Environment
Soul of the Home
Sep 15, 2008 |In Finland, masonry heaters are known as “heart of the home,” and in Russia it’s “soul of the home,” reflecting the importance they have in people’s lives.
Oil Futures, Goo Goo Clusters and Judgment Day
Sep 15, 2008 | | Autumn 2008 | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | DepartmentsSome 150 new candy bars hit the shelves every year, but 65 per cent of U.S. brands have been around for more than six decades.
Hemlocks
Sep 15, 2008 | | Autumn 2008 | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters SketchbookTiny cones hang down at branch tips, over winter they will open and release seed.
Local Farm, to Local Food, to Local Fuel
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back IssuesThe Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.
Raising Cain
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back IssuesThe provincial growth plans have focussed on the cities but “there’s been nothing about the spaces in between,” he says. “If we want farming to be an integral part of the GTA, the province has to turn its attention to the next step, which is creating a viable protected countryside economy.”
Dancing in the Dark
Jun 20, 2008 |From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.
Capitalists, Millionaires and Worldly Pleasures
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Summer 2008A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.
Grasses
Jun 20, 2008 | | Back Issues | Departments | Headwaters Sketchbook | Summer 2008Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.
Wetland Restoration? Leave it to Beaver
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Spring 2008If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.
Field of Schemes
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesThere’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?
Enough of Zoomburb
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back IssuesWhen I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…
Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense
Mar 23, 2008 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Spring 2008Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…