Environment
Morphine, acid, grass and vanilla bean lows
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Spring 2009Poppy Culture Medical morphine production is “a much more reasonable and practicable alternative to the attempted destruction of the poppy fields – an effort that wouldn’t succeed for long, in…
Boyne Valley Park
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Spring 2009And with spring come the ducks!
Innovative orangutans, Otzi the Iceman and snotty children
Nov 18, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Winter 2008If you want to avoid catching a cold, keep your nose warm, wash your hands a lot and stay away from children.
Wild Minks
Nov 18, 2008 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Winter 2008A mink can swim 30 meters underwater, dive to five meters, curl up with a clear conscience to sleep in a muskrat den after having murdered all the occupants.
Geothermal. Earth Energy.
Sep 15, 2008 | | Back IssuesCLEAN, RENEWABLE AND FREE. Call it what you like, with the support of large grants and rebates for installation, Headwaters residents are pulling heat from the ground.
Soul of the Home
Sep 15, 2008 |In Finland, masonry heaters are known as “heart of the home,” and in Russia it’s “soul of the home,” reflecting the importance they have in people’s lives.
Oil Futures, Goo Goo Clusters and Judgment Day
Sep 15, 2008 | | Autumn 2008 | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | DepartmentsSome 150 new candy bars hit the shelves every year, but 65 per cent of U.S. brands have been around for more than six decades.
Hemlocks
Sep 15, 2008 | | Autumn 2008 | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters SketchbookTiny cones hang down at branch tips, over winter they will open and release seed.
Local Farm, to Local Food, to Local Fuel
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back IssuesThe Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.
Raising Cain
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back IssuesThe provincial growth plans have focussed on the cities but “there’s been nothing about the spaces in between,” he says. “If we want farming to be an integral part of the GTA, the province has to turn its attention to the next step, which is creating a viable protected countryside economy.”
Dancing in the Dark
Jun 20, 2008 |From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.