Protecting plant health essential to sustainability: New report
GLOBE NEWSWIRE
From farms to forests, Canada’s plants face increasingly complex threats and protecting them is imperative to sustain the health and wealth they provide,...
Canadian Farmland is a Global Oasis
by Ralph C. Martin
In John Ibbitson’s Globe and Mail article “There may be an answer to the housing crisis - Let cities sprawl”, he...
Energy:The Transition to Electricity
by Philip Fry
The Provincial Government has stitched many of the threads that bind the three layers of our landscape quilt together. Complementing our access...
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...