Category: 2020
Make Hay While the Sun Shines
There’s science behind that expression, and now the pressure is on –it’s time to cut hay. While this is always a stressful time for local farmers, this year it has been more challenging than…
June- a Month of Richness in Nature
Well, if I have trouble narrowing down what I want to write about every month so it will fit the column, you can imagine the anguish I am experiencing for June! June is such…
Ben Knechtel- Cavan’s Award-winning Videographer
As a boy growing up along the border of Cavan and Bethany, Ben Knechtel was often seen with a video camera in hand. He began using his grandfather’s old video camera recording the antics…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Heeringas inherit a love of farming
Don and John Heeringa grew up on Larmer Line operating a dairy farm begun by their parents Karl and Ina – hence the name Karlina Farm. Karl and Ina arrived in Canada from Holland…