The Peace Country around Grande Prairie is home to the largest concentration of Bison ranches in Canada. These large ungulates roam wild across vast ranches, lean and free of growth hormones that are used to fatten domestic cows.
Where are the bison this morning? You have to get in your truck or send out your drone and go find them. And Grande Prairie’s bison ranchers are also busy finding markets in Europe and Asia for the big shaggy animals that defined the Old West.
Up Next in Season 2
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After the Inferno
Trees are among the most important plants in Canada, and the future of forests is a Growing Concern. Climate change is causing significant damage to our world by altering weather patterns in ways we are defenceless to stop.
Now, silviculturists and range managers around Fort Mac, a town which it...
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Homesteaders
Lisa and Donovan Kitt are two young famers who are passionate about growing their own food. They purchased a quarter section of land, where they live simply in a log cabin powered by the sun, heated with a wood stove, and by producing as much of their own food as possible.
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Swimming Upstream
As pretty as this little waterall might be, you don't want a headcut chewing through your grain field.
In the case of Graham Powell’s Grande Prairie farm, his grandpa’s earlier attempt to water led to unintended consequences years later.
This story is about a five-year project to restore the str...
