Category: Environment
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The Ontario Rural Skills Network finds a new home at Mount Wolfe Farm: Poppa’s Workshop. Just needs a tidy.
A major frustration to putting on any outdoor workshops this time of year is the inclemency of the weather. The site where we held our first spoon-carving workshop in September last year is now under a thin blanket of snow (which is thickening even as i write!) and the temperature with wind chill is -4…
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TRCAmazing! Another New Hedge Planting at Mount Wolfe Farm!
Its Autumn! Its Fall! Its Hedge-Time! I love this time of year as the leaves lose their chlorophyll pigment and the anthocyanins and carotenoids reveal a harvest of ochre, carnelian, caramel, crimson, and ruby. Perhaps its my conservation background that makes me feel its a time to tinker, or maybe its just a revealed…
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Mount Wolfe Environmental Farm Plan complete
Just back from sending off the Mount Wolfe Farm Environmental Farm Plan for review, which I have been helping Farm Manager Sarah and her aunt Debbe Crandall complete as part of my work for the University of Waterloo Hedgelaying in Ontario’s Landscape Project 2018. The EFP is a voluntary programme driven by the farming community…
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Dear mouse-please leave the tomatoes alone
I’ve been in Canada a month now spending much of my time exploring new pathways around hedgerows and traditional skills so thought it was about time I got back to some field ecology. Sarah has a problem in the upper field at Mount Wolfe Farm where the young tomato plants are being eaten, so I…
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#30DaysWild Welcome To Ontario
In wildness is the preservation of the world- Henry David Thoreau, in ‘Walking’ (1862) Its Sunday June 3rd and back in the UK my colleagues at Surrey Wildlife Trust have already been busy filling social media with their #30dayswild posts to encourage their friends, family and the public to take time each day through June…
James T Jones 