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F E A T U R E S 31 PA N D E M I C J O U R N A L S

Personal stories and reflections from those in the trenches of the coronavirus pandemic

70 AWAY W I T H T H E FA IR IE S

Just when we could use a dose of whimsy, magical miniature abodes have sprung up in local forests

by Gail Grant

38 LET THE GAMES BEGIN…

With the 2020 Olympic Games postponed, an illustrator imagines the substitute Covid-19 Olympics

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I N S E R T 45 2020 HE A DWAT ER S FA RM FRE SH

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How local stitchers, engineers, manufacturers and teachers mobilized to help beat back the coronavirus

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Our annual guide to local food and where to buy it at more than 60 farms and markets in the hills

64 A BOOM FOR LOCAL FOOD

In the dark cloud of the pandemic, there’s a silver lining for small farms

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21 A R T I S T I N R E S I D E N C E

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23 FIELD NOTES

What to buy, watch, grow this summer

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99 W H AT ’S (NO T ) ON IN T HE HIL L S

The big pause 7 2 G O O D S P O R T

27 FENCE P OS T S

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Hiking 101

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VOL .27 NO.2 2020

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writers Elaine Anselmi Gail Grant Bethany Lee Dan Needles Tralee Pearce Janice Quirt Jeff Rollings Nicola Ross Ken Weber photographers Erin Fitzgibbon Rosemary Hasner Pete Paterson illustrators Shelagh Armstrong Charles Bongers Jim Stewart

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on our cover Scenes from a pandemic, clockwise from top left: Sign at Reader’s Choice on Broadway in Orangeville; a no-touch delivery; Headwaters British Car Club drive-past of local seniors’ residences; Harpreet Kaur, Karen Brown and Nancy DeSousa at Orangeville’s Avalon Care Centre; a chalkboard welcome at Noinkee’s on Broadway; desolate swings at Orangeville’s Rotary Park; a pickup order from Rock Garden Farms; a child’s poster thanks frontline workers at Headwaters Health Care Centre; a gratitude rock at Lord Dufferin Centre Retirement Residence.

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bethany lee Bethany Lee has written for In The Hills for just over a decade.

She called us up one day with the idea of sharing her story of being a parent living in the hills, and her desire to share resources with others. She started as the operator of our Kids in the Hills website and has since continued her column Headwaters Nest. Bethany is an awardwinning corporate communicator, currently working for the Region of Peel. She lives in Mono with her husband, Derrick, teenaged son, Adrian, fat cat Bowie, and lurcher Blixen – all of whom make frequent appearances in her column. In this issue she writes about working from her kitchen for a region hard hit by the coronavirus and wondering about when and how we’ll know we’re through the worst of it (page 76).

ken weber Ken’s first Historic Hills column appeared in this magazine in 1996 and he hasn’t missed an issue since. His other regular feature, A Puzzling Conclusion, began in 2005, and the puzzle archives online have recently been one of our top pandemic pastimes. Ken’s bio includes a lengthy publication list – best-selling mystery books, textbooks, teaching kits, magazine pieces, articles in academic journals – but he insists writing Historic Hills is a favourite for letting him indulge his passion for history and connect with his community. “Over a long career in education,” he says, “I never got to teach history. Thanks to In The Hills, now I do. And there are no exams!” Ken’s summer Historic Hills column is a salve for these times. He explores the resiliency early European settlers here exhibited both in crisis and in everyday life – long before resiliency became an educational catch phrase (page 74).

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Janice Quirt is a freelance writer who writes our Food + Drink and Field Notes columns and other features. She’s also a freelance social media manager.

On the heels of our spring publication, as Ontario declared a state of emergency, Janice jumped on our social media feeds to amplify news about how small businesses were serving their customers and what readers could do to support their communities.

Janice lives a stone’s throw from Island Lake in Mono with her son and daughter, her partner, John, and his three daughters. When she’s not writing or sampling the region’s food and drink, she’s out hiking, especially the Bruce Trail. An ardent environmentalist, she’s also been dubbed “Mason Jar Queen” at home for her continual ferreting out of sustainable living solutions. She is constantly running out of coffee.

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When I wrote my letter for this page in mid-March, I noted our spring issue was a coronavirus-free zone. But very shortly after that, there was no such thing. No life has been untouched.

In that letter, I also expressed hope that our rural region would be spared the most tragic consequences of the virus. And in many ways we have – at least so far – experienced proportionately fewer cases and deaths than so many other places, but that’s cold comfort for those among us who have fallen ill or lost a loved one. And our community was not exempt from the virus’s most devastating scourge – the tragedy that has unfolded in long-term care homes.

As of this writing, of the 26 lives lost to Covid-19 in Dufferin and Caledon, 18 were at the Shelburne Residence, nearly a third of the residents there. Across Canada, about 80 per cent, or more than 6,000, of Covid-19-related deaths took place in such residences.

Of all the terrible social and economic fault lines revealed by this pandemic, surely the most demanding of immediate action are those in our grievously inadequate long-term care system.

And not just for the sake of the elderly and vulnerable residents who depend on that system, but also for the staff who care for them, along with so many other undervalued wage-earners – the supermarket clerks, the fast-food servers, the couriers and seasonal farm workers, among others. They were suddenly deemed “essential” and are, in fact, just that. But their voices are among the least heard. For the Pandemic Journals in this issue, one young chain store clerk shared her story about the fear and pride she felt in going to work, and the good and bad she witnessed among her customers. But she was reprimanded by her employer for speaking out and had to withdraw her story or risk losing her job.

Like so many others, she continued to show up while many of us were cleaning our pantries and baking bread. Without them, we wouldn’t be making it through.

But, of course, there have been other, much happier revelations from this pandemic. Not the least are the daily reminders of the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. And for the most part it’s those stories of generosity, grace and gratitude we’re celebrating in these pages.

Even so, just as the world convulsed as we put our spring issue to bed, it has heaved again as our summer issue goes to press.

This time the death of a black man at the hands of police in the United States has launched “a great social reckoning,” as Shelburne mayor Wade Mills described it when his town joined worldwide anti-racism demonstrations, “a reckoning that has been in the making for 400 years, one that has finally grown tired of waiting.”

And so for all its challenges, perhaps when the history of this extraordinary year is written, 2020 may be most remembered as the year we finally began to get it right.

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In her “Editor’s Desk” in the spring issue, Signe Ball mentions that her father’s mother and infant sister were victims of the Spanish flu, as it was then called, a century ago. My mother’s mother died in the same epidemic when my mother was seven years old. Her mother was pregnant at the time. Mom had gone off to school that day, and when she came home, her mother had been taken to the hospital. Over the years, Mom would say, every so often, in a wistful way, “I never got to say goodbye …”

For years I’d been wearing her mother’s high school ring, a simple gold band with raised numbers on it – “01” with an acanthus leaf on either side. (She had graduated in 1901.) When Mom passed away at the venerable age of 98, I looked down at my grandmother’s ring and thought to myself, “She’s with her little girl again.” Now I wear Mom’s wedding ring and her mom’s ring on the same finger. My guardian angels.

So here we are 100 years later. I wonder what family lore our grand­children and great-grandchildren will be sharing 100 years from now.

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a question of morels In the excellent article “My Foray into Foraging” [spring’20], author Ruth Ann Pearce mentions eating morels “fresh.”

As an avid morel forager for 20 years, I would never eat these mushrooms uncooked. I’ve never tried, but that is the conventional wisdom with these delicious fungi.

A couple of years ago at a banquet at the University of British Columbia, a very talented chef was presented with fresh morels and, wanting to utilize local delicacies, put slices of raw morels in a salad that was served. Dozens of diners went to hospital.

Apparently, raw morels won’t kill or seriously harm you, but they can upset the stomach.

