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The beauty of being a chef is that you get to challenge yourself to turn something you once despised into something even you can love.

My son learned more first-hand than I could have imagined about plants and animals. His garden creation was inspected daily and watered with care. “It’s magic!” he exclaimed.

In the 1880s, prohibitionists took the fight for liquor control to the voting booths of the nation. In the hills, choosing “wet” or “dry” became such a hot button that neighbours and whole communities were pulled in different directions.

Ken Weber’s regular feature, including Orville’s Albion Octagon, Collector Coins at Rosemont, Adrian’s Leg Count, What am I?, The Case of the Stolen Documents and You’ve Got Ten Seconds!

A new web site, a sister site devoted to Kids and our pick of the best things to do in the hills.

Letters published in the Spring 2010 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Beer diets, beans diets, Icelandic banks (on a crash diet?), pets, paws and small farm producers. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Caledon artist Jim Stewart has been creating figurative and abstract paintings since the early 1970s.

Our own highly selective “picks” of just some of the things that make life such a distinctive pleasure here in the hills.

Rock Garden Farms offers the very best of in-season, Ontario grown fruits and vegetables.

Spring always arrives like a surprise. If you love food as much as I do, perhaps the mere sight of the first green bud will send you too scurrying to plan your spring recipes.

When it came into service in 1867, built on land donated by the Village of Brampton, Peel County jail was a grim edifice modelled on England’s notorious Newgate Prison.