Tag Archives: rural routes to climate solutions

YOUNG AGRARIANS PARTNERSHIP: RURAL ROUTES TO CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

Posted by JoHana Harcourt on June 22, 2023

ABOUT RURAL ROUTES TO CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Established in 2017, Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (a Stettler Learning Centre initiative) provides opportunities for rural Albertans to learn more about and reap the benefits of climate solutions. By doing so, they are empowering rural Albertans to make informed decisions on how best to modify their farming, ranching, and daily living practices to mitigate and adapt to our changing climactic landscape. Currently, Rural Routes to Climate Solutions run events (workshops, webinars, and farm field days) and produce a podcast and Farmer’s Blog so rural Albertans and agricultural producers can find out more about … Continue reading YOUNG AGRARIANS PARTNERSHIP: RURAL ROUTES TO CLIMATE SOLUTIONS →

August 5th: Webinar- Farm Water Management with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions

Posted by Lilli Klamke on July 11, 2020

When: Wed, August 5th, 2020; 1:00 PM Where: Online Webinar by Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (Register here!) Presenter: Takota Coen, Coen Farm Cost: Free What: These days farmers and producers seem to either be getting too much rain or not enough, but waiting for the weather to change is just not an option when you are dealing with Alberta’s short growing season. Increasing a farm’s resiliency to drought and flood can make all the difference in an overly wet year….or an overly dry year for that matter. Proper water management can help improve a farm’s water supply security in … Continue reading August 5th: Webinar- Farm Water Management with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions →

June 17: Webinar- Perennial Grains with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions

Posted by Lilli Klamke on June 12, 2020

When: Wed, June 17th, 2020 1:00 PM Where: Online Webinar by Rural Routes to Climate Solutions (Register here!) Presenter: Erin Daly, PhD Candidate, University of Alberta Cost: Free What: Join us to learn about growing perennial grains in Alberta! PhD Candidate Erin Daly will discuss her research on perennial grains and answer your questions about perennial grain growing in Alberta agriculture. Rural Routes to Climate Solutions is hosting this webinar as Part Two of a series with heir friends from Resilient Rurals. Resilient Rurals is a partnership between the towns of Bruderheim, Gibbons and Lamont for a regional climate change … Continue reading June 17: Webinar- Perennial Grains with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions →

Farmer Podcast Club: Monetizing Food Waste

Posted by Lilli Klamke on March 31, 2020

Enjoy listening to your weekly Farmer Podcast Club episode. EP19 Monetizing Food Waste– Rural Routes to Climate Solution Food waste is not normally something you’d think you could make a buck off of, if you are an agricultural producer. Don’t get us wrong, producers are pretty inventive when it comes to using what they and the land produce and ensuring as much of an animal or crop doesn’t go to waste. At the end of the day, producers can’t control what consumers want to buy. For the moment, consumers want mainly food that looks a certain way and sold at … Continue reading Farmer Podcast Club: Monetizing Food Waste →

Farmer Podcast Club: EP23 Water & Adaptation

Posted by Lilli Klamke on February 11, 2020

Enjoy listening to your weekly Farmer Podcast Club episode. EP23 Water & Adaptation– Rural Routes to Climate Solution Dr. Sauchyn is a professor at the University of Regina and the director of the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC). His research interests include climate and hydrology over the past millennium, which pretty much means he studies the history of water on the Prairies. He shared some of his knowledge with us on the ways people of the Prairies have adapted to live out here. We know that the Prairies can be a harsh place, a place full of extremes. One day … Continue reading Farmer Podcast Club: EP23 Water & Adaptation →

Farmer Podcast Club: How Organics Fight Climate Change

Posted by Lilli Klamke on November 19, 2019

Enjoy listening to your weekly Farmer Podcast Club episode. EP 7 How Organics Fight Climate Change- Rural Routes to Climate Solution Released Nov 30, 2018 U.S. scientist and Associate Director of Science Programs at The Organic Center Dr. Tracy Misiewicz explains how practices commonly used in organic agriculture can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and how they are a good defence against pests extreme weather events like floods and droughts. Misiewicz also shows how organic ag practices are a handy tool in building soil carbon, a critical component in soil health and soil fertility. Listen to the full episode: EP7 … Continue reading Farmer Podcast Club: How Organics Fight Climate Change →

Farmer Podcast Club: The Brown Revolution

Posted by Lilli Klamke on July 17, 2019

Enjoy listening to your weekly Farmer Podcast Club episode. EP 20 The Brown Revolution – Rural Routes to Climate Solution Soil is pretty amazing stuff. It can produce food, sequester carbon and provide ecosystem services. Since the introduction of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, high-yield crops and irrigation in the 1960’s, agriculture has been more preoccupied with what has been happening above the soil than the vast universe of soil organisms in the soil (we also didn’t know a lot about tiny soil microbes back then either). World renowned soil microbiologist, former chief scientist of the Rodale Institute and former USDA scientist, Dr. … Continue reading Farmer Podcast Club: The Brown Revolution →

Farmer Podcast Club: EP15 Ecosystem Services

Posted by Lilli Klamke on June 04, 2019

Enjoy listening to your weekly Farmer Podcast Club episode. EP15 Ecosystem Services- Rural Routes to Climate Solutions Released Mar 31, 2019 It doesn’t matter if you live in the urban jungle or an actual jungle, everyone lives in an ecosystem. Food production is a service ecosystems provide along with clean air and water, habitat for wildlife and natural pollination of plants. Agricultural producers are simply working with these services that nature provides freely in a sense. Christine Campbell, western hub manager with ALUS Canada, explains what ecosystem services are and how they interact with agricultural land. Campbell also goes over … Continue reading Farmer Podcast Club: EP15 Ecosystem Services →

JOB: ALBERTA – Rural Routes to Climate Solutions, Solar Lab Coordinator

Posted by Michalina Hunter on April 09, 2019

Rural Routes to Climate Solutions in Alberta is hiring a Solar Lab Coordinator! About Rural Routes to Climate Solutions FARM SOLUTIONS = CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Farmers and ranchers can play a pivotal role in building the low-carbon economy of the future. Especially in Alberta, home to one-third of Canada’s agricultural land and two important carbon sinks—grasslands and the boreal forest. The wildrose province also has some of the best solar and wind power resources in Canada. Climate solutions are often viewed as being an inconvenience to our everyday lives. But farm solutions are climate solutions and many of them have multiple concrete … Continue reading JOB: ALBERTA – Rural Routes to Climate Solutions, Solar Lab Coordinator →

JOB: ALBERTA – Rural Routes to Climate Solutions, Project Coordinator

Posted by Michalina Hunter on April 09, 2019

Rural Routes to Climate Solutions in Alberta is hiring a Project Coordinator! About Rural Routes to Climate Solutions FARM SOLUTIONS = CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Farmers and ranchers can play a pivotal role in building the low-carbon economy of the future. Especially in Alberta, home to one-third of Canada’s agricultural land and two important carbon sinks—grasslands and the boreal forest. The wildrose province also has some of the best solar and wind power resources in Canada. Climate solutions are often viewed as being an inconvenience to our everyday lives. But farm solutions are climate solutions and many of them have multiple concrete … Continue reading JOB: ALBERTA – Rural Routes to Climate Solutions, Project Coordinator →