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...
Flowers in your vegetable garden – try mixing it up!
Seems like people either grow food, or grow flowers. If they do grow both, we've been conditioned to grow them separately; we have the...
Sustainability : Re-wilding
Rewilding is the process of returning an area to a previous, more natural state; reversing the destruction of the natural world, while restoring complex...
Gardening…. in February
The beginning of February finds many of us planting pepper seeds, wondering just how long they will take to germinate this year! Sweet potatoes...
Gardening: I forgot the Onions!
I forgot the onions!! Digging through my big bag of seeds last week, I realised that I'd forgotten all about onions! Onions are very...
Role of women evolving in farming sector
by Sara Wood, Director, OFA
Traditionally, agriculture has been a male-dominated industry, but women have always played very pivotal roles in farm businesses – just...
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...
Claude’s Gardening & Landscaping Forum
Dear Claude,
Dealing with a bumpy lawn. We have a well-established lawn (20 Years) on a clay soil. The lot is about 12,500sq feet (minus...
Gardening: Native Plants
When you are starting seeds, buying annuals and perennials at the nursery, or choosing which trees to add to your garden, consider sticking to...
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...