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Back to SearchEpisode 137: Ontario By Bike
Episode 137
Quiet lessons from the outdoors are still there, but you have to choose to hear them, and sometimes that starts with something as simple as getting o…
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 136: A Former MNR Biologist Explains Why Wildlife Counts Are Never Simple
Episode 136
Counting wildlife sounds like a spreadsheet problem until you try doing it over millions of hectares of bush, broken habitat, bad weather, and animal…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 135: Spring Readiness For Gardens And Yards
Episode 135
Ready to turn late-winter restlessness into a real plan for spring? We dig into the choices that matter right now: how to secure fruit trees and berr…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 134: Trail Work, Maple Sap, And Chaga Stories
Episode 134
Spring is waking up the woods, and we’re right there with it—clearing a new footpath at first light, dialling in a wood stove that keeps the house co…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 133: Bird Songs, Decoded
Episode 133
We trace the first hints of spring from fresh snow and maple taps to a deep dive on bird communication with Dr Megan Gall, a sensory ecologist who st…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 132: Wood Heat, Winter Dogs, And Hard Lessons From Nature
Episode 132
Frost bites, dogs sprint, and the stove hums while we chase warmth, clarity, and good judgment. That’s the energy today as we trade real-world winter…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 131: Inside Earthquakes - Science, Safety, And Canada’s Risk
Episode 131
When the ground moves, stories surface—about how faults fail, why small quakes ripple across provinces, and how a few seconds of warning can change o…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 130: Emus, Rheas, And The Farm Life
Episode 130
A six-foot flightless bird doesn’t just change your pastures—it changes your business model. We sit down with an Ontario rancher who started with a s…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 129: Alpacas, Fiber, And Winter Woodstoves
Episode 129
Wood heat hums, snowbanks rise, and the small rituals of winter living turn into hard-won wisdom: how to stretch a stack of deadwood, read a stove th…
4 months ago
Episode 128: What Anchors Us When The Weather Turns And Life Shifts
Episode 128
A bluebird thaw turned blizzard overnight, and that whiplash becomes a guide to living smarter in winter. We start at the wood pile—why ironwood carr…
4 months, 1 week ago