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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
Douglas G. Pearce

Luna Moths

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

Jun 8, 2011
Don Scallen

Food for thought

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

May 14, 2011
Douglas G. Pearce

You can’t eat aggregates.

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

May 14, 2011
Signe Ball

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
Guest

Fishers have been Lured South

Fishers are said to attack porcupines in a particularly grisly manner.

May 3, 2011
Don Scallen

Let the sun shine in

Here at our farm we stare transfixed at the meter on our newly installed solar panel as it efficiently, quietly and greenly produces kilowatt-hour after kilowatt-hour.

Mar 24, 2011
Phyllis Robinson

Catching a few rays

While debate rages about the pros and cons of corporate wind farming, solar power production has largely flown under the radar.

Mar 24, 2011
Jeff Rollings

Inglewood Light and Power

It’s an elegant old lady, decked out in a fancy hat. Inglewood’s Riverdale Woolen Mill – these days perhaps better known as the Riverdale Fitness Centre – has seen a lot of different uses since Thomas Corbett first established a business on the site along the banks of the Credit River in 1841.

Mar 24, 2011
Jeff Rollings

Cats, cannabis, kilts and kori bustards

Highland Security The fashion of wearing nothing beneath a kilt has been condemned by the Scottish Tartans Authority, which has called the practice “childish and unhygienic,” The Times of London…

Mar 24, 2011
Douglas G. Pearce

Merlins

Merlins in Caledon would have been almost unthinkable 25 years ago. At that time, except on migration, Merlins seldom strayed south of the lakes and forests of the Canadian Shield.

Mar 14, 2011
Don Scallen

Great Horned Owls

Great horned owls along with other members of the owl tribe are gifted with adaptive traits beyond their acute senses.

Feb 14, 2011
Don Scallen