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  • "Brown cows doing fine at Heiland Hame Farm." Rural Delivery, March 1995.
  • "The many faces of the Raymond family farm." RD, May 1995.
  • "Small farm, smaller profit." RD, July/August 1995.
  • "Ambleside Angus headed for Germany." Atlantic Beef Quarterly, Summer 1995.
  • "Cheese the old fashioned way." RD, September 1995.
  • "Hard work, big rewards." ABQ, Fall 1995.
  • "Farmer born, farmer bred." RD, October 1995.
  • "Historic farming practices displayed." Atlantic Horse and Pony, October/November 1995.
  • "Keeping the mix in mixed farming." RD, November 1995.
  • "Becker farm adds goats and cheese making." RD, December 1995.
  • "Getting back to something real." RD, Jan-Feb 1996.
  • "1774 family farm is in (her) good hands." Farm Woman, January 1996
  • " 'You have to have something to fall back on,' " ABQ, Winter 1995.
  • "Tantramar Community Pasture, 30 years on." ABQ, Winter 1995.
  • "Doing something everybody's not." Atlantic Forestry Review, Winter 1996.
  • "Expanding and watching the overhead." ABQ, Spring 1996.
  • "From sludge pit to garden patch." RD, July/August 1996
  • "Learning how to be better farmers." RD, May 1996
  • "Gouda cheese adds income to New Brunswick dairy farm." FW, June/July 1996
  • "Down home with Downeast Charolais." ABQ, Fall 1996
  • "Eastern exposure." RD, September 1996
  • "How 'bout a spot of manure tea?" RD, October 1996
  • "Streams you can bank on." RD, October 1996
  • "Exchanging genes." RD, November 1996
  • "Be a show off!" RD, November 1996
  • "Sailing un-char-ted waters." RD, December 1996
  • "Down on the elk farm." RD, March 1997
  • "Farm course wilts from lack of teachers." RD, April 1997
  • "After school is when the real work starts." ABQ, Spring 1997
  • "A history lesson through horticulture." RD, May 1997
  • "Back to homesteading." RD, Dec. 1997
  • "NB family farms for a better life." RD, June 1997
  • "Farm women mark a century of service." RD, June 1997
  • "This barn is for the birds." RD, July/Aug. 1997
  • "An old-fashioned Skidder." Atlantic Forestry Review, Aug. 1997
  • "Jean Northrup -- N.B.'s driving force." Atlantic Horse and Pony, June/July 1997
  • "Know your cattle" (book review). Atlantic Beef Quarterly, Jan. 1998
  • "Farmland registery 'baaad' deal." Rural Delivery, Jan. 1998
  • "Straw Power!" RD, June 1998
  • "N.B. cow-calf farm pushes the margins." Atlantic Beef Quarterly, Summer 1998
  • "Showing the way." ABQ, Fall 1998
  • "Doncaster's working antiques." Rural Delivery, May 1999
  • "Branching into beef." RD, May 1999
  • "Historic Harvest." RD, Sept. 1999
  • "Biggest of the Brits." ABQ, Sept 1999
  • "Meet Hereford man Brian Trueman." ABQ, Nov. 1999
  • "Horse Logging in New Brunswick." Rural Heritage, Winter 2000
  • "Making Harness in the Maritimes." Rural Heritage, Spring 2000
  • "A look at Norwegian Fjords." Atlantic Horse and Pony, June 2000
  • "Bulls, and a whole lot more." Atlantic Beef Quarterly, Summer 2000
  • "Border Leicester", (Sheep Series I). Rural Delivery, March 2000
  • "North Country Cheviots", (Sheep Series II). RD, July/Aug. 2000
  • "Sentinal Chickens." RD, July/Aug. 2000
  • "The Productive Milchschaf", (Sheep Series III). RD, Oct. 2000
  • "The Noble and Exotic Karakul", (Sheep Series IV). RD, Dec. 2000
  • “Cultivating the middle ground”. Rural Delivery, Jan/Feb. 2001.
  • “Quite an eye-catcher”. (Sheep series pt. V). RD, March 2001.
