Anthony Pasto considers himself just a sales and marketing guy. In a former life Pasto ran a ball hockey league with a 100 staff members. These days his colleagues, almost all female, number in the millions - working away in 100 hives scattered across Southern...
Environment
The Last Colour Carbon Transfer Printer in Canada
John Bladen Bentley isn't in a hurry. This is a man who spends five days making a single photographic print. A man who has spent 15 years of his life perfecting a form of colour printing from the 19th century. Who measures chemicals to the microgram and can see days...
New Ways to Finance Farming
This is just a sample of the great stories coming in our March Gardening Digest. It’s a challenge that has scared off many an aspiring farmer: How can a person embark on a career in food production without solid financial backing? Well, it turns out that some...
Honey? We Shrink the Nonsense
Does Honey have to have bee pollen?
Straw Bale Comes In From The Country
When most people think of straw-bale construction these days, they visualize soft lines in a distinctly rural setting. They certainly aren’t thinking of a modern suburban home. “Most of our straw-bale homes are built as isolated, rural applications,” says Ben Polley,...
Alpaca Ontario at the Royal Winter Fair
Alpacas are gentle animal with hair that makes wool on par with cashmere.
Remembering Martha – the Last Passenger Pigeon
Martha died at the ripe old age of 29, the last in a very long string of Passenger Pigeons. She was the namesake of Martha Washington – President George Washington’s wife – who herself had suffered an earlier extinction incident in the spring of 1802.
The Inner Bigness of Tiny Homes
Kayla Feenstra admits that the prospect of downsizing from a 2 000 square foot home into a tiny home was no easy task. It took some time, distilling a lifetime’s worth of possessions into the bare essentials. “I was terrified about downsizing!! I lived in 2000 square...
What’s Killing Our Country Bees?
Though not native to North America, the diminutive honeybee has become an important aspect of this continent’s agriculture and biodiversity. And now this species is facing some serious threats. Apis mellifera is also known as the western honeybee and European...
Harrowsmith Garden Digest Success Story
The Harrowsmith brand has been enthusiastically embraced by readers across Canada.
Just Like Grandma Used to Grow
Heritage seeds get a helping hand from the dedicated gardeners at SODC.
ISON: The Exasperating Comet
We asked Robert Dick, our Astronomy Editor, for his take on Comet ISON, the bright light in the sky which seems to be exasperating night-sky watchers and failing to become “The Christmas Comet” / “Comet of the Century” that it was supposed to be.
Proceed with Caution before you Paint
How safe are the paints we use on our walls?
It’s tiller time!
Rototillers are not a sexy piece of equipment. But for about two hours a year there’s nothing better for sod-busting, earth churning goodness.
Boreal Forest Facts
Spreading over continents and covering many countries including Canada, the Boreal forest plays a significant role in the planet’s biodiversity and its climate.