Agriculture
Harvest Hastings Magazine 2019
You can read the new Harvest Hastings magazine online or find it at The Tweed News office on Victoria Street, Tweed, local libraries, and tourist
Harvest Hastings
July 25, 2019
Agriculture
Saskatoon, haskap and strawberries are ripe
James and Audrey Potts grow fruits and berries on their farm in Foxboro. Strawberries are first to ripen in mid June and then Haskap and
Harvest Hastings
July 5, 2019
Agriculture
Aberdeen Angus bulls for sale
Well respected beef breeders, Dale and Fay Grant of Gran-jou Farms have three pedigree Aberdeen Angus bulls for sale. The bulls have been tested and
Harvest Hastings
July 2, 2019
Climate Change
Ottawa throws lifeline to 50 million tree program
The federal government is putting up $15 million over four years to rescue the 50 Million Tree Program which was cut by the Ontario government
Harvest Hastings
June 6, 2019
B.C. enlists cattle to fight wildfires
Livestock and cattle will soon help fight wildfires in British Columbia as the province looks to create a targeted grazing program. The B.C. government will
Harvest Hastings
May 28, 2019
Climate Change
Wood wide web: Trees’ social networks are mapped
Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and
Harvest Hastings
May 24, 2019
Agriculture
Robotic Icelandic farm has made cows happier
Cows don’t normally get a say in how they spend their days. The first milking often comes at dawn, where they form a cow conga
Harvest Hastings
May 12, 2019
Climate Change
Tackle climate change? Plant 1 trillion trees
What’s low-tech, sustainable and possibly the most effective thing we can do to fight climate change? Planting trees. A trillion of them.
Harvest Hastings
May 8, 2019
Climate Change
Six ways to remove carbon pollutions from the sky
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have emitted more than 2,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. (A gigaton is one billion metric tons.) This
Harvest Hastings
May 4, 2019
Climate Change
Plant trees this spring
This year’s Community Trees Giveaway is supported by Hastings Stewardship Council with Quinte Conservation and the municipalities of City of Belleville, City of Quinte West,
Harvest Hastings
April 8, 2019
Climate Change
Community Trees Giveway
This year’s Community Trees Giveaway is supported by Hastings Stewardship Council with Quinte Conservation and the municipalities of City of Belleville, City of Quinte West,
Harvest Hastings
April 8, 2019
Caring for Land
Commissioner questions government’s intention
Ontario’s environmental commissioner Dianne Saxe paid a visit to Hastings County on Thursday, Feb. 14 to share her 2018 Environmental Protection Report – Water, Wetlands,
Harvest Hastings
February 22, 2019