• 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…

  • 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…