic eight-month-old equivalent of "two-thumbs-up" for a highly-successful inaugural Berrylicious Fruit Farm taste test.
"First fresh off-the-bush blueberry," smiled young Gavin Allison's mom, Brittany. "He's pretty happy," she continued..
While media reports have revealed poor conditions some seasonal workers experience in Canada, Felena Pereira of Trinidad and Tobago says her employer made Christmas 2020 in lock-down a great experience and she now wants to ...
Change is often the result of childhood experiences and three panelists recently shared how having a sick dad, being gay or wishing the world was a better place spurred them to change the food system in their own unique ways.
In Seaforth, Ontario, a family business named Everspring is making products that are meeting the demand for healthier, whole, minimally-processed food. The factory is a true family affair with parents Dale and Marianne Donaldson at the helm and...
As their recent public testimonials reveal, Ontario's various non-governmental farm organizations are tilling some new, and reconciliatory, ground.
On September 30th, the Ontario Federation of Farmers (OFA), National Farmers-Union-Ontario (NFU-O)...
Several years ago Gabe and Deborah Caira looked at a property southeast of Blyth and saw their home. They also saw a space they could turn into The Ecobubble: a biologically diverse space into which they could grow.
They purchased the property on ....
There's a good vibe going on at Coastal Coffee near Kintail. It's a kind of hippy, West Coast, vibe which is what owners Ben and Bri Gingerich are trying to cultivate.
There are two Volkswagon vans outside the former Presbyterian church, now home...
Every time you open a hive, the bees are trying to tell a story and a good beekeeper can interpret that story and give them what they need.
So says Colette Mesher, sleeveless and wearing shorts, who quietly enters...
To her husband Art Shannon, Dr. Kymberley Snarr is the 'Organic Cop', a term of endearment paying homage to her father William's tenure as Superintendent, Peel Region Police.
"I'm not," laughs Kymberley, an independent International Organic Inspectors...
This summer, there was a tornado to the left and to the right of the Frayne Farm on Highway 21 near Kingsbridge but on September 7, a tornado came directly at the farm. It destroyed a pig barn, an old bank barn, a silo and two grain bins while...
Dairy farming is about constant improvement believe Jeff and Yvonne Van Soest of Hensall, along with their 24-year old son Connor. Nine years ago, the Van Soests purchased a dairy farm on 17th Line near Hensall and ...
The best friends involved in Tiny Footprint Homes are both young married men with three young children. One day, Josh Batkin and Paul Arts discussed the lack of affordable housing and how it was impacting peoples' lives...
This pretty repurposed grain bin might inspire you! It is located at the home of Reg and Cheryl Gardlner who live along the Ilderton Road near Thorndale.
Cheryl Gardiner could picture in her mind how the grain bin could become a bunkie...
There is a high school science textbook used by physics teacher Tom Franklin which features a double spread of a skinny cow, fenced in by barbed wire, under the subject "factors affecting climate change"..
Julie-Anne Staehli and her family hosted a community party at their Lucknow farm to celebrate Julie-Anne's return home after running the 5,000 metre race for Team Canada in the oppressive heat during the Tokyo Olympics...
In the morning, when slugs crawl away from the large vegetable garden Margo and Andy Uyl of Clinton have planted to support FOTOCAN orphanages, Margo stomps them. "With joy,"she adds with a laugh...
When Bill and Dawn Loney, teachers by trade, bought their Georgian Bluffs farm in 1977, they had a dream of creating a sustainable little community where friendships are as important as livestock. Their new job as farmers included resurrecting...
Digital infrastructure needs to be thought of as a digital barn, a place where data is stored, analyzed and maintained so that when new markets emerge, farmers are ready to participate profitably...
From shoveling feed and milking in a parlour three times a day, Gary Pletsch and family are going fully robotic with a new barn that will reveal just how robotic and digitized dairy farming has become.