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To celebrate the Rural Voice magazine's 50th anniversary, let's take a walk back in time and see how far Ontario agriculture has come! This month, we're looking back only 10 years to the March 2015 issue and reflect on the major stories inside...
"Buffalo Ben" Van Haastert's love for his herd of prairie bison is tempered by a healthy dose of respect.
"They look very clumsy," he cautioned as we prepared to deliver a large round bale of hay into a feeder. "But that can change in three seconds."
Three young farmers share their experience growing for ethnic markets in Ontario....
While you may know John and Betty Stafford for their involvement in countless agricultural, community and sports organizations, we thought we'd treat you, dear readers, to their love story, in honour of Valentine's Day this month....
From a local shop to a globally-loved brand,
Mark Horst has built the equipment that saves the market for small square bales.
The rise of Ontario's hay co-op and growing exports to the Middle East.
Karen Poce delicately opens up a large quilt made of dozens of fabric pieces, including upholstery and hand painted details, pointing out the delicate embroidery. This is called a crazy quilt...
On November 28, 2024, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that it would be moving forward with its plan to create a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) ....
Owen Riegling is a man with momentum. It has only been two and a half years since he won the Emerging Artist Showcase that kicked his Country music career into high gear, and a whole heck of a lot has happened since then...
From the moment she burst onto the scene earlier this year, two-year-old Chantilly has been making a name for herself in the highly competitive world of Ontario harness racing...
Residents from Palmerston and Kincardine are fundraising to purchase MRI scanners for their hospitals, bringing life-saving technology closer to home.
With a father who grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, sisters in Brooklyn and Harlem and a brother in New Jersey, Urban Roots London Executive Director Anna Badillo's background is as "urban" as it gets...
Deep underground, aquifers are genuinely mysterious, but many Rural Voice readers, like Finley Cameron, will find themselves living on the most curious of all, a karst bedrock aquifer...
In early October, a group of 12 young Welsh farmers took southwestern Ontario by storm. They were with the Farming Connect Agri-Academy, a government-funded leadership program aimed at developing the skills of aspiring leaders in the Welsh agricultural...
It was ideal conditions on September 20 for drones to air-seed oats into a field of soybeans during Fall Demo Day at the Huronview Demonstration Farm outside of Clinton...
Kim Keckes has been farming since 2001 near Angus, the fourth generation on that land. When she needed to upgrade the barn's electrical panel, add an activity space, run hydro and install new water lines, any other farm could have taken out a bank loan...
There may be no better residence for a fifth-generation horse logger than an 1850s-era log cabin."I couldn't be happier," said Art Shannon, whose unique career has been featured in documentary movies including Workhorse, a Canadian film directed by ...
You may not be familiar with Capella Meadows yet, but Erik and Edda Boettcher's organic goat farm in Brussels is on the verge of becoming an essential destination for food fans from far and wide. People will be coming to their new farm store to pick up...
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 ...