I’d Tap That: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Maple Syrup
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Mon, 22/02/10 – 1:59 | No Comment

It’s mid-February and the only thing that keeps a Canadian like me from opening a vein this time of year is the thought of thawing snow, plants beginning to grow, song birds returning and budding leaves on the trees. Even before we can start seed in the greenhouse or prepare the soil for Spring planting out at the farm, we can enjoy the first glorious days of relative warmth and participate in a local culinary tradition that predates European settlement of this harsh, cold landscape. All ‘syrup-suckers’, as Stephen Colbert affectionately refers to us Canadians, really should give the process of making Maple syrup a try at least once. When the Enns family offered up for tapping their 25 acres of virgin sugar bush in New Hamburg, Ontario that is exactly what I intended to do for the very first time.

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Weeding with Fire
Saturday, 10 Jul, 2010 – 12:51 | No Comment
Weeding with Fire

Major weeding labour can be avoided if you torch newly germinated weeds before they get established. When we shot this video carrots had been seeded earlier in the week and some much needed …

I’d Tap That: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Maple Syrup
Monday, 22 Feb, 2010 – 1:59 | No Comment
I’d Tap That: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Maple Syrup

It’s mid-February and the only thing that keeps a Canadian like me from opening a vein this time of year is the thought of thawing snow, plants beginning to grow, song birds returning and budding leaves on the trees. Even before we can start seed in the greenhouse or prepare the soil for Spring planting out at the farm, we can enjoy the first glorious days of relative warmth and participate in a local culinary tradition that predates European settlement of this harsh, cold landscape. All ‘syrup-suckers’, as Stephen Colbert affectionately refers to us Canadians, really should give the process of making Maple syrup a try at least once. When the Enns family offered up for tapping their 25 acres of virgin sugar bush in New Hamburg, Ontario that is exactly what I intended to do for the very first time.

Biodynamic Agriculture: A First Impression
Sunday, 31 Jan, 2010 – 2:14 | No Comment
Biodynamic Agriculture: A First Impression

I attended the Guelph Organic Conference today expecting nothing more than to be introduced to the people and ideas shaping the practice of organic farming in southwestern Ontario. Keep an open mind, I said to …

A Christmas Pig’s Tale
Wednesday, 13 Jan, 2010 – 17:24 | No Comment
A Christmas Pig’s Tale

Twenty minutes outside of Stratford and enroute to Christmas family fun in the Ottawa valley is Church Hill Farm, a small family run organic livestock farm where beef, pork, lamb and poultry heritage breeds are …

Thursday, 7 May, 2009 – 3:52 | No Comment

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