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One of the biggest challenges facing the local food movement is distribution – or how to best get produce from the fields and farms to area restaurants and home kitchens.

What it is that makes this place we call home so dear to us?

Julia’s giddy and gorgeous paintings are both gracious and whimsical – the kind of images that make you want to smile, even laugh, with delight.

The men in your family remind me of a dog I once had. He was very good at letting you know what might happen.

Must Do! A highly selective guide to the picks of the season.

I was making big swooping manoeuvres, feeling as if I were a kid running across the lawn with my arms outstretched playing airplane.

Things were looking good for Bert to achieve the dream he’d had ever since he was a young boy in Mono.

Julia Gilmore and her son Adam, now 14, have become community celebrities: she with her studio exhibitions each November and Adam with a budding film career.

I like the idea of being adopted into another family’s fridge Bill of Rights, of being accepted on this most basic level. It says, “What’s mine is yours” and “I trust you not to judge me.”

Nearly 60 per cent of Americans 18 to 24 live with their parents – a higher proportion of adult children are living with their parents now than at any time since the 1930s.

Letters published in the Summer 2012 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Staying the Course for 175 Years: A story of determination and independence in the face of daunting challenge and bewildering change.