Tim Shuff

With a proposal to flatten his farm fields, a Mono farmer stepped squarely into the centre an environmental hornets’ nest.

Ontario launched the Greenbelt Plan’s 10-year review, which is taking place concurrently with reviews of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan & Places to Grow.

With its purchase of the mega quarry lands, a Canadian investment firm gained control of one of the biggest single blocks of prime farmland in Ontario. Will the new landlord be better than the old?

Local Hero: Carl Cosack fought to save our land from quarry development.

With the mega quarry shelved, opponents say they’ll keep fighting until they get permanent protection for farmland in Ontario.

A spring freeze that wiped out 88 per cent of Ontario’s apple crop is only the latest in a string of challenges pressuring local growers to squeeze more value out of the humble apple.

Cody Gillies aims to run the Bruce Trail in record time – and raise money for sick kids at Headwaters Health Care Centre!

Luxury property developer Shane Baghai extends his ambitions – and his taste for excellence – to farming.

Imagine, milk with terroir. Two local Ontario dairy farms are about to revolutionize the way we think about that most basic of foods.

Can a green gravel certification solve the controversies over aggregate in Ontario? It had better, because it may be the only way out of our current mess.

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

The Highland Companies, a U.S.-based investment syndicate, has assembled 9,500 acres, most of it in Melancthon, but many people in the community, led by NDACT, worry about the future of their farmland and water resources.

Because I love the outdoors, I always thought fishing would be the perfect sport for me.

The culinary arts program at ODSS has found a way to kids’ hearts and minds through their stomachs.

The Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.

Feast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.

Purchasing Power! Bullfrog Power’s green electricity is hot in Headwaters, but is it worth the premium price?