RALP 500

This week, I received email from Jeff Wentzell. Jeff worked with me at AGRG until 2011. He is now back with the provincial Department of Agriculture, as the RALP Coordinator. Resilient Agriculture Landscape Program (RALP). Programs for this year include reduced tillage equipment, pollinator strips, riparian and shelter belt development and water capacity through ponds.

This raised a number of questions in my mind. At AGRG we were strong proponents of GIS and other geographic technologies. With the RALP initiative in Annapolis County, I can imagine these technologies providing opportunities for detailed land use mapping and monitoring. I can also envisage these results being combined with data from a network of meteorological (weather) stations.

With the College of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, students and faculty could demonstrate /facilitate leadership, working with the farming community, within the context of a Resilient Agricultural Landscape.

Yesterday, Heather and I returned to the Gardens in Annapolis Royal, enjoying a light breeze on the dyke walk. Afterwards, we went over to Parker’s Cove, and then the Crow’s Nest at Hillsburn for a chowder lunch. The fog over the Bay of Fundy was a welcome relief.

Postscript

This is my 500th blog.

Edward and I had planned a celebration however he is somewhere, painting plein air with Anne, in Ontario. We will get together later in the Summer.

At the Lawrencetown library Caleb found the book on West Dalhousie, edited by Rachel Brighton.

From Atlantic Books, an interview with Sheree Fitch who received the Order of Canada.

Acknowledgements

Jeff Wentzell provided details on the RALP program.

References

July 2023. Atlantic Books newsletter. Sheree Fitch puts Canada in Order.

Rachel Brighton (Ed.) 2010. Out Home : a step back in time.

Lawrencetown Library (971 633 Out). I expect also, Bridgetown Library.