Support line for farmer wellness now live

A telehealth line to provide mental wellness support to all Ontario farmers and farm families is now live.  Through the Farmer Wellness Initiative, the provincial...

A New Year’s Agenda for Environmental Adaptation

by Philip Fry I was spurred to begin this column by the October 2021 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a survey...

Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug found in Merrickville

by William Langenberg We have a new pest. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an excellent hitchhiker and extremely invasive. It made its way...

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...

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...

Deck the halls with gifts sourced locally

by Tracey Arts, Director, OFA It’s been another challenging year as we continued to navigate the pandemic while simultaneously juggling our daily roles of entrepreneur,...

From Colonial Grid to Patchwork Landscape

by Philip Fry When colonial settlement was initiated in our region in the late eighteenth century, the forest inhabited by indigenous peoples was seen as...

Interbreeding with Aliens

by Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad, Fragile Inheritance Natural History On the radio and internet, you often encounter pitches for stories or movies of unknown...

Soil, Landscape, and Reconciliation

submitted by Philip Fry Not long after “CO2 Down to Earth 2” appeared in the NGT, I dropped in to see friends who live just...

Obvious Snails

by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History When a species has “obvia” as its specific epithet, and it’s so conspicuous that you can survey its...