In the last Landowner Tom Black spoke in “Rural Reflections” of his puzzlement and pain at watching prime farmland converted to suburban houses and stores. And if you’re wondering what we’re thinking in letting it happen, the short answer is,…
Last week, Marlene and I joined a great group of people from southwestern Ontario, to meet and greet people at the Ontario Landowners tent at the International Plowing Match, just west of Harriston. It was a great experience, with hundreds of people coming…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a call from a man from Renfrew County, who sells outdoor wood stoves. He was very concerned that he may not be able to sell them any more in that area. He had heard rumours…
Have you ever been to a Landowner meeting? No? Then maybe it’s time. If you live in or around Lindsay, Ontario near Peterborough, we recommend you come to the OLA Public meeting and dinner being held on Saturday October 22.…
This article is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Canada Free Press. For those born and raised in Canada, it is with shock and amazement that we come to understand our current Liberal government’s social agenda…
Hey folks – I finally took a day off and this past weekend, August 31, I went to the Canadian National Draft Horse Exhibition, in Essa Ontario. And what a show it was! Two or three years ago I had…
The FINAL public meeting on the Renfrew County Official Plan Amendment 25 (OPA 25) was held on Tuesday, Aug. 23rd in Renfrew at the Horton Twp. Community Centre. The last of seven such meetings…. this was the LAST CHANCE to…
How many of us have awoken in the middle of the night with a slight pain in our lower right abdomen? As brave men, although somewhat naive in the self-diagnosis department; we—ignore it. Then in the middle of the following…
Mark and Cynthia Tijssen hosted a pig roast on August 9th for the members and potential members of the Dufferin Landowners. To me, it was a great success. A general count put it over 50 adults and they brought their…
While driving home a couple of weeks ago, I passed a field with beef cattle contentedly grazing on green pasture and then a field of corn. The best field of corn in the area, four feet high on the first…
