With the topic of climate change on the rise, often we hear things like ‘Reducing carbon emissions’, ‘negative carbon’, ‘neutral carbon’, ‘decarbonizing’, ‘reducing your carbon footprint’ and ‘the war on carbon’, but what does it all mean? We hear these terms, but how many of us actually understand what carbon is, or why it is […]

Living on an island within an earthquake zone, amidst the accumulating effects of climate change, I have always known that our food supply could face interruption at any given point. With the pandemic seeing many store shelves bare last year, our communities recognized just how fragile our food security actually is. Being prepared no longer

What if I told you that earthworms were devastating forests all over North America? We have all come to know worms as being extremely beneficial in our gardens by aerating and fertilizing the soil, but there are some varieties of earthworms causing irreparable damage. Over 10,000 years ago, the Ice Age covered the land masses

Becoming turkey farmers and raising what we call ‘tiny dinosaurs’ was something we never imagined that we would ever be doing, not to mention becoming one of the few Canadian farms to be keeping an endangered species alive. The Ridley Bronze Turkey is listed as ‘Critical’ on the Rare Breeds of Canada Conservation List, and

With most of us having a lot more time lately, we have taken to the gardens, some of us for the very first time. You have planted amazing symmetrical rows of veggies, flowers around the walk, or maybe even some fruit trees, only to wake up to slugs or pests chomping away, or the remnants