A Field Day Under Smoky Skies: Wildfires, farmer safety, and community solidarity

Climate Change, Issues

The skies hang heavy with wildfire smoke in the background of photos from last week’s field day at Lawoti Farms and Carabao Fields near Campbellville in Southern Ontario. The smoke rolled into Southern Ontario on the morning of the event and it was difficult to know...

2026 Farmer-led research trials

Climate Change, Farmer-Led Research, Living Lab, No-Till, Seeds, Soil Health

What do fish guts, wool, thistles, and dry beans all have in common? Farmer-led research!

Advancing Reduced Tillage for Organic Vegetable Production: Lessons Learned from a Living Lab

Climate Change, Farmer-Led Research, Living Lab, Living Lab-Horticulture, No-Till, Soil Health

Read about Ken Laing’s Living Lab-Ontario project that innovated ways to reduce tillage for organic vegetable production.

A Curious Farmer

Climate Change, Farmer-Led Research, Living Lab, Living Lab-Field Crops, Small Grains, Soil Health

Read about Brett Israel’s Living Lab-Ontario project that innovated ways to reduce tillage for organic field crop production.

Small Grains Program Receives $1.9M Grant to Support Farmers to Diversify Crop Rotations and Build Soil Health

Climate Change, Media, Small Grains

Guelph – The Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) has been selected as one of eight organizations that will receive funding from The Weston Family Soil Health Initiative this year, to support its work to promote more adaptive and resilient agricultural...

Bringing Ecological Outcome Verification to Ontario’s Temperate Landscape

Climate Change, Farming, Issues

An adapted EOV for mosaic landscapes   by Thorsten Arnold But when I consider that the nobler animals have been exterminated here -the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver,the turkey, etc., etc. – I cannot but feel as if I...