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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.

Sep 24, 2021

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.

Sep 24, 2021

Ancestral Footsteps

Michelle Grierson’s compelling first novel is a fluid mix of myth, magic and the power of “blood memory.”

Sep 24, 2021

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.

Sep 24, 2021

Meet the Farmers

Bert Tupling, Mike Swidersky and Darryl Burnett criss-cross Dufferin County tending to wheat, barley, corn, potatoes, cattle, sheep and more.

Sep 24, 2021

An Exurbanite’s Guide to Field Crops

A drive-by primer on what’s growing in Headwaters.

Sep 24, 2021

The Active Imagination

Orangeville painter Steve Volpe plucks inspiration from everyday experiences then quickly bends it to create a fresh visual narrative on canvas.

Sep 24, 2021

How to Save a Theatre

The creative minds at Theatre Orangeville were not about to be upstaged by a pandemic.

Sep 24, 2021

Safe at Home

Instead of rushing them to hospital, community paramedics are helping patients stay in their own home.

Sep 24, 2021

Autumn Contributors

Meet three of our clever contributors – Ellie Eberlee, Janet Dimond and Ben Rahn.

Sep 24, 2021

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.

Sep 24, 2021

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.

Sep 24, 2021