Under the Canopy
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On Outdoor Journal Radio's Under the Canopy podcast, former Minister of Natural Resources, Jerry Ouellette takes you along on the journey to see the places and meet the people that will help you find your outdoor passion and help you live a life close to nature and Under The Canopy.
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Episode 148: A Forest Classroom For Curious Kids
A kid points at a tree and says, “What is that?” and suddenly you’re talking about pollination, fungi, water, carbon, and how a forest quietly runs like a living system. We head to Millbrook…
Episode 147: How Raised Garden Beds Boost Early Harvests And Save Your Knees
A good garden doesn’t start with a miracle fertilizer. It starts with smarter structure, better soil, and a few hard-earned lessons from people who grow things for real.We’re recording from the…
Episode 146: Bring Back The Salmon
Lake Ontario used to hold one of the largest freshwater Atlantic salmon populations anywhere on Earth and then, within a single century, it was gone. That disappearance wasn’t a mystery or “just…
Episode 145: What Ticks And Parasites Are Doing To Moose
Your dog is your best buddy, so tick season hits differently when the prices jump and the risks feel real. We start with a listener-driven problem: how to protect our dogs from ticks and Lyme disease…
Episode 144: You Can Help Save Black Ash By Collecting Seeds
We talk with Vince from the Invasive Species Centre about how emerald ash borer is driving black ash toward endangered status in Ontario and what it means for wetlands, forests, and people. We also…
Episode 143: Foraging Wild Leeks In Ontario With A Film Set Chef
Spring doesn’t wait, and neither do ramps. When the forest floor finally opens up before the leaves fill in, wild leeks and ramps hit their short Ontario season and they are one of the most…
Episode 142: Northern Ontario Spring Reality Check
Southern Ontario is cutting grass while northern Ontario is still buried under feet of snow and that isn’t just a fun weather story. It’s a real window into what it costs to live, work, and build a…
Episode 141: Chaga Tea Updates From Ontario Cottage Country
The world keeps getting louder, but the outdoors still teaches if you slow down enough to listen. We’re back with a spring check-in that starts on the highway and ends in the bush: I share what it…
Episode 140: Maple Season Secrets
Yellow sap in your bucket can feel like a panic moment, and it’s exactly the kind of mystery we love digging into. We sit down with Jeff Wagner of Wagner Maple Products, a working Ontario maple syrup…
Episode 139: From Calgary To Ontario Through Every Season
A two-day drive across Canada will teach you more about weather, planning, and patience than any motivational quote ever could. We pick up right after a sprint of travel and shows, then hit the road…
Episode 138: Ruffed Grouse Habitat Basics
A grouse doesn’t need a “perfect wilderness” to thrive. It needs the right kind of forest, at the right stage, with the right cover in the right places. From the Toronto Sportsman Show, we sit down…
Episode 137: Ontario By Bike
Quiet lessons from the outdoors are still there, but you have to choose to hear them, and sometimes that starts with something as simple as getting on a bike. We open with a bit of real life seasonal…
Episode 136: A Former MNR Biologist Explains Why Wildlife Counts Are Never Simple
Counting wildlife sounds like a spreadsheet problem until you try doing it over millions of hectares of bush, broken habitat, bad weather, and animals that do not want to be seen. We sit down with…
Episode 135: Spring Readiness For Gardens And Yards
Ready to turn late-winter restlessness into a real plan for spring? We dig into the choices that matter right now: how to secure fruit trees and berry bushes before they’re gone, which seeds actually…
Episode 134: Trail Work, Maple Sap, And Chaga Stories
Spring is waking up the woods, and we’re right there with it—clearing a new footpath at first light, dialling in a wood stove that keeps the house comfortable on two small splits, and chasing the…
Episode 133: Bird Songs, Decoded
We trace the first hints of spring from fresh snow and maple taps to a deep dive on bird communication with Dr Megan Gall, a sensory ecologist who studies how sound shapes behavior. Practical tips…
Episode 132: Wood Heat, Winter Dogs, And Hard Lessons From Nature
Frost bites, dogs sprint, and the stove hums while we chase warmth, clarity, and good judgment. That’s the energy today as we trade real-world winter tactics, laugh through a peanut-butter nail trim…
Episode 131: Inside Earthquakes - Science, Safety, And Canada’s Risk
When the ground moves, stories surface—about how faults fail, why small quakes ripple across provinces, and how a few seconds of warning can change outcomes. We sit down with seismologist Marika from…
Episode 130: Emus, Rheas, And The Farm Life
A six-foot flightless bird doesn’t just change your pastures—it changes your business model. We sit down with an Ontario rancher who started with a simple idea in the early ’90s and built a resilient…
Episode 129: Alpacas, Fiber, And Winter Woodstoves
Wood heat hums, snowbanks rise, and the small rituals of winter living turn into hard-won wisdom: how to stretch a stack of deadwood, read a stove thermometer, and keep the creosote at bay. From…
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Under the Canopy has published 149 episodes since July 2023, covering topics in Alternative Health, Health & Fitness.
Under the Canopy is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 55m.
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