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Department of Justice will pursue fish farm case
April 29, 2010
In a landmark action, DOJ takes on Alexandra Morton's case against wild salmon by-catch in fish farms.
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Greener revolution
April 1, 2010
Elizabeth May reports on an islands local food conference and how it impacts our larger community.
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Red is the bite of the future! - Harry Burton
July 24, 2008
Red-fleshed apples are truly the apple of the future. At Apple Luscious Organic Orchard on Salt Spring Island, we grow 23 varieties. The novelty of biting into these apples is amazing—you never have to encourage a child to eat them—and they taste even better than they look. The first reaction to biting into the red flesh is always, ‘Wow!’
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Community farm on Salt Spring becoming EcoReality
May 1, 2008
EcoReality Sustainable Land Use and Education Cooperative on Salt Spring Island has agreed to purchase 37 acres of the former 100-acre Hughes Farm in Fulford Valley, 63 acres of which is to become community farmland.
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Parochial Gardeners
May 1, 2008
We all have our lists of pet peeves. One such irritant is that continental mind-set that declares there are only two seasons, while here on the Salish Sea we celebrate four.
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Saturna salmon cycle begins again
November 29, 2007
Last week Saturna’s salmon enhancement group went up to Cowichan River to collect salmon eggs destined for Lyall Creek on Saturna.
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Organic food more nutritious say EU researchers
November 29, 2007
Early results of a £12 million, 4-year European Union study on the benefits of organic food suggest that some of them, such as fruit, vegetables and milk, are more nutritious than nonorganically produced food and may contain higher concentrations of cancer-fighting and heart-beneficial antioxidants.
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Fifty Years of Rootstock
July 26, 2007
Traas Nursery was the only grower in Canada producing rootstock for the fruit industry.
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More than meets the eye in bee colony collapse
May 17, 2007
I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse.
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