Autumn 2021
Volume 28 Number 3
Calling All Citizen Scientists!
All you need is a smartphone and a love of nature to make valuable contributions to conservation science.
Splendour in the Grass
Mono gardener Misha Dubbeld’s newest garden, full of swaying grasses and anchored by a spillway of field rocks, was carved out of a windswept field.
Ancestral Footsteps
Michelle Grierson’s compelling first novel is a fluid mix of myth, magic and the power of “blood memory.”
Farmers at the Table
Three Dufferin farmers sit down talk about what it means to be a modern farmer, the challenges they face and what they wish we knew about them.
Meet the Farmers
Bert Tupling, Mike Swidersky and Darryl Burnett criss-cross Dufferin County tending to wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, cattle, sheep and more.
An Exurbanite’s Guide to Field Crops
A drive-by primer on what’s growing in Headwaters.
The Active Imagination
Orangeville painter Steve Volpe plucks inspiration from everyday experiences then quickly bends it to create a fresh visual narrative on canvas.
How to Save a Theatre
The creative minds at Theatre Orangeville were not about to be upstaged by a pandemic.
Safe at Home
Instead of rushing them to hospital, community paramedics are helping patients stay in their own home.
Autumn Contributors
Meet three of our clever contributors – Ellie Eberlee, Janet Dimond and Ben Rahn.
Stories in the Stones
Murder, Hollywood intrigue and heroic deaths are among the tales that lurk on tombstones in cemeteries from Bolton to Horning’s Mills.
The Land That Feeds Us
Large-scale farming in Dufferin still has a fighting chance of remaining a viable industry that both feeds us and helps maintain national food security.



