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With a father who grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, sisters in Brooklyn and Harlem and a brother in New Jersey, Urban Roots London Executive Director Anna Badillo's background is as "urban" as it gets...
Deep underground, aquifers are genuinely mysterious, but many Rural Voice readers, like Finley Cameron, will find themselves living on the most curious of all, a karst bedrock aquifer...
In early October, a group of 12 young Welsh farmers took southwestern Ontario by storm. They were with the Farming Connect Agri-Academy, a government-funded leadership program aimed at developing the skills of aspiring leaders in the Welsh agricultural...
It was ideal conditions on September 20 for drones to air-seed oats into a field of soybeans during Fall Demo Day at the Huronview Demonstration Farm outside of Clinton...
Kim Keckes has been farming since 2001 near Angus, the fourth generation on that land. When she needed to upgrade the barn's electrical panel, add an activity space, run hydro and install new water lines, any other farm could have taken out a bank loan...
There may be no better residence for a fifth-generation horse logger than an 1850s-era log cabin."I couldn't be happier," said Art Shannon, whose unique career has been featured in documentary movies including Workhorse, a Canadian film directed by ...
You may not be familiar with Capella Meadows yet, but Erik and Edda Boettcher's organic goat farm in Brussels is on the verge of becoming an essential destination for food fans from far and wide. People will be coming to their new farm store to pick up...
Phil Main, long-time radio host and musician, loves to connect with people in his community and now he's doing it as a podcaster.
Since teaming up with Ally Campbell-Main in life and work, the pair are telling the stories of artists, business owners...
The first goal was to find a "better place" to raise their family. Once living on the nine-acre property on Wilmot Easthope Rd. in Perth East, Stephen and Casey Howanyk kept looking at the barn, the five-acre hayfield and their goats and wondered...
The Arboretum's Elm Recovery Project (ERP) is striving to return a foundational Ontario species from trees which merely survive, to majestic 200-year-old icons which fully thrive.
"These are giants ....
The plan was to start with a hike at the Normandy Tract on Concession 12 Ayton, a place described as "extensive plantation and wetlands...fishing" as the start of my daytripping experience in West Grey.
Thing is, I couldn't find it...
Forage and grazing specialist, Christine O'Reilly, was having a hard time keeping farmers in line, which was necessary for safety. They couldn't wait to get into the rows of hay cut, raked, conditioned and tedded to compare the result from different ...
This is the third (perhaps not the final) installment of a series on land trusts and farmland access. In this month's story, a farm near Tiverton is continuing a life the original owners started for it, even now that they are gone...
It's hard to believe the difference from the lush, healthy woodlot we were walking through compared to photos on a poster depicting the broken, barren bush left after the 2011 Goderich tornado.
The bush being explored this day during the Huron Clean ...
Doug Walker has lived on Fairview farm in North Huron all his life and the farm's woodlot helped make major mortgage payments when needed.
However, Doug and his wife Cathy believe this woodlot and others like it serve a greater purpose toward ...
Doug Johnson's childhood understanding of Owen Sound's Emancipation Festival was simply that it was a fun, family event.
"To us kids, it was just eating good food, running races, playing baseball and going to the river," smiled...
At a bend just before the road crosses the Ausable River south of Ailsa Craig, a shaded laneway emerges into another world: a gorgeous old yellow brick home with blue decorative shutters, chicken coops, the familiar hum of milking time coming...
Each summer, a Rural Voice writer goes on a day-trip to showcase the rural-based sites one can visit in Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey, Wellington or Oxford counties. This day trip took place in South Huron in June.
Editor's Note: Back in June, Scott Stephenson, a reporter with The Citizen, our sister publication, visited the Hallahan dairy farm near Blyth to learn about dairy farming and celebrate National Dairy Month. You'll quickly realize...
When considering what makes Blyth unique, the first thing that comes to most people's minds might be its hearty theatre scene, or perhaps its unofficial mascot ...
For two decades Sandra May Blodgett has lived in Paisley and for just about that length of time, she has wanted to create community with food. She's finally realized her dream with Orchard's Landing Paisley, a hub for food and food-connected ...
In 2019, Ronaldo (Rony) Lec and Myriam Legault moved from Guatemala to Ontario with their two young daughters. All they knew was that they needed to farm. While there is plenty of farmland in the province, gaining access to ...
An innovative start-up company comprised of university doctoral students or full PhDs is applying the age-old adage of "waste not, want not" to the very modern goal of a commercially-viable solution...