Environment

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

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

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

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

“Walk with me, Stop the Quarry” – Mr Hobo Wally – Melancthon Quarry A Song to Save Our Farmland by Hobo Wally

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

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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