Ontario Farmer

Located Between New Liskeard And Englehart, Ontario 159 Acres Farm In Temiskaming District.

Now, to keep those pesky morning glory vines from taking over! 2. This year, we have a couple of friends gardening alongside us, and that's really awesome—particularly because I'm a new mom and live 30 minutes from town, so the whole getting out thing...

(See what I mean about the title?) Intended as a guide for sourcing, butchering and preparing beef, pork, lamb, poultry and rabbit, plus all of their various offal cuts and bones, The Meat Hook Meat Book sets itself apart from other butchering guides...

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The reasons for hiring an apprentice are many: Perhaps this farmer doesn't have the money to pay for an employee quite yet, or is already paying one and can't afford another. Asking the apprentice not to hang out on your porch or in your living room mid-season...

“We'll be fine.” Then we learned my dad was in the emergency room with a mysterious malady. I'd taken to feeding the cows and the pigs; my wife delivered rations to the broiler chickens and layer hens.

“It's really about exposing them to everything,” Tracy says. While students may focus on a specific track, their course work encourages constant collaboration with peers in other fields.

I couldn't invent a more accurate description of who I was: impatient to rise, impatient to run my own farm, impatient to be called “farmer.” Elenarts/iStock/Thinkstock There's a palpable eagerness among our youth to become the chef or become the...

Even though over half of our farm is woodlands, one of our major chores is mowing, and I hopped on the seat of our lawn tractor for the first time this week. All the while, we're getting our garden ready for transplants , setting up effective fencing...

Soon the season will pick up, and we'll be caught up in mowing chores, tending our large garden, and prepping and preserving all the food that grows there. Coyotes chimed in with their howls to lend texture to this lovely melody, while bees buzzed around,...

A basic henhouse has a roost, a floor and a couple of nest boxes. I just lift the litter board and rake the composted stuff into the wheelbarrow … all without bending over . Well, I have a new saying: “If you want something done efficiently , get...

They need opportunities to do internships to learn how to grow the food they want to produce. Recognized widely for his work, Kirschenmann has written extensively about ethics and agriculture, with articles published in several books and professional...

Through the Young, Beginning and Small Farmer and Rancher Program , Ag New Mexico helps new farmers start their first agricultural operation with financing, education and training.

I also want to expand our little kitchen garden to include our favorite teas, culinary herbs and vegetables. Real bad.) But as you can see, I got my mowing fix this weekend, as we christened our new-to-us lawn tractor.

Hang the laundry out to dry more often. Switch over to fluorescent light bulbs. Reduce, reuse, recycle – more! Grow more of our own food organically. Many of us here don't have air-conditioning in our homes, and even if we did, my livestock wouldn't...

Plan to profit. Start a Facebook page, which is a simple and free way to connect with customers. Farming can be challenging, and it's easy to lose sight of the reasons you got into it in the first place.

And admittedly, our piles of stuff are doing us no good at this point. And we're organizing. It seems like every other day we get not only a spring shower but a downpour. And we're sweeping.

But the old farm also had rich, brown dirt and a beautiful pond, deep and spring-fed, about an acre in size. Soon, using a cane pole, I also caught fish for the dinner table. And, in truth, the pests have also given us memories, which make the experience...

“When looking to buy land, make total absolution there aren't deed restrictions for that property that will prevent you from your goals. Ask veterinary advice, read all the related books you can get your hands on, go to swap meets and auction sales.

According to findings by the National Cancer Institute, patients whose cancer is diagnosed in the localized stage have a five-year survival rate of 98 percent. She attributes this poor access in part to the unavailability of physicians, especially primary...

I'd love to here feedback from anyone who has experienced problems in their home. The next trail I'll sniff out (quite literally) is the septic system. Plus, the length of time that the odor has been around, the smell should have been long gone if that...

It's a lot of looking at weather forecasts and gathering supplies and second-guessing whether you're ready or have what it takes to make your visions come alive. It requires a sensitivity to your surroundings and being in tune with the land.

This is true, but those fisheries are part of the problem. The world will be hotter. By that math we could be out as much as 15 million acres of arable farmland by 2050. Change Is A Comin' That isn't to say that this is necessarily a bleak future.

It required a rest and a rise of the dough, with 2½ hours of “folding” sandwiched in between. (When making crackers, I might as well make a whole bunch, lest they get eaten in one sitting.) Rachael Dupree In the meantime, when I'm not enjoying the...

The first few times I had to get near the hives to plant more bee-friendly flowers or to beef up the riprap retaining wall, it was pretty nerve-wracking, but I reminded myself about the oregano bees and just moved slowly, talked quietly, and didn't look...

You can make yourself nuts getting super-specific with fertilizer applications, and I am sure that's where I will end up: rambling on to anyone who will listen about how I made my own fish emulsion in the bathroom sink and wandering about with bits of...

Not too long after the story I started this piece with, a separate customer asked that same vendor the very same question, “Are these organic?” Sensing something was amiss in the “Well, we're not certified” answer, the customer pressed further...