Category: General

  • The Ontario Rural Skills Network finds a new home at Mount Wolfe Farm: Poppa’s Workshop. Just needs a tidy.

    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…

  • The Traditional Farm Hedgerow Your Undiscovered Ally

    Happy New Year! I hope your festive season was restful and rejuvenating! I have written an article on hedgerows and hedgelaying for Small Farm Canada Magazine which is aimed at the those with little knowledge of both. The article is designed to tie in with my work at the University of Waterloo on the SSHRC-funded…

  • Kinship (a Poem)

    Kinship Lima Cat sits at the edge of the kitchen window, Tail a-swishing, Muscles twitching.   Hunger brings the be-wintered Chickadees To the feeder, Forays from the surrounding firs and pines.   A black-capped bird alights on window ledge Strewn with sunflower seeds.   Back arched, Lima tenses; Her eyes fixed and focused, Her paw…

  • Learning by Doing – Our Thinking Hands

    Learning by Doing – Our Thinking Hands

    Originally posted on Home Edgeucated: (With thanks to our great friend, artist and T’ai Chi teacher Caroline Ross) Since the summer, the children and I have continued to learn about evolution and prehistory of humankind. We have spent a lot of time discovering how hand tools were made and how they were developed and refined…

  • Envisioning a New Canadian Hedgerow

    Yesterday I continued with the work of planting up the hedgerow at Mount Wolfe Farm that we had begun at the Fall Farm Fest when we launched the Hedgerow Rite (blog on that coming soon!) Its great to spend some time with these plants, most of which are new to me at least at the…