FMT grads find success with Ferme des Paniers
Congrats to FMT students Diego Occhicone and Rami Sader, FMT’22, who had a successful season in their new venture, the Ferme des Paniers market garden. The pair who met at Macdonald during their studies, sell their produce through subscription baskets and at local markets.
H. Deep Saini is next Principal and Vice-Chancellor
The Board of Governors of McGill University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. H. Deep Saini as the University's 18th Principal and Vice-Chancellor. Currently President and Vice-Chancellor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Prof. Saini will begin his five-year, renewable term at McGill on April 1, 2023. He will also hold the appointment of Full Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Elena Bennett: Exploring the complexity of ecosystems
Exploring the complexity of ecosystems by John AllemangElena Bennett delights in uncertainty.
Huge crowd pays respect to military veterans
Standing at the podium surrounded by 1,500 people on the John Abbott football field, Joe Maxwell, gazed up into the sunny November sky and said “It’s good to be alive.”
Zacharie Cloutier named Best Cheese in Quebec
Zacharie Cloutier from Fromagerie Nouvelle France in the Easte
Virtual map aims to connect people to food resources across Toronto
With the help of Agincourt community services, Registered Dietitian Ekta Amarnani, M.Sc.’17 has put together an interactive map that helps people locate food resources across Toronto with the intention of increasing access to food.
COVID-19 reshaped the way we buy, prepare and consume food
To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, our research team conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from the province of Québec. This survey spanned three different time points between the initial lockdown in the spring of 2020 and the curfew period in Québec in the winter of 2021.
Canadian government invests $1M to improve health of dairy cows
With an investment of nearly $1 million from the Government of Canada, the Association of Veterinary Practitioners of Quebec will be able to develop a digital tool to anticipate and reduce the risks associated with metabolic diseases in dairy cows which are a major health problem, especially in the post-calving period. Prof.
Natasha Lapointe wins Principal’s Award
Every day for the past 18 years, Natasha Lapointe has been showing up for work at the Dairy Unit at Macdonald Campus Farm at 5 am. Luckily, she has a short commute.
“We live on campus (on the farm site) just a two-minute walk from the dairy barn,” says Lapointe, this year’s winner of the Principal’s Award for Administrative and Support Staff in the Technical, Library Assistants and Nurses Category.
Fall colours on full display at Mac Campus
Macdonald Campus is beautiful year-round, but is truly spectacular in the fall. Neale McDevitt, the Editor of the McGill Reporter, took a stroll through Mac Campus this past weekend and took the following pictures.
View photos in the McGill Reporter.
Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand finding creative ways to reduce food waste
L'Épicerie recently featured Rosemarie Allen (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’12) and Jacob Morin (FMT’11) of Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand in Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey who participate in an on-farm program to reduce food waste. The episode follows Meilleur Après volunteers who harvest produce that would have remained in the field.
2022 Distinguished Alumni announced
Congratulations to Luce Daigneault BScAgr’82, MSc’85, Gibson (Gib) Patterson BScAgr’60, Isabelle Lam BSc(NutrSc)’19 and Jamie Lee BSc(NutrSc)’19 who will receive Macdonald Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Homecoming Lunch on Saturday.
Read full bios.
Mac alumni win Homegrown Innovation Challenge
Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT’19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a “six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.”
Whalen offers expert view on status of soil health in Canada
On September 29th, James McGill Professor Joann Whalen, Natural Resource Sciences, testified as an expert before Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on the topic of “Review and report on the status of soil health in Canada”.
Watch her testimony on ParlVu (09:43:59)
David Wees explains the science of fall colours
"People think that the colder fall temperatures trigger the colour change, but it’s actually the photoperiod," explains Plant Science Faculty Lecturer David Wees. However, some regions of Quebec are luckier when it comes to fall colours than others: those with a lot of deciduous trees like maples, oaks or even birches. On the other hand, areas that have more conifers will see fewer transformations to their landscape.”