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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.

On the way to our one-room primary school, we often picked the first spring flowers to present to our teacher.

As I headed to the hills every weekend for rest, relaxation and Sunday hikes, it finally occurred to me – these hills are my home. I realized it was time to head back upstream.

The Colbeck Hiddenhorns, The Case of the Kid and the Blue Pickup, On a Hill Near Hillsburgh and Who Was in Charge?

Once again this year, we profile ten exceptional “local heroes,” citizens whose extraordinary commitment and service make these hills a better place to live for all of us. We also offer our annual review of books and CDs by the writers, illustrators and musicians in our midst.

Border Thaw “Climate change has led to the introduction of one of the world’s first ‘mobile borders,’ between Switzerland and Italy. The border was originally defined according to where the…

The key is simplicity, elegance, beauty, & serenity.