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Spring 2018

Volume 25 Number 1

The Garden of Erin

Mar 26, 2018 | Janice Quirt

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

Erin’s New Seed Lending Library

Mar 26, 2018 | Janice Quirt

Check out these seeds.

Reimagining Tourism

Mar 26, 2018 | Liz Beatty

Can sharing our way of life help sustain it?

Maple Syrup Traditions in Headwaters

Mar 26, 2018 | Tony Reynolds

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

Lacrosse: Game On!

Mar 26, 2018 | Anthony Jenkins

A curious hockey enthusiast turns his sights to lacrosse, a sport with deep roots — and avid fans — in Orangeville

Spring Hikes on The Bruce Trail

Mar 26, 2018 | Don Scallen

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

John Muir

Mar 26, 2018 | Don Scallen

A saunter through the hills in 1864.

Wildlife Rescue: Cry of the Wild

Mar 26, 2018 | Gail Grant

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

A Quarter Century – and Counting

Mar 26, 2018 | Signe Ball

Every column and feature in the magazine passes through this filter: What does it tell us about the place we call home and the people who live here?

Adam De Witte

Mar 26, 2018 | In The Hills

Adam De Witte’s work can be viewed at Dragonfly Arts on Broadway in Orangeville.

Field Notes for Spring 2018

Mar 26, 2018 | Janice Quirt

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

Retreating from the Retreat

Mar 26, 2018 | Dan Needles

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.