See the presentation video, above. SOUTH MOUNTAIN — Ninety-one years ago, a little boy helped his father walk their Winchester-area dairy herd eight miles to the cattle show at the South Mountain Fair. Allison Fawcett,…
No Homestead Organics reboot Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News BERWICK — Tom Manley has reinvented himself once again, this time as Executive Director of the Eastern Ontario Agri-Food Network, a non-profit dedicated to development…
Winchester connection ALMONTE — Having pioneered a process that turns waste milk sugar from Winchester’s Parmalat/Lactalis cheese factory into a celebrated vodka named Vodkow, Dairy Distillery has just launched a cream liquor version of the…
Around the Nation A column by Tom Van Dusen We’ve all done it, including me and I know a fair amount about farm equipment and its safe operation. You fall in, maybe 10 cars back,…
AVONMORE — “A long road to recovery” is ahead of an engaged couple seriously hurt this week when a car collided with their horse-drawn buggy, according to a gofundme campaign set up for Carmen Regnier…
NORTH STORMONT — Two adult passengers in a horse-drawn buggy were taken to hospital with serious non-life threatening injuries after being struck by a westbound vehicle on Fairview Drive in Avonmore late yesterday afternoon, a…
ST-ISIDORE — A farmer from the region has been honoured as this year’s recipient of the $10,000 Dave Reid Award by ALUS Canada. Marc Bercier operates a family farm — La Ferme Agriber Inc. —…
Above, Olivia Wright of Brinston donated her watercolour painting of a redheaded woodpecker to help SNC raise funds for tree planting. Courtesy photo FINCH — South Nation Conservation’s (SNC) first ever Art for Trees online…
CHESTERVILLE — With a pair of new butternut trees, the beginnings of a planned arboretum have taken root at the Chesterville fairgrounds. The Chesterville Agricultural Society put in the two butternut saplings last week as…
ST-ALBERT — Covid kiboshed this year’s Curd Festival but it can’t curtail these colourful cows. With their regular summer event cancelled because of the pandemic, Festival organizers are instead adding a dash of colour to…
WINCHESTER — Whether embraced as a sign of economic lifeblood or endured as a source of irritation and inconvenience, those big milk trucks won’t be rumbling through Winchester’s downtown core on their way to Canada’s…
EMBRUN — Embrun’s Francois Latour is all smiles (photo above) after learning that one of his dreams has come true. His name has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records — the actual…
Tom Van Dusen Nation Valley News KEMPTVILLE — A revamped, almost theme-park style Kemptville Campus as described in a Regeneration Plan released last week can co-exist with a provincial prison across the way… especially with…
VANKLEEK HILL — A take-off on Beau’s popular farm-tractor-themed brew, Lug Tread 2.5% is a low-alcohol lagered ale that riffs on the award-winning recipe of the local craft beer maker’s flagship label. At only 2.5%…
KEMPTVILLE — Several years after the University of Guelph’s pullout from the site, a revival of skilled trades training is taking place at the former Kempville College campus here. Unveiled yesterday by provincial cabinet minister…