I am not a scientist or doctor, but I do deeply respect wild mushrooms, and I am very careful with them. I would not eat raw morels myself, but cooked ... yum!

Doug Koch, Mulmur

Editor’s note: Mr. Koch is correct. Morels should not be eaten raw.

By “fresh,” writer Ruth Ann Pearce meant that these delicacies taste delicious when cooked shortly after harvesting.

We hope this finds you well and not going completely crazy in your four walls!

Thank goodness we are fortunate enough to live in such a beautiful place with space to breath.

We wanted to send a little note to thank you for the lovely piece in this springs issue [“Made in the Hills: Local Buys, spring’20].

We have had a wonderful response. The photos that Pete Paterson took are perfect and really show our product.

Please stay safe, stay home and we look forward to meeting you one day soon when our world is safe again.

Kim & Charlie Ann Kovach HalfCut Candle Company, Mono Centre

highlighting history I enjoyed Don Scallen’s article, “Home, Home in the Hills” [spring’20], so very much. Well done. I did not know of Carver Simpson’s diary before – or of the University of Guelph’s Rural Diary Archive [where the diary is available online]. Along with Ken Weber’s “Passing ‘The Entrance,’” Scallen’s article made the entire issue one of great content.

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Gardening interest blossoms NOW T H AT ’ S S E RV IC E

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Local sellers who have our backs Since March, we’ve been grateful for anyone who kept us going with curbside pickup and local delivery – while many spots are starting to reopen, we wanted to pause to say thank you to those who saw us through.

After Deborah Shortill was forced to close her chic clothing shop Hannah’s in Erin because it wasn’t an essential service, she wondered how she could mimic the in-store sense of discovery for her longtime customers.

The answer? A no-pressure once-a-week delivery. “Our customers are traditionally very hands-on, wanting to touch, feel and try things on,” says Deborah. “We developed Hannah’s Hampers, featuring a weekly outfit for customers to order with the option to return what doesn’t suit.”

Pre-pandemic, Orangeville’s BookLore had only closed during regular hours once in 30 years (that one day was in the 2003 blackout). When owner Nancy Frater had to shutter, local book hounds who’d long relied on Nancy and her staff for literary stewardship panicked the way others were panicking over toilet paper. Nancy quickly started enhanced email and phone orders (personal recommendations included), curbside pickup and local delivery.

Co-operation was key for Readers’ Choice Bookstore, Blumen on Broadway and Sproule’s Emporium, who collaborated on beautiful Mother’s Day Community over Competition gift collections. Neighbour Suzanne Gardner Flowers provided free curbside “karma bouquets” and more options on her website to replace in-store browsing. Thrift shop Seconds Count, although closed, created a “Hats Off and Thank You” window for frontline and essential workers.

In Caledon East, June & Rose Candle Co. came up with their limited edition Quarantine + Chill candle available for porch pickup or delivery. It sold out, but two more launched in May – Olive and Basil and Rosemary Mint.

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In Orangeville, Noinkee’s owner Miyeko Simons showcases her breezy clothes and accessories (and sale items) in artful Instagram posts.

Orangeville BIA’s new online shopping site boosts newbie e-tailers.

If you’ve tried to buy blooms at a garden centre recently, you’ll know by the lineup that interest in DIY gardens has surged. Here’s hoping we all find what we need. One option to consider is the Orangeville Seed Library, which has been offering porch pickup at 38 McCarthy Street. Matthew Smith, who heads up the seed library, admits gardening from seeds is a labour of love, but encourages newbies to try.

Look for wildflower seeds donated by Bees Matter, a national partnership of agricultural organizations with a vested interest in pollinator health. Or try the Erin Seed Lending Library for native plants, decorative plants and flowers, and edible fruits and veggies. The library has been temporarily located at organizer Jen Edwards’ front porch.

What to choose?

Flower farmer Jenna Livingston of Flourish Blooms in Hillsburgh has a few tips. If you’re start­ ing in late June or in July, she suggests sunflowers, zinnias and marigolds as good bets. “Learning to grow and harvest your own flowers and food makes us a more resilient and connected community,” says Jenna, who spent part of the spring delivering tulips to waterfilled buckets her customers left on their porches. “I hope this trend of growing your own or searching out local producers continues post-pandemic,” she says.

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Virtual culture explodes

paused its northern summer paddling excursions. “You may not get to the far

During lockdown we needed art and culture more than ever.

And local artists and institutions kept our brains fed – with art and content, much of it still online.

north this summer, but brewing your morning coffee over an open fire is a

Mono singer Sara Rose wrote and posted the haunting Covid-19-inspired song “Coming Home.” From her Amaranth studio Ann Randeraad shared mesmerizing videos of shaping clay and throwing pots on the wheel. And Orangeville artist Emma Pink offered a Family Art Kit to create canvas time capsules of these strange times.

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great break from routine,” says Al.

Galleries and museums held virtual shows and shared online tools for students to use from home. We loved what many Alton Mill folks cooked up, including Headwaters Arts’ In The Mix show, Noodle Gallery’s spotlight on painter Stephanie Fehrenbach, and CJ Shelton’s Facebook art club. The Rose Theatre in Brampton streamed concerts from Brampton’s Polaris-prize-winning hip-hop artist Haviah Mighty and reggae singer Exco Levi for home viewing.

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We heart this When the Hospice Dufferin Sharing Heart program asked for volunteers to create hearts out of paper, yarn or fabric, Shelburne’s Cathy Timbers started sewing right away. The program distributes the hearts to families with relatives living inside facilities that could not accept visitors – as comfort items to hold while thinking of each other. Cathy made close to 40 fabric hearts for families and their isolated loved ones at Shelburne Residence and Dufferin Oaks Long-Term Care Home. For more information, contact bbrown@hospicedufferin.com.

Interested in something mentioned here? Find links to social media pages & websites at Field Notes on inthehills.ca.

Summer camp replacement therapy Most camps were cancelled this summer, but innovative options are popping up. Dirt 2 Delicious Virtual Camp out of Palgrave is selling a biweekly subscription box ($30 per box, $50 for two) with local ingredients, recipes and cooking challenges.

Orangeville’s Art with Jada has flipped to online one-on-one sessions including canvas, paint and instruction ($35). And Teen Ranch in Caledon hosts properly distanced trail rides (10 years and over, $40) and riding lessons (5 years and over, from $50).

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n the first few days after the order to shelter in place, our two sons returned home and prepared to ride out the pandemic with us. Our new normal included regular sit-down family meals with the two girls joining us from Calgary and Grande Prairie on FaceTime.

Family dinners have become a rarity over the past few years, but the national emergency brought them back with a rush. There were lots of questions and very few answers to offer at that point, but my wife said very firmly that the most important thing we could all do was look after each other as best we can.

My big livestock protection dog, Dexter, was sitting with us listening attentively as he always does. The very next day he went out on his morning patrol and brought back a turkey. I don’t mean a mouldy wild turkey carcass from the woods. This was a shrink-wrapped, 10-pound, Grade A Butterball from Walmart. I called around the neighbours to see where he might have found it, and old John McKee said, “Danny, that’s a good dog. I think he is possibly a breeder. Did he eat much?”

I said, “Just one of the legs.”

“That’s fair,” said John. “It’s about 15 per cent, which is a reasonable finder’s fee. He’s doing curbside pickup for you.”

That’s one way to look at it. Some might call him a porch pirate. Dexter has a milk and cookies route he follows every day around the Ninth Concession no matter the weather. It takes him to every corner of this farm and the ones next door too. He wants us to believe he keeps us safe from coyotes, but this is a harmless fiction. The truth is he craves news and

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gossip as much as any of us and he makes more effort to find both. He is snow-white and majestic, and his long legs cover ground effortlessly. He seldom comes when called, although he does stop when he hears my voice, even if he is 500 yards away. He waves his tail enthusiastically, woofs and carries on his way. When he does finally come home, he sits on the hill across from the house in the sheep pasture and sings for about 10 minutes – or as my wife says, he “hoos.”

