{"id":3053,"date":"2022-02-22T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lecollectifbolton-ouest.ca\/from-yesterday-to-today\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:57:49","slug":"from-yesterday-to-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lecollectifbolton-ouest.ca\/en\/from-yesterday-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"From yesterday to today"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
The gradual disappearance of traditional activities linked to the land (e.g. closure of the last dairy farm in Bolton-Ouest in 2015) as well as the gradual loss of landscapes typical of the region (e.g. loss of meadows and increase in wasteland) have contributed to alert several members of the community. Added to this is the fear of one day losing agricultural land still under the status of \u201cgreen zone\u201d with galloping urbanization and the sad multiplication of the disastrous destinies of other rural municipalities. This has notably motivated the municipality of Bolton-Ouest to rethink its strategic priorities (see Final Report, August 29, 2013, https:\/\/bolton-ouest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Plan-strat\u00e9gique-de- development_BO.pdf<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Citizen consultations allowed community members to take the pulse of the situation and to underline the urgency of working on a concerted redeployment. This is how 8 owners initially volunteered to set up a first private initiative that would combine the objectives of various stakeholders. The initiative of the Collectif de Bolton-Ouest was born from the intersection of a set of concerns of the municipality, service providers and owners:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The multiple motivations for leaving being numerous and complex (see Yesterday: The motivations for leaving),<\/u> the Bolton-Ouest Collective has committed itself to a demanding exercise of reflection in order to acquire the tools essential to its initiative. Its first year of activity thus served to outline a rural transition project and identify priorities. Subsequently, the following values \/ activities naturally imposed themselves:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Three areas of development for the Collective stem directly from its mission and its charter of values (see: Mission and Charter of Values):<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Forest ecosystem: <\/b><\/p>\n Agricultural ecosystem: <\/b><\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n\n
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The current buoyant movement<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Three major areas of development<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Topics covered: Individual Forest Management Plan (PAF), Collective Multi-Resource Forest Management Plan (PAFCMR), forest certification (FSC), Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), carbon credit program in private forests, etc. .<\/i><\/li>\n
Topics addressed: Artisanal production (old-fashioned), production with tubing system (by gravity or suction), tapping and untapping, evaporation and production of maple syrup and derived products, quota (PPAQ: Producers and Producers of Maple Syrup du Qu\u00e9bec), niche products, liming of sugar bushes<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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Topics covered: Owner-farmer pairs and rental\/service agreements, farm plans, soil and crop analyses, Agro-Environmental Fertilization Plan (PAEF), inputs compatible with \u201corganic\u201d management (lime, manure and slurry, composts) and their transportation\/storage\/spreading, crop management and sales<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Topics covered: \u201cHighland\u201d livestock (beef on pasture), alpacas, Chanteclerc hens and others<\/i><\/li>\n
Topics covered: Bolton-Ouest as the first rural municipality recognized as bee-friendly (Bee City Canada), geo-spatial distribution on the territory (balance with wild pollinators<\/i> , honey plants), business plan and marketing, co-branding, honey and derived products,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n
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