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Agriculture (definition)
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.
Articles tagged with Agriculture (18)
The secret death of bees
What’s bothering the bees? A new centre in Alberta aims to find out.
Barns and bytes
Welcome to space-age farming, where crop secrets are decoded and tractors steer themselves
Goodbye Tallgrass Prairie
Once covering 6,000 square kilometres in Manitoba’s Red River valley, the tallgrass prairie has all but vanished from the Canadian landscape
Vineland
Wagonloads of fruit are still harvested from farms around Leamington, Ont., but increasingly, producers are covering their fields with greenhouses to produce perfect, profitable tomatoes
Welcome to the Ottawa Valley
Just across the Ottawa River from Renfrew, Ont., is this picturesque Shawville farm, embodying for many the appeal of the Ottawa Valley: rolling fields, wooded hills and a deep cultural heritage.
Source: Canadian Geographic, September/October 2005
Department:
Online exclusive
Contributors:
Matthew Talbot
,
Jackie Wallace
,
Natasha Beaudin
,
Lindsay Foss
,
Paul Politis
,
Katie Wallace
,
Sarah Mayes
Tags:
Agriculture, Agritourism, Balaclava, Ontario, Brudenell, Ontario, Community gardens, Esmonde, Ontario, Farmers' markets, Ghost town, Grant, Ontario, Lemieux, Ontario, Newfoundout, Ontario, Ontario, Opeongo Line, Ottawa Valley
Sustainable brew
Agriculture
Ravaged by the drought
Prairie farm families brace themselves for another dry season
Overdrawn at the water bank
Has agriculture made the Prairies more vulnerable to drought?
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