Culinary Arts Loaf of homemade white bread 1. Marybelle Dittmer 2. Marilyn Whaley 3. Beth Annett…
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Listowel 4-H Dairy Club hosts fundraising BBQ
Pictured serving up a barbecue lunch at the Listowel Peavey Mart on Aug. 20 is Listowel Fair Ambassador Hayleigh Royce with her fellow 4-H members Natalie Robinson and Addison Barclay. The Listowel 4-H Dairy Calf Club raised $266.22 from the barbecue last Saturday. The club graciously appreciated t
IN PHOTOS: 2022 Teeswater Fair
The 2022 Teeswater Fair was held last weekend.
IN PHOTOS: 2022 Huron County Plowing Match
The 2022 Huron County Plowing Match was hosted by Brian and Annette MacKenzie at their St. Helen’s Line farm just outside of Lucknow, Aug. 18-19.
30th anniversary of Wingham Ecological Park
Phil Beard and Chris Hart, original members of the Wingham Ecological Park Committee, spoke at an open house to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the park’s completion, hosted at the Alice Munro Public Library in Wingham on Aug. 20. A second anniversary celebration – a community walk – will take pla
Busy month for South Bruce Dairy Club
The past couple of weeks have been busy for the South Bruce Dairy Club, with the Lucknow Dairy 4-H Invitational on Aug. 1 and the final barn tour on Aug. 10.
Heritage Farm and Steam Show celebrates agricultural heritage in style
The Bruce County Heritage Association hosted its 27th Heritage Farm and Steam Show on the weekend – three full days of parades, auctions, musical entertainment, equipment demonstrations, food and all sorts of displays.
Brockton resolution calls on feds to ‘pause’ plans to reduce fertilizer use
As stated in the motion brought before Brockton council by Mayor Chris Peabody at the Aug. 23 meeting, cash crops are an extremely important part of the agricultural industry in Bruce County.
Smiles and sodbusting
The Huron County Sodbusters 4-H Club met at Monoway Farms on Aug. 9 under ideal conditions for plowing. The club meets during the summer months to learn more about the art of plowing, and many members have gone on to perform quite well at competitions. Andrew Fear smiles for the camera while maintai
Bruce County Federation of Agriculture cancels research project into DGR
In a letter to South Bruce council on Aug. 9, the Bruce County Federation of Agriculture (BCFA) informed the municipality that they will no longer be looking into researching the potential impacts of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) proposed deep geological repository (DGR) to host
Local ambassadors prepare for prestigious CNE competition
It has been three long years since the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) has been able to conduct its province-wide Ambassador of the Fairs competition. It’s also meant three years of representation for most regional fair ambassadors, whose reigns were extended with the arrival of the pandemic in e
2022 Listowel Agricultural Fair, Homecraft Division results
Plants and Cut Flowers Shamrock Clara Bauman Becky Smith Marlene McQuinn African Violet, single…
2022 Listowel Agricultural Fair, Homecraft Division results
Photography Past Listowel Fair Memory Katie Wilting Cheryl Coghlin Kelly Battams-Trussler New Life…
Wingham Ecological Park to celebrate 30th anniversary with open house on Aug. 20
Although the Wingham Ecological Park is celebrating 30 years since its establishment, the beginning of this revolutionary project began many years before.
OFA VIEWPOINT: Exploring impacts of vet shortage in rural and remote communities across Ontario
Rural and remote communities in Ontario are experiencing a shortage of veterinary access. What does this look like? It looks like waiting four hours or more for a veterinarian to come out to your farm – if they can come at all. It looks like being forced to euthanize livestock to uphold animal welfa