It is a joyous sound and it has given us a special comfort over the last two months.

Dexter wants us to believe he keeps us safe from coyotes, but this is a harmless fiction.

The truth is he craves news and gossip as much as any of us.

His head is just about even with the side mirror on a car and newcomers to the farm are startled when he leans in the window and asks, “Are you comin’ in for a bit? She just made biscuits!” He has never been a guard dog and is mystified by this business of social distancing.

He finds the best vantage for keeping an eye on the neighbourhood is from the master bedroom which looks out over the pastures and the bush. The second-best place is right in the middle of the road at the end of our lane, where he lies for hours at a time.

Fortunately, traffic is light on the Blind Line and the neighbours have been driving around him for many years without complaint.

In this household we often ask the question, “Why can’t you be more like Dexter?” Why can’t you just drop the bag of hammers and find something to be delighted about? This question has popped up frequently during the past weeks of enforced isolation. Why can’t we rise with the sun, trot out to the sheep pasture, sit down and sing a song of praise and thanks for the beauty and the endless distractions of this corner of the earth?

I have some difficulty following my own advice, now that every theatre is closed and I have no engagements for the rest of my life. I am reading about people in downtown condos taking advantage of the lockdown to learn jazz piano or finally figure out how to podcast, and it all sounds very creative and therapeutic. But thankfully, I live on a small farm, which is a jealous mistress and wants your undivided attention. The farm cares nothing for pandemics and stock market meltdowns because this is a new growing season with a whole set of rigid deadlines and many moving parts. It requires my constant vigilance.

This morning, Dexter brought home four sausages and a French loaf. He’s going to get me into trouble.

Author and playwright Dan Needles is the recipient of the Leacock Medal for Humour. He lives on a small farm in Nottawa.

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On the following pages you’ll find personal dispatches from the local trenches of the pandemic. Amid the onslaught of emergency announcements, school closures and public health warnings, we wanted to mark these unforgettable times the best way we know how here at In The Hills – by diving into as many stories as we could.

Collecting these accounts from individuals across Headwaters is our way of making sense of how the pandemic has affected and continues to affect our community.

From a nurse who suffered from Covid-19 with her whole family to a mayor whose town faced a devastating outbreak at a long-term care home, we learn about just how cruel the disease caused by this coronavirus can be.

Others, including a piano teacher plying her trade by video call and a teenager stuck at home with her thoughts, show us how crucial creativity, reinvention and personal connection will be in the coming months.

We thank everyone who shared a glimpse of their lives with us.

Please visit inthehills.ca for more journals.

If you’d still like to share yours, we’ll be collecting stories until August 1 – we look forward to hearing from you.

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“I miss going to work and seeing threedimensional people” Two weeks into her new job as theatre manager, the curtain dropped and the house went dark.

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’ve been with Theatre Orangeville for nearly a decade. During that time I’ve discovered an endless passion for the transformative experience of theatre, a place to call home in our thriving arts community, and professional ambitions that outshine any I’ve ever known.

When I recently competed successfully to become general manager of my hometown theatre, I was ecstatic and brimming with ideas. I felt on top of the world.

I officially started on March 2. Eleven days later we opened the world premiere of Too Close to Home, even as Premier Ford was announcing the restriction of public gatherings over 250 people. The next day, with the guidance of public health and the Town of Orangeville, we closed the theatre indefinitely. We were among the first businesses to close our doors and,

along with countless other live performance venues, will be among the last to return to “business as usual.”

Very quickly my life became all about Zoom meet­ ings, contingency plans, what ifs and what thens.

I’ve been learning to balance working from home alongside my wife (who is in the same boat), while we simultaneously attempt to acquire a Grade 4 education (we thought we already had that!) so we could assist our son through online learning. We’ve expanded the garden, painted the doors, made bread and cinnamon buns, even tried our hand at doughnuts. We’re doing our best to reassure our kiddo (and ourselves) that everything is going to be okay.

I miss time spent with family and friends. I miss going to work and seeing three-dimensional people (although I’m incredibly proud of the two-dimensional versions I see on my screen every day, who are

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This Orangeville nurse contracted Covid-19 – along with her whole family.

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working diligently to continue to spread joy through our community). I miss producing theatre and wel­ coming audiences into the Opera House. Not know­ ing when we will next be able to gather our patrons, staff, artists and volunteers again to share in the familiar art of storytelling is still unfathomable to me.

All that to say I feel incredibly fortunate, when so many others are struggling. My family is healthy and I’ve witnessed such kindness and generosity in our community, especially from our patrons who have shown the theatre such support during these unprecedented times. Despite all the unrest in the world, there are so many people and businesses going out of their way to help others and do good.

It’s these stories I hope we can continue to share until we can return to life as we once knew it. There’s a long road ahead, but the show will go on… eventually.

went back to school and became a nurse after a career in business in downtown Toronto. This is my fifth year at Headwaters Health Care Centre. I’ve worked on all the wards, as well as at the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Centre.

When news about the virus first started, we had meetings where we discussed things like infection control, but it was before we knew how bad it would get. Then there was an outbreak among staff at the hospital. Most of my assignment was treating Covid-19 patients. We used all the personal protective equipment and took all the appropriate precautions, but people don’t realize how easily this virus spreads.

I worked a shift on Friday, April 10. After work I noticed I was sneezing and coughing. By Sunday night I had a fever, body aches, chills and a cough. I got a Covid-19 test on Monday, and it was positive. Wednesday my husband, Ben, was tested and he was positive too. Then my daughters, Ainsley and Maggie, began to show symptoms.

Out of the whole family I was the one who seemed to get every symptom. I was sleeping 17 hours a day. I had no appetite, and no sense of taste or smell. Some days I’d start to feel better, but the next day I’d be flat on my back again. Worse than that was the stress of worrying. I’ve seen what can happen to people’s lungs with this disease, and I knew day 10 can be a tipping point, where you either get better or you get worse. As each of us crossed that line, I was a mess.

We did get better though. In total I was sick for 17 days. We were all between 14 and 17 days.

I went back to work the beginning of May, after two negative tests.

There is so much negativity these days, but I want to stress the positives that came from this experience. My family grew closer and there’s way less stress now that we’ve had the virus.

People dropped food and groceries at our door, and it made me feel blessed. The public health department was a great support. The staff at the hospital has become an even tighter bunch.

The leadership is to be commended for the way they have taken care of staff. I’m so glad I got into nursing. This has made me realize it’s what I was born to do.

As told to Jeff Rollings. This interview was condensed and edited.

“The collective grief shared by our community t was the night of March 11th when something changed for me. Until then it had seemed as Ihowever, though the “novel coronavirus” was somewhat of a distant threat. That Wednesday night, is something that will as I sat in bed watching the news, the threat of this virus took on a new reality. That was the day the World Health Organization officially declared a global pandemic. long endure” The next morning I contacted our municipal CAO to express my growing concern. At that Shelburne’s mayor reflects on both the tragedy that gripped his town and the compassion it inspired.

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time, the number of positive cases within Dufferin County was still in the single digits, but my gut feeling was telling me this would not long remain the case. Almost immediately we began developing strategies that would ensure the continuity of municipal services and operations throughout the pandemic.

Very early into the process, we decided that public communication would be an integral part of our strategy. This decision was rooted not only in the belief that we should be forthright with our residents, but it also recognized the fact that a well-informed community would be more likely to lean in when needed. To that end I began issuing daily updates through social media.

In the ensuing weeks these updates would become a central part of my daily routine and oddly enough, they would also become personally therapeutic.

