This Tuesday, I met with Jeff Wentzell and David Colville at Spurr Brothers Farm Market & Tap Room for a drink of cider.
Both Jeff and David worked at COGS/AGRG. Besides teaching, David was responsible for a network of climate stations. David has retired. Jeff works for the NS Department of Agriculture. Both Jeff and I left COGS in 2011.
Part of the conversation was about the status of agriculture in the Annapolis Valley. Anyone driving through Clarence will have noticed the increase in vineyards on the slopes of North Mountain.
Talking with David, I was interested in the region’s microclimate network status (see the post COGS Weather Network). Talking to Jeff, I was interested to hear about the use of technology in support of resilient agriculture.
On the drive home, I wondered whether there was a role for COGS (NSCC) in Agri-Geomatics (for example, see Agri-Geomatics: the big data revolution in agriculture).
In recent years the college has introduced a Forestry Geomatics program. Both of these Agriculture and Forestry programs would demonstrate the application of a suite of geo-technologies to different parts of the landscape.
In my previous blog post, I noted the lack of district maps for the town of Middleton. I stand corrected there are no districts within the town. The town’s administrative structure is a Mayor ( Gail Smith) and six council members. In Annapolis County, we have eleven districts. If you wish to discover your district, you can go online, Google search Annapolis County Election District Map and enter your civic address.
Acknowledgements
I want to acknowledge the creativity of Edward Wedler. Edward added the links and graphics. He also transformed the original title ‘Agriculture Geomatics’ into ‘In-Cider talk’.
Ernest Blair Experiment 