Ecology
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No-Mow for Monarch Butterflies
Last week was orchids, this week is Milkweed. We’ve been leaving a little stand of Milkweed on the edge of one of our fields and it is a hotspot. We aren’t going to mow this section and let the insects do insect things. The Milkweed emerging from bushy flowering clovers makes for quite a hub… Continue reading
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Nature Comes Developed
We’ve spotted a Yellow Lady Slipper orchid Cypripedium parviflorum in a ditch near the farm. This beautiful flower lies a mere six inches (or 15 centimetres) from where the grass in the ditch is dutifully mowed by the neighbours. I have always found the term “development” as it relates to urban planning or suburban expansion… Continue reading
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Leaf Mulch and the Water Cycle
This past week we planted 800 Peppers (bell and hot) into leaf mulch. Continue reading
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Calculating Future Cost
How much will it cost? We often see things in reductive monetary terms. Either it costs too much and we can’t make a profit, or its a very cheap no-brainer. Where I’m from, one of the easiest places to see this dynamic is with things like road infrastructure. The project will cost $1 billion, the… Continue reading
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Hello, World
Would like to begin this project by stating some goals and aspirations, a sort of mission statement. Every Wednesday, starting today, one short post will be published. I hope to share some knowledge I have, or observations I make via my work, to shine a light on different aspects of the agricultural industry from an… Continue reading
About Graham
Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.
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