On March 20th, I officially declared an emergency within the Town of Shelburne, and since then my days have been filled with a seemingly endless stream of virtual meetings and phone calls. Suddenly we were dealing with challenges and issues that required all of us in leadership positions to act quickly, decisively, and creatively. Among the many challenges we have faced, however, none hit me as hard as the absolutely tragic situation that unfolded at the Shelburne Residence. The extent of the outbreak and the loss of life seemed unimaginable, and the collective grief shared by our community is something that will long endure.

Leading our community through a global pandemic was certainly not something I had anticipated when I became mayor. This experience has tested me on a number of levels and it has changed me – hopefully for the better. Early on, I called upon the community to let the “better angels of our nature” show up, and I can say with an abundant sense of pride and humility that Shelburne answered that call. Our efforts have truly been collective, and I will remain forever grateful for the support and compassion that our community has shown.

“The enthusiasm of my students remains” A piano teacher keeps her music school running on her iPad.

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achieved my dream of opening my own music school in 2013 in the beautiful Inglewood United Church in Caledon. I can’t put into words how fortu­ nate and grateful I am that I can continue teaching my Inglewood School of Music students online from my home in Grand Valley during this crisis.

What I do is very organic and low tech. All I have ever needed to teach was a piano, books, the ability to print sheet music, my hands and my heart. The first step I took was to upgrade my PowerBook G4 (circa 2000) to a seventh generation iPad. As soon as my iPad arrived on April 6, online lessons began.

I was teaching 40 students per week at the church and currently 22 are continuing their musical education online.

At the church, my students and their families, the Inglewood community and the church board members created an environment where musical comprehension, development and creativity thrive.

The children come in smiling and leave smiling. So it was no surprise to me that when this pandemic hit,

we all came together as a team to keep our weekly lessons rolling in the same spirit.

Although scheduling and teaching online has its challenges and I deeply miss the ambiance and acoustics of the church, the enthusiasm of my students remains. It feels wonderful to share an activity that gives them something to focus on and offers them great gains academically and emotionally. It also fills their time with something positive – music. All of this, plus seeing my students’ smiles and enthusiastic waves when we connect online, keeps me motivated to continue.

One challenge has been guiding and helping students with rhythm as they play through or sing through a piece. Many of my students are in the country, and with delays and lag times online, it’s often not possible to count along or play along with them in real time. What’s helped here is recording pieces for students to practise with. I send links from YouTube and access codes to listen through the Royal Conservatory of Music’s website. I also record myself

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playing and send those files as well.

Together with my students’ parents, we have managed to overcome any challenge we have faced so far. We are continuing to work together in supporting and encouraging these kids to play on and keep trying, no matter what.

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A Bolton emergency child care provider helps frontline workers do their jobs.

BY MELISSA CIANFAR ANI

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’m a registered early childhood educator and a YMCA child and family development supervisor and my usual workplace is the YMCA Child Care Centre on Queen Street in Bolton, with children up to and including four years of age.

I’m still at the Bolton centre, but we’re only delivering emergency child care for Region of Peel frontline and health care workers. The centre normally operates 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., but since April 6 we’ve been open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

When I was asked to be part of this team, I knew I had to say yes! Assisting frontline and essential workers in my community is a wonderful feeling. I remember being a bit nervous to meet a new group of families on the first day and knew there might be tears from the children because their families are not able to accompany them into the centre.

When I went outside to pick up the first child, I saw huge smiles on the parent’s and child’s faces and it put my nerves at ease. Seeing the smiles each day is a constant reminder of why I’m doing this and why I love my job so much.

Safety is our priority. Each educator watches fewer children than normal to increase physical distancing.

Children in the same family stay together instead of being assigned by age, and we also keep the same group of children together with the same staff.

Parents, guardians and visitors are not allowed inside.

Prior to starting each day, we screen staff, parents and children for symptoms of Covid-19. If anyone answers yes to the screening questions or has a temperature of 38 degrees or greater, they must consult with Peel Public Health to arrange for priority

“Slowly, day by day, it got easier and I not as weird” A yoga teacher discovers the Zen in Zoom.

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testing. Staff ensure children are monitored for new illness throughout the day and that they are constantly hand washing.

The children have been busy creating posters, cards and books for our health care heroes. Our front windows are covered with drawings that thank frontline workers for their hard work and dedication.

Some parents have also taken the children’s artwork to work to share with colleagues.

I am lucky to live in Bolton, close to my workplace. I am grateful to have a very helpful and understanding husband, too. Frontline workers are making so many sacrifices to help us. This is my way of giving back to help support them.

As told to Tralee Pearce. This interview was condensed and edited.

am a registered yoga teacher and have been teaching yoga in Mono and Orangeville for the past three years. I had built my business around my young family, visiting people in their homes and businesses for yoga classes. I was busy every day travelling around our beautiful region doing a job I love.

Covid-19 hit and the lockdowns began just after we arrived in Mont-Tremblant at the end of a 10-hour drive with three kids for our March break. During the long drive home, I was feeling fed up as the reality of the challenges my business was about to face started to sink in.

Yoga is about the connection of the body and mind, and feeling connected to whomever I am teaching is very important to me. It’s why I love teaching in people’s homes. During the drive home, I balked at my husband’s suggestion that I could stream classes online. I am not of the Instagram generation that is happy to do selfies and see myself on camera. I’m the girl who hates hearing or seeing videos of herself. I cringe! But we have always tried to teach our kids that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade ... and I was going to have to suck some lemons.

I contacted a friend and asked her to be my guinea pig. Then, with help from my hubby, IT department and staging co-ordinator, I did my first-ever Zoom yoga class from my home studio in Mono. And yes, teaching poses to a screen was weird. But I adjusted and figured people needed a little yoga now more than ever. So I apprehensively got in touch with all my clients and, apart from one or two who didn’t have a fast enough Internet connection (this is Mono after all), everyone was on board and supportive. Slowly, day by day, it got easier and not as weird.

I began a free weekly Zoom class for my in-laws and a few others I knew were home alone, asking only that they pay it forward. I started similar classes for my mum and my five aunts in Ireland, and now I get to connect with them every week as well. I also ran a mother-daughter Zoom yoga class on Mother’s Day weekend to help others reconnect after being isolated. It has been different, but it has been fun. It’s not something I would like to do forever, but in this current world, it gives a little bit of time to re-centre and just breathe.

“I always think of my family – my wife, Faviola, and my daughter, Jimena” On a Mulmur farm, an essential seasonal worker misses his Mexican homeland.

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arrived here in mid-April, maybe two weeks late. When we took the plane to Canada, it included only Mexicans, only workers. We were tested for Covid. We wore masks. We were in quarantine for two weeks.

I was lucky. I know people in Mexico who can’t get out. I’ll stay here for six months and 28 days, something like that. I count down the days, every day. It’s hard. I always think of my family – my wife, Faviola, and my daughter, Jimena. I left my farm and came here because I make more money.

I have the same skills as all Mexicans – we can do almost everything.

Every morning I see the news from Mexico on my telephone. Three days ago, we had a map of the whole country where you could see just a couple of red spots. That means they are really bad for Covid. Two days ago, I saw the same news and all the country was red. No place was a different colour.

My friend Ricardo has Covid. He’s still alive, but he says it’s terrible. My family tries to stay home all the time. They wear masks. Only the big stores, like Walmart, are open. All the little ones, they’re closed. Everything is closed.

I miss my family, my wife, my daughter. We can’t go to the town. We do the same thing every day. We finish work. Take a shower. Cooking. We go to bed. I make Mexican food every day. A guy comes and sells us Mexican foods. My favourite is brown mole – with chicken, yes.

I always wish to know more about Canada. Canadian people are friendly people. I always say Canadian people are smart. Canadians have a machine to grind, a machine to do everything.

