In honour of April Fool’s day…a joke involving a spaghetti tree is listed among the top 100 hoaxes of all time.
In 1957, the BBC broadcast a story about a bumper spaghetti harvest from spaghetti trees in Switzerland. Many UK listeners called in with questions, including how they could grow their own spaghetti trees.
A unique project brings daily activities of milking cows to new media tool Twitter.
This article appears in this month’s Ontario Dairy Farmer magazine and is the full length version of shorter blog article I posted here a couple of weeks ago.
They’re an unlikely team – a new media researcher in Waterloo, an [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to visit a dairy farm in Brant County, southwest of Toronto. It was a beautiful farm with a state of the art robotic milking system – which basically means, the cows decide for themselves when they’re ready to be milked and the machine takes care of [...]
The rise of the local food movement has also increased urban interest in growing food in the city. Generally, this means a small garden or some planters for tomatoes, carrots, some herbs and the like. But for some more adventurous types, this drive to “grow your own” also includes eggs – and it’s not as [...]
Here’s one for the “you’ve got to be kidding me!” file…
I read this article on the website of Farmers Weekly, an agricultural publication in the United Kingdom.
According to the story, a UK dairy farmer has been found liable for injuries suffered by a walker who was attacked by his cattle while walking across his fields [...]
An interesting headline grabbed my eye while I was riding the Underground in London last week: “Anger at strawberry growers – Wimbeldon’s fruit farm is berry ugly”.
Anger? At berry growers? I found that hard to fathom so I had to read the story and what I read left me shaking my head.
Canada’s six prison farms are at the centre of a national controversy. But not for reasons one might assume.
Last winter, Corrections Canada, which has responsibility for the institutions, suddenly announced it would be closing the facilities by 2010, citing high costs.
