Category: Column
Trail Talk: Some impressive autumn sights
Cover crops of oats and sunflowers make for some beautiful fields in Huron County
Trail Talk: Enjoying the colours of autumn
Midweek Hikers enjoy a stop by the pond near Benmiller Inn
Trail Talk: New trail closure this season
Most sections of the Maitland Trail will be closed later in October for turkey hunting
Denard: More pesky farmhouse guests make themselves at home
The process of evicting the ladybugs turned up another species – a protected one
Mahon: They aren’t making any more of it, are they?
The current reality for farmland buying bears some small resemblance to small-town publishing a few decades back
U.S. farm groups talk policy as politicians pay it little heed
For U.S. agriculture, the current presidential election campaign has yielded little significant news, let alone farm policy proposals. That doesn’t mean U.S. farmers lack policy issues to ponder. For one thing, the dysfunction of Congress in recent years has left in limbo the reoccurring federal legislation that governs much about U.S. farm policy. The five-year […]
Trail Talk: The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s four-day Bioblitz
The federation encouraged participants to record sightings of insects
Trail Talk: A summer of butterflies
A streak of 83 consecutive days of butterfly sightings ends as summer draws to a close
Mahon: What we build up so lovingly with our hands
I was told several years ago about this old German saying, although I can’t find any modern reference to it.
Trail Talk: A week on the trails
I joined the Tuesday Trompers on Sept. 3 at Sheppardton Tract. Although I have not hiked there often, this was the first time I did not see any water (we did not go all the way to Nile Road). There was a nice group of cardinal flowers by the side of the trail. On our […]