All of us here have the same feelings when we leave our children behind. Sometimes we leave our children when they are little and about to walk. When we see them again, they can already walk and talk. Many of my compañeros gave up a lot to come here. Many people think we came to benefit our families. But, analyzing things, yes, they support us a lot to come here. We sometimes don’t know what we win or what we lose – moments we will never live again.

It feels different this year. Everybody’s worried about getting Covid-19. I hope everyone stays safe, stays healthy. I know many people worry about this. But I think everything is going to be fine.

As told to Nicola Ross. This interview was condensed and edited.

“There was no time to wallow” How the duo behind Orangeville’s Lavender Blue Catering are keeping Dufferin fed.

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erry Doel and I started Lavender Blue in 2013.

Le Finis opened in late 2019 as our front entrance, with Parisian pastries, cheeses and cocktails.

On March 15 we decided together with our staff that we would close. The staff felt uncomfortable serving customers, even if just for takeout. Their opinions matter and we listened.

That day was like being in a dream. We automa­ tically fell back on our frozen entrées and started a social media campaign to let people know we were keeping the freezers stocked and taking orders for delivery.

In mid-April we took stock and reflected on events happening around us. We felt a sense of loss, of community and all the firsts for Le Finis we’ll be missing, including the Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival, Celebrate Your Awesome and Mother’s Day. Emails from our wedding couples started pouring in. (We did 30 weddings last year.) By May 1, I was recommending most weddings be postponed until 2021. We try hard not to feel overwhelmed thinking about financial losses. I wonder how long the

government programs will sustain us and others in the same predicament.

There was no time to wallow. Thanks to a sponsor, we started feeding St. John Ambulance staff twice a day for a few weeks. We took a job at an alcohol rehabilitation facility near Erin early in the pandemic because their chefs both had Covid-19. Heather Hayes, executive director of the Orangeville Food Bank, needed extra hands and trucks to get the Dufferin Food Share up and running – we called in some great friends. School closures meant the food bank had no more frozen meals made by students in Westside Secondary School’s excellent culinary program. With financial donations from community members and Highlands Rotary we keep them stocked.

We began feeding Dufferin paramedics and the night shift at Headwaters Health Care Centre weekly, thanks to our sponsors Paul and Joan Waechter. Our Dufferin community is the most important thing and I think we have really managed well during all this.

In May, Terry and I were able to spend more time with our families. Le Finis reopened for takeout mid-

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June. Like us, most business owners on Broadway had to lay off staff and run things alone. Without community support no one would be here, but these passionate entrepreneurs are tired. So if they need a couple of days off, don't be upset. They need to recharge.

It is crucial now to support local businesses.

We’re hoping to keep the rent paid and the lights on – so that when this is over there will still be great restaurants, salons and stores to visit.

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“You can’t get all in a twist. You have to roll with it” A hands-on Caledon interior designer gets it done from a distance.

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n early February, I was listening to the news and said to my assistant, “We need to get on this right away.” I knew we weren’t going to get out of this unscathed. How could we?

Even before talk of self-isolation, two women who work with me at McNeil Design Group Interiors got sick – not with Covid-19, but with the flu. Right then, we started divvying up the computers and equipment and preparing to work apart. Some have chosen not to work, and some hours have changed. You can’t get all in a twist.

You have to roll with it. And we’ve rolled with it pretty well.

But thank heavens for Zoom.

We told clients we were still moving forward, but in a virtual manner. We laid out how it would work and uploaded to the website a gallery showing what our inspiration boards and renderings look like.

Typically we would have an initial meeting with the clients to hear about the project. That’s now done over Zoom. At the next meeting, we talk them through a “check measure” of the room to make sure the design fits. While they’re doing this, we’re inputting the data.

Once the concept is approved, we present it virtually with a 3D walkthrough. Ahead of time, we will have sent the client boxed samples – of tiles and countertops, fixtures and fabrics – which we’ve always done.

Zooming with clients has actually been fun. With one couple, the husband was there in the kitchen with his wife’s pink measuring tape, ready to check and measure above the window, below the window.

He was so happy to do it because he was otherwise totally bored!

But it has been busy. Time chunking my calendar is important for me to get everything done. I write in prep time for videos, Zoom calls, design time, personal time. Even dinner prep and dinner time is on there. It’s a bing in the background that says it’s time to pivot.

The most challenging part of this is what I’ve put on myself. Early on I pledged daily social media updates, thinking I would be less busy. On Wednesdays I host live chats with fellow designers, and on Thursdays it’s product-knowledge sessions with suppliers.

The feedback has been wonderful. It has made people feel a little bit normal and more connected. I’m a big lover of community, and with everything going on, we’ve all got to make the best of it.

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Others come to visit the cats in our free-roaming cat rooms – just because they enjoy it or because they are helping to socialize some cats who are still shy with people.

Covid-19 changed everything! The shelter became a much more closed environment. We could no longer welcome groups of people. We had to close our doors to drop-in visitors and our wonderful volunteers. Potential adopters come by appointment, one person at a time, and each visitor is asked to put on a mask, gloves and a gown.

Within the shelter, all precautionary hygiene and personal protective measures are taken, with staff working reduced hours to take care of the animals.

Even with these measures in place, we knew we ran the risk that one of our staff would test positive for Covid-19 – and if that happened, we would all be

under quarantine. How would the animals be cared for then?

We created an emergency plan that called for members of the board of directors to step in, but without shelter experience they would not be able to manage our large shelter population. We put out calls on social media and our website, asking for people willing to foster our animals during these uncertain times. The community responded. Big time!

Very quickly, animals were placed in foster homes, and we were able to reduce the shelter population to something much more manageable. So far our staff have remained healthy and are taking advantage of fewer animals in-house to do some reorganizing, painting and small repairs.

We also continue to find permanent homes for our animals. Since March 15 we have found homes for 31 cats, 12 dogs and eight small animals.

Uncertain times like these call for people to rise to meet them, and they have! We are so grateful to our foster people, to all the donors who responded

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financially and with food and other shelter supplies, and to those who opened their hearts to offer permanent homes to our animals.

We look forward to the time when we will once again be able to welcome more visitors to the shelter.

We are fully aware that health precautions will change the way we all operate in public environments in the future, but somehow, we will all make it work.

“I’ve taken this time to focus on what I matters most” A Mono teen reassesses her idea of “normal.”

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am a Grade 10 student at Orangeville District Secondary School and the day before March Break I was working out with my friends in the school gym. We were all excited for the break to start, but had no idea how long it would turn out to be. It was later that day the extension of March Break was announced due to the global pandemic. Instead of celebrating as you might think, my friends and I were worried. Suddenly everything seemed serious.

During the next few weeks things felt very uncertain. But as time went by, I came to think it does no good to linger on the bad cards you’ve been dealt. If you ask me, the only way to make a bad situation worse is to give in to it. I know the virus has caused a lot of illness and despair for many people, but I’m also grateful that my family and friends are safe here in the country. So I decided to make the best of it. I’ve taken this time to focus on what matters most in this seemingly unpredictable world. Every day I like to take a deep breath and meditate, go for a walk, watch the clouds pass by, because pretty soon life is going to go back to normal and I don’t want this to have been just a missed opportunity.

I like to think of this break as a chance to slow down for a little while, a chance I’ve been given to reflect upon my normal life and ask myself, just how “normal” was it – stressing about the daily social pressures of a 15-year-old girl, spending such little time with family and more time at parties? With the days, months and seasons fading into each other, those things are no longer my concern.

Now I've been given the time to spend every day with my family, to paint the view from my kitchen table, to learn a new song on the piano, to forget about the pressures I felt to go out on a Friday night. (I also get to sleep in a lot now!)

The leaves have started to grow on the trees, the grass has started to pop up, and the thermo­ meter is finally in double digits. Summer is arriving, only broadening the number of potential activities I have to keep busy. So instead of being sad and bored, I've spent this break being thankful for the wonderful opportunity I've been given and what good timing it’s come with.

