Environment
Agriculture Innovation Is Key to Reducing Poverty, Stabilizing Climate
Jan 25, 2012 | | BlogsAn incisive account of the global food crisis—and how it can be solved.
Mega Quarry
Jan 14, 2012 | | Web ExtrasProtect Ontario’s land and drinking water, stop the Melancthon mega quarry. View Adrienne Arsenault’s report from CBC’s The National.
Cardinals
Jan 3, 2012 | | Notes from the WildCardinals appear at feeders most frequently at dusk and dawn. Perhaps during the twilight hours they are less visible to predators.
Cedar Waxwings
Dec 12, 2011 | | Notes from the WildA lovely shrub that waxwings find irresistible in late fall and early winter is a native holly called “winterberry”.
Foul-Weather Friends
Nov 21, 2011 |Birds are drawn to feeders like Saturday morning coffee drinkers to Tim Hortons. The presence of birds in the winter landscape is life-affirming.
Motor cars, canines and capitalism
Nov 21, 2011 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Winter 2011In a move reminiscent of the infamous family-planning measures introduced in 1976, residents of Shanghai are only allowed one dog per household.
Norway Maples
Nov 17, 2011 | | Blogs | Notes from the WildOur rural roads and historic schoolhouses may have ended up as dull as suburbia in the fall.
Gifts of Canadian Nature
Nov 8, 2011 | | Web ExtrasConsider giving a holiday gift as vast and beautiful as our Canadian wilderness – beautifully packaged and small enough to fit under a tree!
Exotic Species aka Mantis and Honeybee
Oct 22, 2011 | | Notes from the WildWhat has our impact been on native North American wildlife? I think we know the answer to that.
Green Gravel
Sep 9, 2011 | | Back IssuesCan 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.
Meetings with Remarkable Trees
Sep 9, 2011 |We revel in their beauty, relax in their shade and are calmed by the soothing sound of their leaves soughing in the wind.
Worms in the Woods
Sep 9, 2011 |Long considered the best friends of gardeners, earthworms are proving to be formidable enemies of the forest.