Ecosystem Services
ALUS Receives Funding for Farmer-Delivered Wetlands in Ontario

ALUS Receives Funding for Farmer-Delivered Wetlands in Ontario

Farmers play a key role in delivering flood prevention and water quality improvements in Ontario.A wetland restoration project under construction in Middlesex County. Photo Credit: ALUS Middlesex.Toronto, ON, June 18, 2024 — Today, Ontario’s Minister of the...

Ron Toonders, Switchgrass for Grassroots Resilience

Ron Toonders, Switchgrass for Grassroots Resilience

Farmers like Ron Toonders are building resilient practices that benefit nature and the agricultural landscape in Ontario   This photo depicts the root system of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum. (Grown at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas) In the hot summer months,...

Currie McIntosh; Happily Creating Habitat at Haywood Farms

Currie McIntosh; Happily Creating Habitat at Haywood Farms

The McIntosh family is promoting biodiversity through their environmental projects on their farm in Ontario Currie McIntosh stands in front of the stormwater retention pond project he constructed with ALUS in 2020. In the fall of 2023, farmers and ranchers visited...