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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 ...
Growing no-till vegetables requires a strategy with lots of mulch and use of tarps or cover crops to control weeds, say three vegetable growers.
Speaking on no-till vegetable farming at the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario's annual ...
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...
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 ....