I was very happy to do some filming for (and take part in) While The Green Grass Grows — a new film by Peter Mettler, one of my favourite filmmakers and people. It had its world premiere at TIFF last month and is screening again this Sunday at TIFF Lightbox as part of a retrospective of Peter’s work.
I highly recommend seeing it if you can. It’s currently sold out, but more tickets will be released 36 hours before the screening.... If you miss it in Toronto, it will also be showing at festivals around the world in the coming months.
I'm happy to have a print in Photorama, a fundraiser for Gallery TPW that opens tonight:
PHOTORAMA: B-sides + Outtakes
Print Sale Fundraiser Launch Party
Friday, June 13, 2025
Gallery TPW
170 St Helen's Ave Toronto
7PM-late
A few outtakes from our story on the wild world of commercial mushrooms. From her office at South Mill Champs’ cutting-edge Apex 1 farm, Betty Bich Ho manages the picking teams, while her husband oversees growing operations. It’s all about keeping up, because mushrooms double in size every 24 hours, round the clock, in massive warehouses. This labour-intensive industry is now getting a rethink from agricultural robotics visionary Stefan Glibetic @mycionics_inc . Wishing @serviettemagazine and @caitlinstallp a happy issue 6 launch party tonight, and long live the print magazine renaissance!
We visited one of the world’s most technologically advanced mushroom farms, at South Mills Champs in Langley, B.C., for the latest issue of @serviettemagazine With the $70-billion global industry facing workforce shortages and growing demand, the future of commercial mushroom harvesting may be in the hands of robots with remarkably soft-yet-firm fingers. For Canadian agricultural robotics developer Mycionics, this revolutionary technology represents a decade of engineering challenges—not least because this produce bruises more easily than your ex’s ego.
A few more outtakes from Bombs, Bullets & Endangered Birds to celebrate winning Silver at the National Magazine Awards! Pictured: the fence at CFB Suffield (southern AB) wolf at Garrison Petawawa (ON), herd of pronghorn and a baby rattler at Suffield.
Our piece for @thewalrus on the incredible biodiversity in Canada’s military bases (which in some case surpasses that found in our national parks) was nominated for a National Magazine Award. It took forever for us to get behind the fence to see what @canadianforces@canadianarmy are doing to protect wildlife - few people realize that the Department of National Defence employs biologists to protect plant and animal species at risk. And that it’s precisely because of the regime of disturbances caused by military activity that some species are able to thrive. The journey took us to the grasslands of CFB Suffield in southern Alberta to a stand of Jack pines in Garrison Petawawa in Ontario, so worth it.
Some military bases have greater biodiversity than nearby national parks.
New story in the Walrus, words by Sarah Louise Musgrave, photos by me. Link in bio.
1)New recruits survey the hoodoos on CFB Suffield’s 2,961 square kilometres.
2)Juvenile prairie rattlesnake, one of at least twenty-eight federally listed species at risk that make a home on the base.
