Zack Metcalfe is a freelance journalist, columnist, and author based in the Maritimes.
2022 Articles
FF June 2022 Help for “a hell of a situation”
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Help-for-a-hell-of-a-situation.pdf
RD June 2022 “We only had our shadows”
http://www.rurallife.ca/we-only-had-our-shadows
RD May 2022 Great composter, exotic invader
http://www.rurallife.ca/great-composter-exotic-invader
AFR May 2022 The good kind of parasite
http://www.rurallife.ca/the-good-kind-of-parasite
RD April 2022 Potato wart roots run deep
http://www.rurallife.ca/potato-wart
RD March 2022 Battle of the lady beetles
http://www.rurallife.ca/battle-of-the-lady-beetles
AFR March 2022 Multi-pronged defence against hemlock woolly adelgid
http://www.rurallife.ca/multipronged-defence-against-hemlock-woolly-adelgid
2021 Articles
Your Local December 2021 Whale Nation
http://www.rurallife.ca/whalenation
RD November 2021 Do we still call it salmon?
https://static1.squarespace.com/s/Salmon.pdf
RD October 2021 Drawing from the Sunbank
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Drawing-from-the-Sunbank.pdf
RD October 2021 Harvesting sunlight
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Harvesting-sunlight.pdf
RD July 2021 Reckoning with ag plastics
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Reckoning-with-ag-plastics.pdf
AFR July 2021 Big mill in a small province
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Big-mill-in-a-small-province.pdf
RD June 2021 Leading the way in forest restoration
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Leading-the-way-in-forest-restoration.pdf
AFR May 2021 Liming the woods
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Liming-the-woods.pdf
RD May 2021 The making of a megawatt
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/The-making-of-a-megawatt.pdf
RD March 2021 Do I dare to grow a peach?
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Do-I-dare-to-grow-a-peach.pdf
RD March 2021 For a rainy day (or a windless night)
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/For-a-rainy-day-or-a-windless-night.pdf
AFR January 2021 Saved from the plow
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Saved-from-the-plow.pdf
2020 Articles
RD November 2020 Writing down the unwritten rule
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Writing-down-the-unwritten-rule.pdf
RD October 2020 BLAME THE HONEYBEES?
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/BLAME-THE-HONEYBEES.pdf
RD October 2020 Panel, pump, and pasture
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Panel-pump-and-pasture.pdf
RD September 2020 Life in a solar hamlet
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Life-in-a-solar-hamlet.pdf
RD June 2020 For the farmland birds
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/For-the-farmland-birds.pdf
RD May 2020 Bats face their own pandemic
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Bats-face-their-own-pandemic.pdf
AFR March 2020 Emergency effort to save hemlocks
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/Emergency-effort-to-save-hemlocks.pdf
RD March 2020 The lost world of Townshend
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/The-lost-world-of-Townshend.pdf
RD Jan/Feb 2020 Growing crops without dirt
http://www.rurallife.ca/s/growing-crops-without-dirt.pdf
2018 Article
RD July-August 2018 Antlers of the east
http://www.rurallife.ca/antlers-of-the-east
