Winter 2019

Here’s a basic sauerkraut recipe to get you started on your own fermented foods journey.

Our annual review of new recordings by local musicians.

Howling blizzards, ice storms, power outages. Emergency services are on high alert, but when disaster strikes, the first line of defence is you.

Handy lists for the items you’ll need and the steps you’ll want to take before you hunker down at home or hit the road in an emergency.

These men have been dealing each other in for 40 years and never missed a game.

From kitchen tables to international tournaments, in the pantheon of table games, bridge still rules.

As the dark days of winter close in, we take the opportunity to celebrate a few of those ‘ordinary’ people who shine brightly in our own community.

Letters published in the Winter 2019 edition of In The Hills magazine.

The self-taught Amaranth potter is the force behind a decade of the annual Empty Bowls food bank fundraiser at Alton Mill Arts Centre.

What to see, do, try this winter.

In the haymow I found a red sleigh built by the McLaughlin Carriage Company about 1910, and I took it home to my own haymow 30 miles north where it sat forgotten for another 27 years.

A local florist leans into the holiday season with artful wreaths of foraged greenery.