Youth horticulture club harvests bounty from food garden in Ripley

Youth horticulture club harvests bounty from food garden in Ripley
The Lucknow Sentinel
On a beautiful sunny August Saturday, the For Our Youth (FOY) horticulture club met at the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG) to tour the gardens, sample different food grown there, and harvest the vegetables we had planted in the spring. Introductions were made with our host Olivia, the BBFG garden
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Huron Bruce Nature launches new season with outdoor social

Huron Bruce Nature launches new season with outdoor social
The Lucknow Sentinel
The clouds on the horizon were dark and the wind off the lake brisk, but the rain held off just long enough on Sept. 6 for 30 members of Huron Bruce Nature (HBN) to enjoy their corn roast and potluck supper; the club’s traditional welcome to a new season. The
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Laser weeding is taking place around the world

Laser weeding is taking place around the world
The Lucknow Sentinel
In addition to farmers using them in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, they are zapping weeds in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand
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Fall fair season kicking off in Kincardine, Huron-Kinloss

Fall fair season kicking off in Kincardine, Huron-Kinloss
The Lucknow Sentinel
As the summer season comes to an end, fall fairs are starting to pop up around the region. The Kincardine Agricultural Society is hosting its 174th fall fair at Connaught Park on Labour Day weekend. Themed “Fields, Flannels, and Friends,” admission to the event is $5 per person with children
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Central Ontario region suffers the driest year in 50

Central Ontario region suffers the driest year in 50
The Lucknow Sentinel
Kawartha Lakes, through Peterborough, Northumberland and Prince Edward County has received 90 per cent less than normal rain
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Central Ontario region suffers the driest year in 50

The Lucknow Sentinel

Kawartha Lakes, through Peterborough, Northumberland and Prince Edward County has received 90 per cent less than normal rain

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Cold spring cuts you-pick strawberry season short at Heeman’s

The London Free Press
Heeman's popular pick-your-own program has been nixed for the season mere days after having started.
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Super Pull returning to Lucknow’s Graceland on Father’s Day weekend

The Lucknow Sentinel

The Dungannon Super Pull and Demo Derby is back for another year with organizers promising the biggest and best event yet. “Pullers from the Southwestern Ontario Tractor Pullers Association and the Ontario Truck and Tractor Pullers Association will be putting on an amazing show,” commented Nicole Hardy, Dungannon Super Pull committee member, on June 4. […]

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Farm couple’s donation adds a wing to Montreal Aviation Museum

The Lucknow Sentinel

The museum, run by 40 volunteers, is located in the old stone dairy cattle barns on the Macdonald College campus

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Youth horticulture club launches season at botanical food gardens

The Lucknow Sentinel

The For Our Youth (FOY) club gathered on April 26 for a chilly but productive meeting at one of our favourite locations — the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG). We saw some familiar faces at the March Break Ripley and District Horticultural Society meeting, but stormy winter weather prevented us from getting together in February, […]

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