Autumn 2011

Can a green gravel certification solve the controversies over aggregate in Ontario? It had better, because it may be the only way out of our current mess.

We revel in their beauty, relax in their shade and are calmed by the soothing sound of their leaves soughing in the wind.

Long considered the best friends of gardeners, earthworms are proving to be formidable enemies of the forest.

My father taught me to appreciate the very much bigger and very much longer story of trees and the people who love them.

Autumn brims with colour in the hills, not only across the landscape, but in the studios and galleries of our local artists.

From the moment she moved into her rural hideaway, Rosemary Kilbourn began to interpret the landscape right outside her door and windows.

For many people in this community, need and desperation are a daily reality, and front-line workers at local food banks say the situation is growing worse.

The versatile, friendly and compact Vanners are often compared to golden retrievers for their companion-animal qualities.

But however ill-conceived the Melancthon quarry may be, the big question remains: how do we satisfy our voracious appetite for aggregate?

Letters published in the AUTUMN 2011 edition of In The Hills magazine.

History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

The mysterious Green Man has resisted numerous serious, as well as more fanciful, attempts to satisfactorily explain its presence and meaning, but for Mono artist John Ashbourne, it symbolizes the relationship between “Man and Nature.”