Ontario calls on Canada to help farmers
Local MPP, Steve Clark, has joined Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in calling on the federal government to activate the...
Enhancing the eco-values of our patchwork landscape
by Philip Fry
We should, I think, be content with the patchwork landscape we have inherited and how it is being currently governed at both...
Creativity expressed through grafting
by Dan Driedger
The garden is a place of creativity and backyard adventure. It is for this reason that many choose not to seed grass...
The Food Corner
by Paul Cormier, Salamanders of Kemptville
I am a fan of strong tasting cheese (and they often have a strong smell to boot). At one...
Does mowing down the Golden Parsnips sustain them?
by Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Anyone driving Hwy 416 in early July would have wondered why its tourist name isn’t "The Golden Parsnip Highway,"...
The Triumph of the Bromes
submitted by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
Brandon Mayer’s recent article “Weed Spraying Facts” provides facts about the excuses that are used for roadside...
What does 175 acres actually mean?
According to the data presented in the 2016 Census of Agriculture from Statistics Canada, Ontario is losing an average of 175 acres of farmland...
Frogs in the El Niño Spring
by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
“The El Niño–Southern Oscillation is a climate phenomenon that exhibits irregular quasi-periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over...
New Guide launched to help Ontario Food Start-Ups
The Agri-Food Management Institute (AMI) launched 'The Food Entrepreneur’s Journey’ today, to help budding food manufacturers with practical step-by-step advice on how to build...
Common Local Trees are dying due to global warming
William John Langenberg, M.Sc Env. Biol.,
Former researcher and lecturer at Kemptville College
Climate change seems to have a devastating effect on some common local landscape...