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hen Sarah Aston first wore a futuristic clear face shield to a grocery store in early April, she felt a twinge of embarrassment. She was the only person wearing a covering of any kind.

“People were looking at me,” the Mono realtor recalls. By May, she says, “I felt naked without one.”

This was the whirlwind pace at which the trajectory of mask wearing changed in Headwaters. Aston was an early adopter because her husband, auto parts manufacturer Chad Blough, designed and created the Easyshield in his Orangeville auto parts workshop after his core business ground to a halt. He has now sold more than 10,000 shields.

Blough’s quick pivot is just one of many instances of businesses and creators trying to keep the coronavirus out of our faces by quickly adapting to meet the demand for masks and shields. In doing so, they have become part of a larger narrative.

Throughout this pandemic, masks of all kinds have emerged as a universal, if mutable, symbol of the global crisis. First, as we

watched China and Italy, masks were an immediate signal telling us about the deadliness and contagion of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. By the time Covid-19 hit Canada, masks were shorthand for the frightening scarcity of personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers. Now, the mask signals a wearer’s sense of anxiety or of civic duty, or a mix of the two.

Through each iteration of the disease, quiet heroes among us have been working to help move us to the next stage. For some, this involved donating money and protective supplies to local hospitals. For those who work with their hands, it meant mobilizing the workshop or sewing room. Sewer and quilter AJ Grace-Cavey of Cobwebs & Caviar, her quilting shop in Shelburne, has been sourcing fabric and materials for others, and sewing masks and other items herself. She’s not surprised at how the community has problem solved: “People who are creative jump to it.”

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above, from left Orangeville’s RaDeana Montgomery is among many local quilters and sewers making masks for the community. CEO Alain Baird of Stitch It wears a blue surgical mask his company has started making. His nephew, Bolton chiropractor Ryan French, bought and donated 1,000 of these masks to the Region of Peel. The Easyshield face shield created by Mono auto parts manufacturer Chad Blough.

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Employees at Brampton robotics company MDA Corporation, many of whom live in Caledon and Dufferin, designed and produced face shields to donate to Headwaters Health Care Centre and others. Pictured from left are Emily Keates, Bill Reil, Michelle Skorupa, Lee Paul, Sheldon Cramp and Bruce Walker.

In March, companies and individuals scrambled to help out even before Headwaters Health Care Centre put out a call for donations. The hospital’s Sharon Hendry was asked to step away from her daily role as quality and patient experience specialist to co-ordinate the donations already flowing in, including medical-grade personal protective equipment such as N95 masks (so named because they filter out 95 per cent of airborne particles), as well as face shields and pleated surgical masks. She says the PPE donations came so fast that the hospital hasn’t been able to keep up with the tally.

Bruce Walker of Mono guided the donation to Headwaters of 250 face shields made by his employer, Brampton-based robotics company MDA Corporation. Felix and Marcel Mueller, owners of Orangeville’s Triple M Tool & Mfg., donated about 300 face shields they had retooled their equipment to produce. Jim Carson of Blackstock Ford in Orangeville gave 200 face shields, and Shelburne auto

parts manufacturer KTH supplied 7,000 surgical masks. Caledon’s Margot and Joe Crump sourced 185 N95 masks and nearly 25,000 surgical masks via their Brampton dog food company, Crumps’ Naturals. And the lists goes on.

Hendry says her team sends weekly inventories to the Ministry of Health.

In mid-May, a single week’s tally included more than 29,000 surgical masks, 134 N95 masks and 3,856 face shields. Enough, says Hendry, that the hospital has been able to reallocate many of these supplies to other local organizations in need.

As part of Peel Region’s mask drive, residents were asked to drop off supplies at three locations in the region, including the Caledon fire department headquarters in Caledon East. Bolton chiropractor Ryan French tapped into a supply chain very close to home – his father and uncle’s alterations chain, Stitch It, which has pivoted to making surgical masks.

French bought 1,000 to donate. “I’m so proud of what they’re doing. Everyone is doing what they can,” he says.

That’s also true of a group of Upper Grand District School Board

educators, including Len Guchardi, a teacher at Centre Dufferin District High School. In mid-March they redeployed their schools’ 3D printers, taking them home to print blue plantbased polymer frames. They’ve since donated more than 9,000 to hospitals and other facilities in Dufferin, Erin, Guelph and Waterloo. The plastic shields inserted in the frames are made from sheets used as overhead transparencies.

At the peak of the outbreak, Guchardi was printing 30 frames a day, often waking up at night to start a new batch. The group wanted to supplement hospital stocks until medical-grade supply chains were running smoothly.

When that started to happen, the group shifted their donations to other organizations such as nursing homes.

Locally Guchardi arranged donations of 150 shields to Headwaters Health Care Centre, 100 to Dufferin Oaks, 100 to Shelburne Residence and 50 to the Shelburne police department. “We are just doing our part. That’s what the community does,” he says.

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As the need for masks and shields for frontline workers was being met, the makers’ momentum began to turn to the needs of the broader community.

Local quilters and sewers couldn’t create medical-grade surgical masks for use in hospitals, but they could sew sturdy copies, with nose pinches and pockets for filters.

The Dufferin Piecemakers Guild has been the driving force behind many of these efforts. Guild members have been active in the community for 25 years, donating quilts and other items to local fire victims and various community groups, but the pandemic has been an all-hands-on-deck affair for dozens of guild members and community volunteers. “It’s part of our DNA as a quilting guild,” says co-president Oksana Slipenkyj. “It’s a historic time.

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– to become the logistics lead in Peel’s PPE drive. He says these citizen-led efforts were up and running so quickly that he had little time to set any expectations or goals. So far, donations in Peel have reached nearly 41,000 masks of all kinds, among other items.

“I’ve been reassured to know that in every area, everyone has stepped up.

If you don’t need your PPE, you share.

If you need, you get.”

$5 a mask. Funds raised through this stream are earmarked for donation to local nonprofit groups and to support community outreach programs. By early June the guild had raised $3,000 and donated proceeds to Dufferin Food Share, Shepherd’s Cupboard Food Bank, Choices Youth Shelter and Family Transition Place.

The second stream includes scrub caps, headbands, ear savers (fabric bands that hold the mask elastics together behind the head) and scrub bags, which were given to workers at Headwaters Heath Care Centre, as well as to staff at long-term care and retirement homes. And to mark Nursing Week, the guild donated to the hospital about 300 packages that included scrub caps and headbands labelled “We love nurses.”

Isolation gowns, the third stream, were donated to groups and agencies such as Community Living Dufferin, Dufferin Oaks and Cedar Heights Residential Living.

The guild, too, has lost track of numbers. Member and well-known local quilter Judy MacLeod figures they’ve created more than 800 masks, 900 scrub caps and 300 gowns, as well as 500 headbands and 170 ear savers.

All the fabric and nearly all additional materials have been donated, including the roughly 3,000 buttons used on some items. One woman donated a large antique cookie tin full of them, telling Judy, “This is three generations of buttons in here.”

Cobwebs & Caviar’s AJ Grace-Cavey was a major donor of materials and sewing time, even as she worried about the future of her small retail business.

She is also privately making masks for sale for $13. “Thank you, eight seasons of Modern Family and my incredible family,” she says. “My sewing room hasn’t seen this much action in years.”

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Of women like Slipenkyj, MacLeod and their network, Grace-Cavey says, “They are the strongest, sweetest, most altruistic people I know. So many said, ‘What do I have? What can I pull out?

Making something is more important than my needs.’ I’m honoured to be part of this group.”

Fellow sewer Janet Manschitz, also of Shelburne, has been sewing fabric masks ever since Canada’s chief public health officer Teresa Tam recommended their use when social distancing isn’t possible. Manschitz posted a callout on a local Facebook group and her cellphone started pinging immediately. “You couldn’t buy anything at that point,” she says.