  • “Squeezing extra profit from the orchard”. RD, March 2001.
  • “Belief is in the Details (Avoiding Anachronisms in Writing Fantasy and Historical Fiction)”. Phantastes. May, 2001.
  • “Lovely Lincolns”. (Sheep series pt. VI). RD, June 2001.
  • “The indoor oasis”. RD, Oct. 2001.
  • “Children's Fantasy: What and Why?”. Resource Links vol. 7, no. 1. Oct. 2001.
  • “Alice, the Princess, and Andrew Lang”. Resource Links vol. 7, no. 2. Dec. 2001.
  • “Nesbit, Baum, and de la Mare's Royal Monkeys”. Resource Links vol. 7, no. 3. Feb. 2002.
  • “Banking on ‘accelerated’ sheep”. RD, Jan/Feb. 2002.
  • “Lofting, Masefield, and Linklater”. Resource Links vol. 7, no. 4. April 2002.
  • “The lazy man’s sheep”. (Sheep series pt. VII). RD, May 2002.
  • “Belief is in the Details (Avoiding Anachronisms in Writing Fantasy and Historical Fiction)”. Canadian Writers’ Journal, June, 2002.
  • “A Sudden Flourishing: Recent Children’s Fantasy by Canadian Authors”. Resource Links vol. 7, no. 5. June 2002.
  • “Practising ancient agriculture”. RD, July/August 2002.
  • Introduction and author biography, Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. Barnes & Noble Digital Library, 2002
  • “We’re in it for the long haul”. RD, Oct. 2002.
  • “Tolkien and Lewis”. Resource Links vol. 8, no. 1. Oct. 2002.
  • “The Fifties: Mary Norton, Edward Eager, Lucy Boston, and Tove Jansson”. Resource Links vol. 8, no. 2. Dec. 2002.
  • “Doing it the traditional way”. Atlantic Horse & Pony, Dec. 2002.
  • “Back in business”. AHP, Dec. 2002.
  • “Experience the Island, first-hand – BBEMA Agri-Tourism project”. RD, Dec. 2002.
  • "Things you've never wondered about potatoes, part one: Elite Seed Potato Farm. Rural Delivery. Jan/Feb. 2003.
  • "'Each opportunity to see things reveals more': MRSC holds FSC field day in New Brunswick." Atlantic Forestry Review. July 2003.
  • "Doing it the traditional way: The Sackville Harness Shop's been in business since 1919." Atlantic Horse and Pony. Dec. 2002.
  • "Back in business: Campbell Carriage Factory will soon open as a museum." Atlantic Horse and Pony. Dec. 2002.
  • "What you may not know about potatoes, part two: Springwillow Farms." Rural Delivery, March 2003.
  • “The Sixties: Alan Garner, Madeline L’Engle, William Mayne, and Joan Aiken”. Resource Links vol. 8. no. 3. Feb. 2003.
  • “The Seventies: Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander, Penelope Lively, and Patricia Wrightson”. Resource Links vol. 8. no. 4. April 2003.
  • “The Eighties: Diana Wynne Jones, Brian Jacques, John Bellairs, and Robin McKinley”. Resource Links vol. 8. no. 5. June 2003.
  • "The Nineties: Rushdie, Pullman, Pratchett, Louise Cooper, and Tanith Lee". Resource Links vol. 9. no. 1. October 2003.
  • "The Twenty-First Century: J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix". Resource Links vol. 9. no. 2. Dec.  2003.
  • "Preserving quality fur for the future." Rural Delivery, July/August 2003
  • "Spinning as a hobby." Rural Delivery, September 2003
  • "Honeycrisp: The apple of his eye." Rural Delivery, October 2003
  • "What's in your future?" ABQ, Early Spring 2004.
  • "A 'working' view of the past". RD, Nov. 2003.
  • "Nappan continues self-sufficiency effort". ABQ, Winter (Oct.) 2003.
  • "Work's a Treat: Nova Scotia entrepreneur makes healthful snacks for dogs". Pets Atlantic. Summer 2004.
  • "Pasture Man". RD. Nov. 2004.

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