Fence Posts

People often ask me what I do for a living out here on the farm, and for the last four months the answer has been ‘I blow snow’.

Rural living means coming together to help each other – even if you’re from the so-called ‘rough’ side of town.

Is a cut in interest rates coming? Will house prices come down? Only the chicken knows for sure, and he isn’t talking.

Rural living often presents various technological challenges – but sometimes getting disconnected is just what you need.

Maintaning a home – especially a country home – is no easy feat for owners or their wallets.

Veteran writer Dan Needles laments the loss of printed news while pondering the future of journalism.

Dan Needles reflects on how Canadians seem to be the only people who stumble over the words of their national anthem.

Author Dan Needles reflects on the sudden growth of small towns as urbanites adjust to village life

No longer reminiscent of a Mad Max movie set, the township dump has become something of a pleasant, well-managed place, finds Dan Needles.

Safely navigating the narrow, snow covered hills of Headwaters is no walk in the park, as many long-time residents attest and new arrivals quickly learn.

I live in a haunted house. It’s been haunted for at least a century by all accounts, that is, by the neighbours’ accounts.

Two hundred years ago, my ancestors were tossed off the land during the clearances in Scotland and replaced by sheep, who ate less and could be sheared more often.