Sugaring off is a time-honoured ritual in the hills.

Check out these seeds.

Along the Bruce Trail, spring is the time to slow to a saunter 
and see, hear and scent nature’s renewal.

Winter is the best time to find evidence of mink. With snow cover, mink tracks can readily be found along streams or the verges of ponds and lakes.

Sherri Cox, a corporate executive turned wildlife vet, takes her surgical skills on the road to aid animals in distress.

Teens get the dirt on food and farming at Erin District High School.

Crisp on the outside with a rich, nutty interior, they make a perfect morning treat.

Local Hero: Ken Jewett is the founder of Maple Leaves Forever.

Embrace the season with snow tubing, tuning into nature or warming up indoors with a zany DIY parlour game.

Plant a pollinator garden, go for a farming grant and tap your inner naturalist.

The tweets and accusations of fake news in today’s media seem almost dainty compared to the Orangeville Sun’s lambasting of its rival weekly, the Orangeville Advertiser.

For most of the century before I arrived, this old house hosted a parade of smoker-drinker-carnivores who poured Paris green arsenic on their potato plants and thought cleansing of any kind was weakening.

How a Toronto couple transformed a dilapidated house into a year-round sanctuary.

In the snow on a soccer field in Caledon East, a rather strange family and a triangle challenge at Duffy’s school.

Where we’re buying local this spring.

Birdwatchers like me are notoriously nerdy, and the essence of this is a fascination with lists.

No time like the present to start working in the garden! Use these tips to clean up and get ready for new plants.

The heart-gladdening beauty of early wildflowers is a signal all is right in the woodland. Which one is your favourite?

Misha Dubbeld’s gracious Mono garden is a testament to 20 years of love and labour. With all that she’s learned, her latest project is conceived on a grand scale.

How the Heritage Bee Company is boosting the honeybee population in Headwaters and inspiring newbie beekeepers.

Gardener Liz Knowles’ passion for rare yet rugged alpine flora has transformed her Mono gardens into more than an aesthetic triumph. They’re an aide memoire of her life and travels 40 years on.