Participant Profile
The English Family: A Century of Land Stewards

The English Family: A Century of Land Stewards

 The English family create dynamic ecosystems and manage water on their land with ALUS. Since 1897, the English family has stewarded their century farm in Rivers, Manitoba. Starting as a homestead, the English family now raise more than 250 cows calf pairs, at Melody...

Heather and Mark Shouldice: Buffing up the Land

Heather and Mark Shouldice: Buffing up the Land

With ALUS, Big Rock Bison gets robust outcomes from their ecosystem buffers and mature habitat. For more than six years, Mark Shouldice, with the help of his wife Heather and their children Ty and Ellie, has built Big Rock Bison, an environmentally-minded...

Meet Lisa Kennedy and Joey Halter, ALUS Trailblazers

Meet Lisa Kennedy and Joey Halter, ALUS Trailblazers

ALUS presents a profile series showcasing outstanding farmers and ranchers creating ecosystem services in Alberta. ALUS participants Lisa Kennedy and Joey Halter run a mixed farm near Olds, Alberta. They custom-graze cow-calf pairs and keep horses, sheep and laying...

Meet ALUS Trailblazer Bradley Robins

Meet ALUS Trailblazer Bradley Robins

Alberta trailblazer Bradley Robins participates in the ALUS Wetaskiwin-Leduc program, a partnership between the County of Wetaskiwin, Leduc County and ALUS Canada. ALUS Wetaskiwin-Leduc participant Bradley Robins farms 1,200 acres near Usona, Alberta. While he works...