farm – Teahen Tales

City farms for city markets

As his tagline says, he’s “fighting for financial independence with a backyard garden.”

Canada is the world’s top producer of canola: nearly one quarter of the world’s supply is grown here.

Given that my heritage is half Ukrainian and half Irish, it’s not surprising potatoes were a big part of my diet growing up.

Corn is the planet’s most produced cereal crop, a cereal native to the Americas and first farmed by indigenous peoples.

No fact has shocked me more in “My Canada” research than learning Canadians are 29th in world per-capita milk consumption.

Delicacy and respect is required if one’s going to tramp about the woods to gather your vegetables.

Ontario’s McIntosh apple, now produced in greater quantities than any other apple in Canada, was discovered by accident.

By 1900, Brantford, Ontario was the third-largest manufacturing centre in Canada, after only Toronto and Montreal.