Just in time for Canada Day, Farms.com has launched a farm and rural history section of the Farms.com portal: farms.com/reflections-on-farm-and-food-history/. The Farms.com farm and rural history pages are dedicated to celebrating and digitizing the last 150 years of success in the Canadian agriculture and food industry.

Recently the Gambrel Barn was used for a video shoot! Check out this cover of Harris Jayaraj's foot tapping number Manjal Veyil Maalaiyilae!

I'm Entitled to my Entitlements - David Dingwall Video Clip

Ever wondered which variety of apples is best for baking?  Or what the individual taste profiles are like?  Thanks to the Ontario Apple Growers you can learn more about the Apples grown here in Ontario and the best ways to use them!

The Milton Historical Society has released their newest publication "Milton and Area Churches" and Country Heritage Park's Mayne Corners United Church, a rare piece of pre-1900 history, is featured in this book - which makes it well worth the price to buy!

Will Salazar, representing the Northern Showdown Charity Car Show, presented a cheque for the Children’s Wish Foundation for $2,850 from the day at Country Heritage Park.

Over two years of planning culminated into 139 (of 148) threshing machines harvesting wheat for 15 minutes at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum on Sunday. All combined, the machines had 6100 horsepower of engine capacity, and, threshing at roughly 17000 bushels per hour, successfully harvested 30,000 sheaves of winter wheat.

Watch as Hans Rosling explain the facts about population growth and how the world population is shifting for the better. An increase in education & improvement in child survival appear to have slowed the population growth. 

It's one of the biggest environmental problems you've never heard of, billions of pounds of agricultural plastic being burned, buried, or sent to landfills.

But have no fear, the A.V.E.N.G.E.R.S. are working on it."It stands for A Very Energetic Nerdy Group of Environmentally Responsible Students," explains Rachel Wood.