Bruce Power’s second annual New Acre™ Nature Investments report foregrounds carbon sequestration outcomes and environmental benefits produced by agricultural nature-based projects delivered by ALUS farmers in Bruce and Grey Counties. BRUCE and GREY COUNTY / TORONTO,...
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
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...
Promoting Species at Risk in Agriculture
ALUS, the Fédération de l'UPA de la Montérégie and the Fédération de l’UPA Outaouais-Laurentide jointly launch valuable online resources to support conservation of species at risk on agricultural lands in Quebec. Image of a Bobolink. Allowing native grasses to grow...