Reducing emissions without hobbling our ability to produce food is a must
Tyler Brooks,
Director of Communications and Stakeholder Relations,
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Empty grocery store shelves in the Netherlands have made headlines recently, as farmers blocked food...
Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland every day
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
That is the average daily loss of farmland, according to data from the latest Census of Agriculture that was released last...
What would Mother Nature do?
by Rachel Gill
Here's a scary story to tell around the campfire this summer: Almost half of the world’s fertile soil has disappeared in the...
Billowy stands of an Invisible Invasive
by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
In June, 2009, the vegetation around a small pond we had dug in 1983, formerly dominated by Meadowsweet...
Sustainability – Gypsy Moth invasion exacerbated by climate change
Anyone who pays any attention to trees at all has noticed the destruction caused by the gypsy moth.
This is year three of a particularly...
Birds eat bugs
Not all birds eat seeds. People love to put up bird feeders, and fill them with seeds, but there are many birds that would...
Spraying Clearview Herbicide & Gateway Adjuvant
The Township of North Dundas, as well as the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry (SDG) began spraying roadsides with pesticides to control...
Gardening: No Mow May
No Mow May began in the UK, but quickly took off anywhere people were worried about the decline in pollinators, and the decline in...
Companion Planting
Companion planting is the practice of putting different plants together in the garden to benefit one or both of them. It can be as...
5 tips to consider before jumping into starting a hobby farm
(NC) Running a small farm with a garden and animals such as chickens, goats and pigs can be very rewarding. For many of us,...