4:00pm, April 28, 2013 | Gores Landing looking west | Rice Lake, Ontario Canada
I used my Samsung Galaxy S3 device to shoot this.
Rice Lake, Ontario – Spring
Gores Landing on Rice Lake. Taken on a beautiful spring day in April. A striking difference from when I was here a month ago and the lake was covered in ice. The time I saw the otter, related post: Rice Lake Otter
April 16, 2013
Paddling across lilly filled flat water lakes, portaging, hiking, occupying Algonquin with our little yellow canoe. Wildlife sightings! A Great Gray Owl, Moose; mother and calf, Beaver, Blue Heron, Common Loon, a wolf howls…
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Photos on WordPress: Algonquin Canoe Trip 2010
Photo and Video Source: John Zeus, taken on a Canon Sure Shot
Music Source: Dr. Draw, Rodrigo
March 19, 2013
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3:30 pm EDT – March 16, 2013 | Gores Landing, Rice Lake Ontario, Canada | -7C
Rice Lake is a lake located in south-eastern Ontario. The lake is 32 km long and 5 km wide. It’s fairly shallow and was named for the wild rice which grew in it and was harvested by the First Nations people of the area.
Photos and Video taken on my Samsung Galaxy S3
Music Source: The Doors – Soul Kitchen
February 28, 2013
Black Minorcas in their breeding shelter. Murray’s Farm, Cambridge Ontario. Recorded with my Samsung Galaxy S3 device.
One of my favourite breeds, the Minorca is a breed of chicken originating in Spain. They have red faces, huge red wattles and large red combs. Their earlobes are large and white. They lay large white eggs.
Pastured eggs are the rage of the food world right now, mostly because of flavour. A heritage chicken takes three times as long to mature and start laying eggs regularly as its factory equivalent. What it lacks in speed, it makes up for in taste. A textbook example of slow/real food.
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January 3, 2013
Frozen yet beautiful the wonder of winter grips the land.
I left the sullen mood of the city behind to spend the last days of the year on the farm. After the winter solstice you feel the sun’s life energy slowly returning as the days begin to grow longer.
Neighbouring Barn – Southwestern Ontario
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Brown Swiss – Murray’s Farm
Nasty Pants – He’s an Old English Red Cap
Zhor – Jersey Calf
November 14, 2012
Back on the farm the miracle of autumn is spectacular…The crisp cold air, exploding colours everywhere, the harvesting of our own food, the playfulness of the animals and the smell of the soil underfoot.
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. – Wendell Berry
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ― Masanobu Fukuoka
I prefer to leave the city and spend time on this farm whenever we can. Doing chores from morning to night, experiencing a true heritage farm lifestyle. As I wrote in one of my previous posts “farm life is hard work yet there’s something essential about growing your own food. Getting back into rhythm with the earth and animals that sustain you.”
Why do I love spending time on a farm? I love to watch and nurture the crops & plants. I love to live in the presence of the animals. I love working outdoors. I love watching the weather. I love the independence that farm life provides.
Food performance surveys show that a majority of food shoppers are willing to pay more for food grown locally on small family farms. Follow that up with consumer buying habits and we will change the tradition of farming in North America.
October 10, 2012
1:00pm EDT, Monday October 08, 2012. Cambridge, Ontario
Related post: The Heritage Farm & Sustainable Living
September 29, 2012
Experiencing the life of a farmer at my friend’s heritage farm. Sustainable living and ethical farming is hard work. Yet there’s something essential about growing your own food. Getting back into rhythm with the earth and animals that sustain you.
Adopt food sustainability as a lifestyle. Grow your own urban vegetable garden. Eat whole, raw and natural foods. Reduce your consumption of fast and overly processed foods. It you’re on a plant and animal diet source out free range, pasture raised/grain fed meats from your local farmers.
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In many communities food resources go furthest when people produce their own food near to where it is consumed.Taking it globally, hunger-relief organizations provide assistance not in the form of cans of food, but in technology, education and programs that teach sustainable farming.
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April 28, 2013
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