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Our summer issue features stories that connect you to community, nature and the arts, plus the local farm scene with the Headwaters Farm Fresh Guide.

Looking to eat local? Use this guide to find the freshest eggs, produce, meat, honey and craft beverages right at the source.

In The Hills is honoured to receive an honourable mention from the National Magazine Awards Foundation for its distinctly local storytelling.

Meet three of the magazine’s clever contributors – Barbara Fletcher, Jaxon Wakeford and Dan Needles.

Readers respond to stories about rural navigation, road naming, local makers and recycling challenges in the Headwaters.

Pine needles, barbed wire and reeds are just some of the materials Jamila Monahan incorporates into intriguing vessels and sculptures.

Paint in lavender fields, catch concerts and live music, and test your endurance at Mud Hero.

Dan Needles on how eating together and enjoying life’s simple pleasures helped his father live to the ripe old age of 97.

In Headwaters and beyond, plants and animals, from stinging nettles and poison ivy to ants and porcupines, rely on physical and chemical defences to stay alive. We tend only to notice when we get too close.

For Fiddle Foot Farm’s Amy Ouchterlony, the modern woman farmer is part grower, part entrepreneur, part caretaker – and often much more.

What others discard Lawrence and Lucy Kristan transform into award-wining pieces that celebrate the natural world.

Rock some geode earrings, upcycle your style and discover gorgeous Indigenous patterns this summer.