People have said it takes a village to raise a child, and in rural Ontario that might look like dedicated 4-H club leaders and community members gathered at a Youth Show and Sale, ready to bid on a kid's first market lamb.
It is the first snow day of the year near Kincardine and, while most kids are sleeping in, Lindsay Dykeman's three boys -- aged nine, eleven and thirteen -- are doing barn chores while she sits down for a phone interview with the Rural Voice.
For a week every January, farmers in Grey and Bruce Counties brave the snowy roads and crowd their trucks into the parking lot of the Elmwood Community Centre. Inside, they are greeted with the smell of a roast beef lunch coming from downstairs....
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by farmland lost. It is hard to know how to make an impact and preserve land for agriculture. But Farms at Work is stepping up and doing something about it. It is one of those changemaker organizations that sees an issue..
When Don Lobb fired up his tractor to start planting in the spring of 1980, he wasn't quite sure what was about to happen...
The Beaver Valley in Grey County, itself carved into the escarpment by the last glacier, exposes the underlying bedrock in a formidable, eroded face overlooking the village of Kimberley. Known as Old Baldy, tourists and Bruce Trail hikers like to have...
If you drove by Grazing Meadows Wagyu outside of Brussels the last two summers, you might have seen a group of Tim and Donna Prior's cows grazing a pasture in a strip. That would have been typical, mind you, but if you were driving by slowly enough...
It was 1940, a time of national emergency. At the start of the Second World War, Hitler's army ruthlessly swept across western Europe. Britain suffered devastating bombing raids and food shortages due to German blockades.
The Community Hall in the corner of the IPM was filled with quilts from local guilds, but there was one you shouldn't have missed. The Quilt of Belonging is a ten-foot tall and 120-foot long collaborative textile art piece. It would have taken your ...
The Haas family discusses poultry, from the Old World to new regulations in Ontario
Iuliia Dovzhenko and Bill Geisel build a farm, family and community of support for Ukrainian immigrants to Huron County
It is Friday evening in early July at Hogendoorn Dairy, outside of Baden. The evening milking is finished. But one employee on the farm will be working through the night. In fact, it has been working day and night all week, and hasn't complained once....
A few decades ago, this may have been science fiction, but finally, the future has arrived. There are a host of autonomous machines working in Ontario fields this summer...
The highlight of Roy's basement museum is a model replica of his family's barn in the middle of the room. Intricately painted in the original red, with a green roof and white trim, it reads "F. W. Yungblut & Sons" in white letters on the side...
There's nothing quite like a field of canola in full bloom, a barley field making waves in the wind, or a group of excited cattle mowing down on a field of clover. They are rare enough to see these days, with corn and soybeans more common...
Dr. Shari van de Pol brings cutting-edge technology to dairy farmers' fingertips...
The 22% interest rates of the 1980s and the Ontario farmers who pushed back ...
This month, we are heading back 30 years to the May 1995 issue of the Rural Voice and, as you could perhaps guess from the cover, it had a strong focus on barns and the building boom of the 1990s...
Imagine a place where people -- young and old, rural and urban -- come to learn about agriculture and food. Whether on a school trip or a family outing, people walk through both permanent and rotating exhibits which give them a fun and interactive...
LaVerne Weber walks us across a rolling, 110-acre field in northern Illinois, dotted with control structures along the perimeter and down a grassed waterway running through the middle...
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 ...