At first, fabric was limited to what she had on hand. “It was, ‘You get what you get,’” she says. “I wasn't trying to be rude, but I had to say, ‘No, I don't have a black polka dot, sorry.’”

Manschitz lost count at 500. At first, she gave them away for free, but like most sewers she started asking for a donation – $10 each in her case – to cover her costs and make sure she could keep up with demand. To pay it forward, some buyers bulk up their donation – one woman paid $100 for two masks.

Manschitz also raises money for other local charities by holding online auctions. It has been rewarding, she says, but she is happy to be slowing down. “I’d get up at 8 a.m. and be in my sewing room until 2 p.m. I did this for three weeks solid. It was exhausting.”

What now?

By late May, many mask and shield makers had filled acute needs in our communities and, like Manschitz, were considering taking well-deserved breaks. For those of us still interested in stocking up on what looks as if it will become a wardrobe staple, other options abound. Chad Blough of Easyshield is producing three varieties: one that fits a baseball cap brim, one for construction caps and one for shorter-brimmed bump caps.

They come in packages of six for $20.

They’re worn by everyone from transit workers to staff at manufacturers, including cheese-maker Saputo.

And finding a fashion-statement black polka-dot version – or really, just about any print you fancy – is no longer a stretch. Many small businesses, including Shelburne’s Prim Pickins, Grand Valley’s CT Designs, and Orangeville’s Say It with Stacey and Go Yoga, have added masks to

their Etsy and online shopping sites.

RaDeana Montgomery of Orangeville started a new mask business (see her story among the “Pandemic Journals” at inthehills.ca), and Caledon artist Lucille Weber is giving away pay-itforward masks and sharing updates on the Village of Inglewood Association Facebook page.

At the same time, the symbolism attached to the mask continues to mutate. Is it a sign of respect for your fellow citizens, a statement of solidarity with frontline workers? Or is it an infringement on your personal freedom, as one line of debate goes, particularly in United States? During the Black Lives Matter protests in early June, masks did extra duty as canvases for powerful anti-racism slogans none of us will soon forget.

From the Lone Ranger to Batman, the Phantom of the Opera to Darth Vader, religious apparel to masquerade accessories, and the holdup bandits of old-time Westerns to contemporary terrorists, face coverings have always been heavily freighted with social and cultural symbolism: heroic, fun, frightening, controversial.

Nevertheless, in this current crisis, polls suggest most of us embrace masks, not as laden symbols but as the practical public health tools they are.

In May, a meta-analysis funded by the World Health Organization and published in The Lancet found that N95 and other similar respirator masks do indeed dramatically reduce the risk of infection from the coronavirus and should remain the gold standard for workers at hospitals and other high-risk locations. Surgical paper masks, too, substantially reduce the risk, though less dramatically than N95s, and homemade cloth masks are considered an effective choice for the general public.

So effective, they’re starting to be mandated here in Headwaters. As retail stores and other businesses serving the public began to reopen in Dufferin in mid-June, Nicole Mercer, medical officer of health for Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health, issued an order requiring them to refuse entry to customers or employees not wearing a mask – or be liable to fines.

Need another reason to mask up?

What if wearing one is a way to thank all the shield and mask makers who have been burning the midnight oil? Despite her fatigue, Manschitz, for one, is still taking orders. As she puts it, “My goal is to get a mask on everybody.”

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The easy-to-use maps and listings are designed to help you find the very best vegetables, fruit, meats and craft beverages that farms in Caledon, Dufferin and Erin have to offer – whether it’s direct from their farms, through a CSA, or at a weekly farmers’ market or independent retailer.

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Imagining the Future b y bren t k l a s sen Remember back in early March when life was still pretty normal? Our cider­tasting room opened up and we welcomed and served our customers. I even recall shaking hands with some of the new ones. But of course now it’s become a tired cliché – none of us can recall a time when things changed more drastically than they have since then.

And yet, as the fabric of business­as­usual unravelled, spring carried on. The maples ran sap, the leeks and fiddleheads poked through the forest floor, the peepers squealed their delight, the pastures tinted green, and here at our farm, nine new piglets joined the fold.

So we wonder, amid the disruption and heartbreak, what future is being born in this moment? Many people are turning inward and rediscovering the generational arts of cooking, baking, sewing, gardening and so on. And while necessity may be driving this renaissance, there’s joy to be found in these activities.

We farmers have an important role to play in supporting our community through this time. We are the stewards of the land and the keepers of timeless knowledge and techniques that coax life from it. We are a community of practice that connects people to land, to animals, to plants, to food. But mostly importantly, we are animators who dare to imagine a more beautiful agriculture. The world needs us badly right now – our expertise, the food we grow, the sense of wonder with which we embrace the world.

Our farm’s tagline, “Reconnect to simple wonders,” has never felt more relevant, and it challenges us to create opportunities for our community to experience that reconnection.

It’s difficult to do in times of social distancing, but not impossible. From sharing farm life on social media to encouraging customers to spend time in the forest when they pick up their orders, we will always look for ways to celebrate the simple wonders of the farm.

And like so many local farmers, we are deeply grateful for the ways in which our community and our customers have supported us through all this. We are motivated by your encour­ agement, and sustained by your purchases. For all of this, our most heartfelt thanks.

We look forward to continuing this conversation. Let’s imagine the hopeful future that is being born in this moment. Imagine it, then plant the seeds to make it so.

Brent Klassen lives with his family at Heartwood Farm & Cidery in Ospringe, where they make artisanal craft ciders and maple syrup, and raise grass-fed cows and pigs. heartwoodfarm.ca

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Albion Hills Community Farm agri-entertainment, on-farm store, you pick Caledon 16555 Humber Station Rd Karen Hutchinson, manager 647-981-6281 albionhillscommunityfarm.org Seasonal vegetables, garlic and honey; allotment gardens with plots for rent; education programs related to chickens, bees, compost and soil health, worms and hedgerows Jun–Oct : Thu 4–7 or by appointment

Amaranth Springs Farm farm gate Amaranth 554090 MonoAmaranth Townline Deb Walks, Chris Kowalchuk 519-942-4716 amaranthsprings.ca Select seasonal vegetables, pasture chicken, grass-fed beef, grass-fed goat Call ahead for farm-gate order pickup; delivery available for a fee

Austerfield Apiary Honey & Botanicals csa, off-farm retail, online order Melancthon 581099 County Rd 17 Rita and Matt Chantree 519-925-5010 jacked@sympatico.ca Also at Shelburne Fresh Variety, Shelburne Foodland, Lennox Farms, Harmony Whole Foods Market Unpasteurized honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, propolis, honeycomb, beeswax bags, soap, lotion bars By appointment only, but hours are flexible; phone ordering available; check Facebook page

57 Albion Orchards agri-entertainment, on-farm store, you pick Caledon 14800 Innis Lake Rd Scott Lunau 905-584-0354 albionorchards.com Apples, pears, baked goods, Christmas trees, cider, honey, maple syrup, vegetables, sweet corn, pumpkins Aug–Oct : 10–6 daily; Nov–Dec : Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat–Sun 10–5

30 Am Braigh Farm on-farm store Mono 873393 5th Line EHS Jamie Richards 519-217-8549 ambraighfarm.com Also at Hockley General Store Year-round vegetables, eggs, sourdough bread, soups and entrées by local chefs using Am Braigh produce; meat from Bennington Hills Open daily 8–8 year-round

