Environment

As habitats shrink, these three animals have become ‘extirpated herptiles’ — reptiles and amphibians that are now regionally extinct in Ontario.

Two Headwaters residents are working with Indigenous people on innovative programs to enhance food security in the Far North.

How to prep your home, car – and psyche – for winter storm season and its inevitable hydro outages.

With UV flashlight in hand, strolling in the night-shrouded escarpment woods reveals fantastic caterpillars, some of which glow under a black light.

A look back on how we’ve covered the pleasures and concerns of country life over the last three decades.

The Ford government’s dissolution of Peel and incursion into the Greenbelt pose existential threats to Caledon as we know it.

You may not know some of these magnificent species but they are our precious, fragile neighbours that cannot survive in a subdivision.

The latest thinking in garden and lawn cleanup is all about doing a little less – which in turn does a lot more for pollinators, birds and your soil.

The sweet nectar of liatris ligulistylis is renowned for its ability to lure monarch butterflies to gardens.

Summer holidays might be halfway over, but the bees are still having a field day thanks to these flowering pollinator plants

Plants can be killers too, and in Headwaters we have at least three varieties of carnivorous plants that consume small animals.

On our 30th anniversary, we dig into our archives to reflect on the recurring themes of aggregates and agriculture.