Summer 2008

A group of extraordinary gardeners have created a natural balm for Headwaters patients.

As David Nairn launches his tenth season as artistic director of Theatre Orangeville, he reflects on the changes the years have wrought.

The Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.

On a cold, dark November night in 1941, just when the war news from Europe was bleaker than ever, a fatal plane crash in Caledon Township showed that even training for war was perilous.

The Hills of Headwaters Stable Tour will “open the barn doors” to the public for an up-close and personal peek at the region’s horse industry.

The provincial growth plans have focussed on the cities but “there’s been nothing about the spaces in between,” he says. “If we want farming to be an integral part of the GTA, the province has to turn its attention to the next step, which is creating a viable protected countryside economy.”

From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.

Many of the landowners were keen to do the right thing by the environment, and just wanted some advice and co-operation in the process.

More people in a limited space has the potential for all kinds of problems – social, economic, political and psychological. We cannot continue to pave over agricultural land.

A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.

My paintings remind me of the thinness of time and the passing of the seasons.

With its recent move to Orangeville, Hockley Valley Brewing Company has quadrupled production of its award-winning beer.