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When Anastasia Fyk finished high school and left her family’s farm, she never imagined she’d live there again. But after eight years abroad, concerns about climate change drew her back to western Manitoba and her family’s land northwest of Dauphin, with the goal of finding a more sustainable way to …

Usually, by mid-July, Ian Sparkes’ corn crops are fully grown and ready to be harvested and sold. But this year, the Chilliwack farmer says it will be at least another two to three weeks before they can be picked. Sparkes says the cold and wet weather B.C. faced this spring is causing …

Enlarge / All those lights take energy. Back in the pre-legalization days, cannabis production meant finding a rarely visited patch of land and growing outside, or it meant taking cultivation indoors—typically to a basement where your product wouldn’t be visible from the outside world. But the power use involved in …