Environment
Wrens
Both male and female wrens generate a potpourri of chatter – a profusion of messaging rivaling the texting of human teenagers.
Micro – cosmos in your yard
Many new point-and-shoot cameras have a macro focus function, allowing you to take close-up photos of miniature creatures.
Canada’s chefs enter the quarry fray
“We want people to taste the bounty of the land that is threatened by the quarry,” says Stadtländer.
Food for Thought
“He that looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
C.S. Lewis
Caterpillars & Butterflies
Most butterfly caterpillars will mature and form chrysalides within two or three weeks.
Birth of a Protest
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Melancthon Mega Quarry
by the Numbers
This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.
Washing, wages, wax and worms
A review of recent studies suggests many amoebae have sex! Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.
Food for thought
Meaningful Mouthful “‘Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said.
You can’t eat aggregates.
Or drink cement. Or greet your neighbours across a 2,300 acre pit.
Mr Hobo Wally – Melancthon Quarry
“Walk with me, Stop the Quarry” – Mr Hobo Wally – Melancthon Quarry A Song to Save Our Farmland by Hobo Wally



