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For the August edition, we examine aquaponics as a sustainable path to food production, Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, and invasive versus at-risk butterfly species.

Buongiorno, my reading friend. As part of the efforts initiated by yours truly to diversify the content of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I would like to offer you today a text, a short text, yes, yes, short, of an agricultural nature. Our story began in Italy, in April 1906 and September 1909, with the births of Francesco and Eugenio Gabriele Cassani. Their father, Paolo Cassani, was the owner of Società Anonima Paolo Cassani e figli, a small farm machinery manufacturing and repair firm which

For the July edition, we tackled organisms in our soil, what’s on the horizon for space tourism, and the fascinating link between nature and mental health.

As you may have noticed, I hope, my reading friend, our blog / bulletin / thingee regularly opens its columns to topics of an agricultural or food nature. Yours truly will not derogate from this rule in this month of June 2021. Thus, I hereby and heretofore offer you a peroration on a firm whose history was a brief and shining moment in the great adventure of the agricultural machinery industry of Québec / Canada. I hope once again that this text will be an exercise in minimising sesquipedalian

When it comes to an art contest, Ingenium members are quick to show their true colours. This spring, the Ingenium membership team ran its own "Draw with Rob" members-only contest. Ingenium members were challenged to watch one of three videos about art and agriculture, which features a guided art experience with children's book author and illustrator, Rob Biddulph. Next, participants made their own versions of their chosen art piece- for submission to Ingenium. The membership team was thrilled to

In an era of changing climate and growing food insecurity, aquaculture — breeding, raising, and harvesting fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants — has emerged as an effective complement to harvesting wild fish stocks.

For the June edition, we tackle Ontario-grown lavender, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, and the invasion of Brood X cicadas.

I have a terrible confession to make, my reading friend. I do not have a green thumb. Far from it. This being said (typed?), I like plants and flowers. It is in this context that I would like to excrete a brief text on a giant of Québec and Canadian horticulture, Wilfrid-Henri Perron. Our saga began in April 1897 with the birth of Perron, in Saint-Philippe-de-Chester, now Chesterville, Québec. His childhood and youth were quite uneventful, except that his passion for growing flowers and

It’s World Bee Day! In this feature interview, Nadine Dagenais Dessaint gives us the buzz on beekeeping.

For the May edition, we examine a new product that could give your garden a boost, the growing issue of space debris, and the urgent need to address plastic waste in our world ocean.