Environment
Dancing in the Dark
Jun 20, 2008 |From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.
Capitalists, Millionaires and Worldly Pleasures
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Summer 2008A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.
Grasses
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Summer 2008Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.
Wetland Restoration? Leave it to Beaver
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Spring 2008If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.
Field of Schemes
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesThere’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?
Enough of Zoomburb
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesWhen I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…
Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Spring 2008Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…
Eastern Meadowlark
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Spring 2008Eastern Meadowlarks decline 24% in 20 years.
Hares
Nov 15, 2007 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Winter 2007In the spring breeding season hares indulge in boxing matches.
Tarantula hawks, beneficial beavers and the mollusk option
Nov 15, 2007 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Winter 2007Human Burnout “The trends in Vital Signs 2007-2008 make it overwhelmingly clear that while Earth itself is almost certainly not dying, many of the planet’s ecological systems are. And the…
The Menu is the Message
Jun 21, 2007 | | Back IssuesFeast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.