Jeff Ronhaar of Jeff's Lawn Care/Mackenzie & Tim Mitchell Planting the 250,000th Tree.  Congratulations Mackenzie!

Haldimand Stewardship & Woodlot Owners Association

HALDIMAND STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL planted their 250,000th tree this summer.  The youngest tree-planter at the annual canoe festival was two-and-a-half year old Thomas Widdis of Kitchener.  Assisting were his grandmother, Colleen Armstrong of Brantford and his mom, Melissa Widdis. Great photos courtesy of Stewardship member Art Lyall.  Thank you, Art.

QUICK REMINDER ~ THIRD THURSDAY READINGS.  AUGUST 15, 1:00 p.m.  POETRY & POETS ~ Your favourite poem.  Everyone Welcome.

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St. Williams Forestry Norfolk Today

"The phough is seldom put into the land before the third or fourth year, nor is it required; the general plan of cropping the first fallow with wheat or oats, and sowing grass-seeds with the grain to make pastures, renders the plough unnecessary till such time as the grass-lands require to be broken up.  This method is pursued by most settlers while they are clearing bush-lands; always chopping and burning enough to keep a regular succession of wheat and spring crops, while the former clearings are allowed to remain in grass." ~ Catharine Parr Traill (1802, 1899)

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"For myself, though I can easily enter into the feelings of the poet and the enthusiastic lover of the wild and the wonderful of historic lore, I can yet make myself very happy and contented in this country.  If its volume of history is yet a blank, that of Nature is open, and eloquently marked by the finger of God; and from its pages I can extract a thousand sources of amusement and interest when ever I take my walks in the forest or by the borders of the lakes."

~ The Backwoods of Canada Catharine Parr Traill Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1929.

Smile for Today ~

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight:  always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

~ Sir James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan.

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