SUURD FAMILY RECOGNIZED AS FARM INNOVATORS
For this edition our farming column we will examine the tools and techniques the Suurd family uses and promotes in order to increase the productivity and profitability of crop farming in Ontario. Last month, the Suurd family of Cavan was recognized for Leadership in Agriculture at the Peterborough County Recognition awards in Norwood. Next…
Warren Craft lives up to his lablel, “Warren in Motion”
For more than twenty years, Camp Kawartha’s annual “Green-In-Motion” fundraiser has raised money for the camp’s sponsorship fund. As a result, many deserving children have been given the opportunity to experience the thrill of summer camp. This year, in recognition of the $102,000 twenty-year total singlehandedly raised by Warren Craft, the event has fittingly…
From Winter to Summer!
Of course we were all longing for the spring-that-didn’t-seem-to-want-to-get-started to proceed, but now it seems to have gone straight to summer (at least so it seems right now as I write–next week may be another story!). I am lucky to have a pair of House Wrens who have nested the last two years in…
Catching up with Sam Riches
Do you ever wonder what happened to someone you used to run into all the time but has moved on? I mean the teenager who drove the Zamboni, who helped at Sparks, who worked at the Pharmacy, or who you saw in the former Bulk Food store buying gummi worms for lunch. Many young…
Sam Riches – On the Quest
If you go by road miles, Whitehorse, Yukon is about 3,000 of them from Millbrook. Once you’re here, it feels even further. You can leave in any direction you want, but it’ll be hours before you reach the next town. That’s in the summer. In the winter, everything stops; frozen shut. The tundra that…
Injured turtle returned to creek after year-long rehab
Just over one year ago, Mitchell, then age 8, discovered an injured snapping turtle at the bottom of his back yard by Baxter Creek. It was early spring. Mitchell checked the following day and the turtle was still in the same place. He wasn’t looking very healthy and Mitchell reported his findings to…