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Environment

Wrens

Both male and female wrens generate a potpourri of chatter – a profusion of messaging rivaling the texting of human teenagers.

Aug 30, 2011

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.

Aug 23, 2011

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.

Aug 19, 2011

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

Aug 19, 2011

Caterpillars & Butterflies

Most butterfly caterpillars will mature and form chrysalides within two or three weeks.

Jul 25, 2011

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.

Jun 16, 2011

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.

Jun 16, 2011

Washing, wages, wax and worms

A review of recent studies suggests many amoebae have sex! Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Jun 16, 2011

Luna Moths

If you have seen a luna moth recently in Headwaters please let us know.

Jun 8, 2011

Food for thought

Meaningful Mouthful “‘Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said.

May 14, 2011

You can’t eat aggregates.

Or drink cement. Or greet your neighbours across a 2,300 acre pit.

May 14, 2011

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

May 10, 2011