Category: General

  • TRCAmazing! Another New Hedge Planting at Mount Wolfe Farm!

    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…

  • ORSN Spoon Carving Workshop #1

    Last weekend on a blustery day in September we held the first workshop of the newly formed Ontario Rural Skills Network (ORSN). Check out the website and the blog post here Ontario Rural Skills Network Spoon Carving Workshop #1 ORSN is part of the SSHRC-funded Hedgelaying in Ontario’s Landscape project at the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable…

  • 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…

  • Life Amongst The Lovage

    Loving this iNaturalist App. Three of the many insects buzzing around the lovage outside the tent this morning, a bald faced hornet Dolichovespula maculata, a gloriously shiny sweat bee Augochloropsis metallica and a hummingbird clearwing Hemaris thysbe who wouldn’t stay still long enough for a good photo. All identified through the App. We now have…

  • 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…