Small Town Religion in the Sixties – Part 1
Three generations ago, I was a teenager in the sixties in a rural community which had a mix of Catholics and Protestants. The older...
Dry May made for excellent planting conditions
Numerous non-farming folks have asked me how spring planting and the crops are doing and they ask because they think we have, and had,...
100th Column for Whitewater News
One-hundred is a most popular number, highly self-sufficient and is effective at exploring new ideas and approaches to existing ideas. And it feels comfortable...
Touring Ottawa Valley farms with a serious premier in 2013
I was very skeptical when the newly-elected Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne appointed herself the Minister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario in February...
Born Yesterday
Maybe I was born yesterday or just simply naïve and don’t realize it! There are a few offbeat things in my life that turn...
Memories of father spreading fertilizer by hand
One of my earliest memories of helping my father on the farm was driving the little grey Ford tractor raking hay and putting on...
On Time any Time!
The people of Japan reeled in shock last week upon hearing of an inexcusable occurrence. One of their sacrosanct commuter trains departed from a...
