In this interview, mycologist Jessica Wolf discusses the basics of mushroom cultivation for food and medicinal purposes. Watch the first part of the interview below:

This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions on cultivating mushrooms in your backyard, emphasizing the minimal space requirements and the use of materials like cardboard and wood chips. Click HERE to read article.

Nova Scotia garden guru Niki Jabbour, whose book "The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener" is a recommended resource for food producers in our province, has a wonderful article about using cloches for season extension in one of the issues of Fine Gardening magazine. https://www.finegardening.com/article/extending-the-growing-season

This chart from Oregon State University in Corvallis lists critical temperatures for sprouting all your vegetable seeds. By referring to it, you can make sure you are providing the right conditions for starting your plants, indoors or outdoors. https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/techniques/soil-temperature-conditions-vegetable-seed-germination

Soil warmth is critical to seed germination and plant growth. This excellent article from the Harvest to Table website will give you the basics of what you need to know. Read it HERE.

Barbara McLean, with her husband, retired doctor Thomas Wilson, has been running a sheep farm in Ontario for 50 years. What changes has she seen over the years? Jeyan Jeganathan talks to McLean about her life on the farm, and her plans for succession, and other topics from her book, "Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Life." Watch the interview below:

Lynn and Arnie's operation is a large scale, registered Suffolk and Poll Dorset sheep farm combining the best of pasture and confinement to manage the flock for maximum comfort, minimal stress, and producing a consistent, very high quality product. Ewetopis Farms' focus is on providing breeding stock for sale to other sheep producers. All of their sheep are treated with the utmost compassion, which becomes evident as we join them on their daily rounds on their working sheep f

Sheep farming (family bovidae; species ovis aries) in Canada goes back as far as the beginning of agriculture. The first sheep were introduced to the country in 1664. Learn more about it HERE.

Part One: Greenhouse Shape If you’ve decided you want to build a greenhouse, you probably already have a pretty good idea of what it will look like and where it will go. This article will examine a few advantages and disadvantages of specific greenhouse designs, as well as some of the things you’ll need to consider about greenhouse orientation and placement. Let’s start with shape of the greenhouse (we’ll deal with structure and materials in a later article). Greenhouses come

This video shows early starting in an inexpensive simple high tunnel greenhouse. It demonstrates basic ways of using the protective structure in northern climates to extend the growing season.