A photographer staged these amazing photographs at cheese factories in Hastings County around 1910. He must have got there around 6 a.m. when the farmers delivered their milk. The photographs are in the Dairy Buildling at Farmtown Park, home of the agmuseum in Stirling, Ontario. The photographs show us how realistic the cheese factory display is at the agmuseum.
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The song is sung by Roger McGuinn of Folkden Songs.
Sabrina Warner keeps having the same nightmare: a huge wave rearing up out of the water and crashing over her home, forcing her to swim for her life with her toddler son.
"I dream about the water coming in," she said. The landscape in winter on the Bering Sea coast seems peaceful, the tidal wave of Warner's nightmare trapped by snow and several feet of ice. But the calm is deceptive. Spring break-up will soon restore the Ninglick River to its full violent force.
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Terry Sprague of Nature Stuff led a tour of Moira Ridge Farms, Roslin, home of Cliff and Heather Maclean on May 19. You can see Terry Sprague and Barry Kant of Brighton's photos of this unique property.
Windsor, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River.
The expansion of oil-sands operations and various pipeline proposals to get bitumen to market have incraseingly been topics of conversation in Canada, from debates in the House of Commons to discussions around the dinner table. Much of the discussion has focused around tangible things that we can see – devastation of the Alberta landscape from surface mining operations, pollution of downstream rivers, the threat of pipeline spills, and the danger of accidents involving supertankers along the British Columbia coast.
In connection with the Tourism Awareness Week in Hastings County, we are opening the Green Donkey Tea Room this Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 16, 17 & 18th between 10 a.m and 4 p.m. We will be serving Tea and Scones only (no lunches).We will also have the Black River Farm preserves for sale. Fresh rhubarb and maybe asparagus (Sunday and Monday nights really hurt it). Hopefully we will have new growth. We also have some potted plants - rhubarb; chives and iris for sale.A reminder that we still have some places available on the Father's Day Weekend. Reservations are required for this event.
Churchman’s rural masterplan for developer Archihaus has been submitted for planning in Herefordshire. The scheme is the UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme in a rural setting and constitutes the first stage in realising an ambitious vision to transform both the quality and the sustainability of developer housing in the UK.
Guelph - Be creative, uncover social capital, protect farmland and support local agriculture. These tips were identified by agricultural and rural leaders at the 2013 Farmland Forum as key elements to building resilience to climate change and rising energy prices in rural Ontario.
Heir to throne intervenes on issue dividing coalition, making outspoken criticism of attempts to tackle global warming
Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate changesceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is assuming a growing number of the duties of what is supposed to be an apolitical monarchy.
