Filling your wellness toolbox
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THE BUSY HARVEST SEASON CAN LEAVE FARMERS FEELING LIKE THERE IS NOTHING LEFT IN THE TANK. But investing in your mental and physical health this winter can help you restore your equilibrium and be better…
Rural living
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Small farm revival
EASTERN AND NORTHERN ONTARIO MENNONITE COMMUNITIES GROW
- IF YOU DROVE AROUND RENFREW COUNTY TODAY or any day stretching back to many decades ago, you’d see many underused or abandoned historic farms, typically 100 acres in size. The farmhouse and buildings may be… -
Remembering the Farmerettes
SUPPORTING THE WAR EFFORT ON THE HOME FRONT
- BASED WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER, AND HISTORIAN, remembers when she first found a small black and white photo while sorting through some of her husband’s belongings after he passed away in 2016. “I came to a tiny… -
Junior Farmers celebrate 80 years
MARCHING ALONG SINCE 1944
- IT HAS BEEN 80 YEARS SINCE YOUNG FARMERS FROM ACROSS THE PROVINCE GATHERED AT QUEEN’S PARK ON APRIL 4, 1944, TO FORM THE JUNIOR FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO (JFAO). Eight decades later, JFAO continues to…
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Keep vigilant
SO EVERYONE COMES HOME SAFE
- WITH GRAIN HARVEST UNDERWAY ACROSS ONTARIO, NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO REMIND FARMERS TO THINK ABOUT SAFETY PRACTICES. Ryan Dick, health and safety consultant at Workplace Safety and Prevention Service (WSPS), and Andreas Jampen,… -
A refugee story
THE CHANGING FACE OF RURAL CANADA
- THE TOWN OF ANTIGONISH, NOVA SCOTIA, HAS A HISTORY THAT IS NOT UNLIKE THAT OF OTHER SMALL TOWNS across Canada. With archaeological evidence of Mi’kmaq people dating back more than 9,000 years, the earliest European… -
The survivors
STRONG SUPPORT HELPS BEAT BACK CANCER
- A CANCER DIAGNOSIS CAN BE A DEVASTATING SETBACK FOR YOUNG, BUSY FARMERS, but with personal grit and support from family, friends, and empathetic members of the agricultural community, they can not only survive but thrive.… -
Three Oaks Cabin
FINDING HOPE AND HEALING
- FARMER MENTAL HEALTH HAS BEEN AT THE TOP OF FARM MEETING AGENDAS in the past few years after a landmark 2015 study and a 2022 follow-up study by epidemiologist Dr. Andria Jones Bitton and associates… -
Legacy Scholarship winners
NINE ONTARIO STUDENTS HONOURED
- THE ONTARIO GRAIN AND OILSEED INDUSTRY employs more than 90,000 people — but finding qualified people to fill those jobs is becoming increasingly difficult. According to a Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council study, the estimated… -
Farming for world hunger
CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK CELEBRATES 40 YEARS
- WORKING TOGETHER TO end global hunger has been the mission driving a national charity for the last four decades. While food security remains a major issue around the world today, there is no doubt that…