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...
ALUS Delivers Carbon Sequestration and Environmental Benefits for Bruce Power through Nature-based Projects
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...