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Organic? Local? or Both?

Feast of Fields role is raising public awareness. Some people who don’t normally use organic food might come out and discover celebrated chefs are cooking with organics.

Aug 17, 2012
Nicola Ross

Pia’s French Onion Soup

It’s a cross between poutine and French onion soup!

Aug 17, 2012
In The Hills

This little van goes to market

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.

Aug 17, 2012
Cecily Ross

Big business in our backyard

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

Jun 19, 2012
Signe Ball

Julia Gilmore

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.

Jun 19, 2012
Signe Ball

A Life Cycle

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

Jun 19, 2012
Dan Needles

Our favourite picks for summer 2012

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

Jun 19, 2012
In The Hills

Up, up and away: Brampton Flight Centre offers would-be pilots“three-dimensional freedom”

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

Jun 19, 2012
Nicola Ross

The Amiable Shepherd: Bert Nieuwenhuis

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

Jun 19, 2012
Nicola Ross

Presiding Spirit

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.

Jun 19, 2012
Pam Purves

Fridge Friends

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.”

Jun 19, 2012
Bethany Lee

Battles, balloons, vitamin B and Pierre Berton

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.

Jun 17, 2012
Douglas G. Pearce