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1 Kidd Farms 2 Lennox Farm 3 Peace Valley Ranch 4 Not So Hollow Farm 5 Austerfield Apiary Honey & Botanicals 6 Skye Line Farms 7 Fiddle Foot Farm 8 Lions Share Farm 9 Besley Country Market 11 Connie’s Kitchen and Fresh Produce 12 Maple Grove Farm 13 Comolea Farms 14 Thompson Acres 15 Grand River Gardens 15 Landman Gardens and Bakery 16 Bennington Hills Farm 17 Fresh and Tasty Mushrooms 18 Jenala Farms 19 Amaranth Springs Farm 20 Islandview Farm Market 21 Providence Meadows 22 Rockcliffe Farm 23 Peaceful Valley Farm 24 Seventh Heaven Apiary 26 Breedon’s Maple Syrup 27 Sheldon Creek Dairy 29 Reid’s Potatoes & Farm Market 30 Am Braigh Farm 31 Knollbrook Farms 32 Berrys4U 33 Calehill Farms 34 Zócalo Organics 35 Everdale Non-Profit Teaching Farm 36 4th Line Cattle Co. 37 Heartwood Farm & Cidery 38 Paradise Farms 40 Heatherlea Farm Shoppe 41 HoneyComb Cottage Bee Company 42 Forks of the Credit Honey 43 Pure Caledon Hills Honey 45 Riverdale Farm & Forest 46 Horseshoe Hill Farm 47 Davis Feed & Farm Supply 48 Rock Garden Farms 49 Albion Hills Community Farm 50 Mount Wolfe Farm 52 Campbell’s Cross Farm 53 Downey’s Farm Market 54 Downey’s Strawberry and Apple Farm 55 Dixie Orchards 56 Sandhill Farms 57 Albion Orchards 58 Kooner Farms 59 Humbervalley Honey CRAFT BEVERAGES 10 Escarpment Gardens 25 Windrush Estate Winery 28 Adamo Estate Winery 37 Heartwood Farm & Cidery 39 GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co. 44 Spirit Tree Estate Cidery 51 Badlands Brewing Company 53 Downey’s Farm Market FARMERS’ MARKETS A Creemore Farmers’ Market B Alliston RURBAN Market C Orangeville Farmers’ Market D Erin Farmers’ Market I N

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32 Berrys4U farm gate, you pick East Garafraxa 064383 County Rd 3 Eric Henneberg 519-993-4437 berrys4u.wordpress.com Also at Orangeville Farmers’ Market Strawberries, raspberries : seasonal pick your own and picked Check website for hours

9 Besley Country Market farm gate Shelburne 716 Victoria St Evan Besley besleycountrymarket.ca Seasonal vegetables, tomatoes May–Nov : 8–7 daily

Four-season gardener Jamie Richards checks the luscious lettuce crop at Am Braigh Farm in Mono.

He sells his produce year-round at his small farm-gate store.

calehillfarms.ca Also at Erin Farmers’ Market

26 Breedon’s Maple Syrup on-farm store, online order Adjala 3662 Concession Rd 3 Dawn and Kent Breedon 705-435-5269 breedonsmaplesyrup.com Also at Hockley General Store Maple syrup, maple butter, maple sugar Feb–Apr : Mon–Sun 10–5; off-season call ahead; order through website or by phone to schedule on-farm pickup

33 Calehill Farms farm gate, online order Orton 9319 Erin–East Garafraxa Townline Brittney Livingston, Andrew Mazurka 519-820-1337

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Whole chicken and chicken cuts, including breast, thigh, drumsticks, wings and sausage By appointment only; online ordering available

Kim Mournahan 519-939-0321 comoleafarms.com Scottish highland grass-fed, pastureborn and -raised beef By appointment only

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Campbell’s Cross Farm you pick Caledon 3634 King St Josie and Michael Gallo 416-294-7642 campbellscrossfarm.com Honey, sunflower oil Seasonal : check website for farm-to-table events; Aug : sunflower events; Sep– Oct : fall harvest only : phone or email for pre-order pickup

Connie’s Kitchen and Fresh Produce farm gate, online order Mono 487207 30 Siderd Connie Arteaga 705-715-6396 shop.connieskitchen.ca Also at Alliston RURBAN Market Seasonal vegetables, tomatoes by the bushel, preserves, free-range eggs, Italian baking, maple syrup, honey Call ahead or order through website for curbside pickup and delivery

13 Comolea Farms on-farm store Grand Valley 115026 27–28 Siderd

47 Davis Feed & Farm Supply on-farm store Caledon 15770 Mountainview Rd John Davis, Sean Davis 905-584-2880 davisfeed.ca Eggs, pumpkins, squash, honey, sunflower seed, sunflower oil, flowers Check website for store hours; phone orders, delivery and farm-gate pickup available for all products

55 Dixie Orchards agri-entertainment, on-farm store, you pick Caledon 14309 Dixie Rd Paul and Lynnette Gray 905-838-5888 dixieorchards.com Apples, pears, plums, pumpkins, squash, market and bakery, wagon rides, corn maze, farm animals, fall décor Sep–Oct : 10–5:30 daily

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53 Downey’s Farm Market agri-entertainment, on-farm store, you pick Caledon 13682 Heart Lake Rd Nathan and Darlene Downey 905-838-2990 downeysfarm.com Baked goods, fruit wines, strawberries, raspberries, pumpkins, corn, farm animals, play area, events May 5–Oct 31 : 9–5 daily; Nov : Fri–Sun 10–5; Dec 1–24 : 10–5 daily

54 Downey’s Strawberry and Apple Farm farm gate, you pick Caledon 13707 Heart Lake Rd Greg and Melissa Downey 905-838-4777 downeysupickfarm.ca Pick-your-own strawberries, raspberries and apples Check website for seasonal hours

Everdale Non-Profit Teaching Farm csa Hillsburgh 5812 6th Line Karen Campbell-Dandy, youth director and founder 519-855-4859 everdale.org Certified organic Harvest shares year-round, home delivery, non-profit farm growing food for food banks, volunteering, farm school, farm camp, farmer training Mon–Fri 9–5

7 Fiddle Foot Farm csa, online order Mulmur 796530 3rd Line EHS Graham Corbett, Amy Ouchterlony 519-925-3225 fiddlefootfarm.com Also at Orangeville Farmers’ Market Organically and biodynamically grown vegetables, CSA shares, organically fed and pastureraised chicken and pork By appointment only; check website for custom online orders

Proud to serve and support our community Garden Foods continues to serve the community with the same level of excellence and trust we have built over the past 38 years. Here you will find carefully selected fresh produce, breads and meats, specialty goods, and fully prepared quality meals cooked in-house – everything you’ll need to enjoy delicious meals at home.

Mondays to Fridays 8am–7pm Saturdays and Sundays 8am–6pm Online ordering with curbside pickup available for seniors and the immune-compromised.

42 Forks of the Credit Honey farm gate Caledon 1354 Forks of the Credit Rd Bob Darrell 519-927-3334 bobbee@interlog.com Unheated and unfiltered summer and autumn liquid honey, cut honeycomb honey, beeswax Aug–Nov : morning–evening (weather permitting)

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36 4th Line Cattle Co. farm gate, on-farm store Hillsburgh 5682 4th Line Matt and Tamaran Mousseau 519-766-6079 4thlinecattleco.ca Also at Erin and Orangeville farmers’ markets Texas longhorn and Hereford steaks, roasts, extra lean ground beef, stewing beef, burgers, sausages, pasture-raised heritage pork, free-range eggs By appointment only

17 Fresh and Tasty Mushrooms farm gate, online order Amaranth 475226 County Rd 11 Sean Declerc, Shannon Coleclough 519-925-3215 freshandtastymushrooms.com Specialty mushrooms and wild mushrooms; all-natural produce Sundays by appointment; online ordering available through localline.ca/freshand-tasty-mushrooms

15 Grand River Gardens csa Grand Valley 322345 Concession Rd 6–7 Elaine O’Sullivan 289-990-7973 www.grandrivergardens.ca Certified naturally grown Organically grown vegetables and herbs, CSA shares CSA share pickup on farm : Thu 4–7; delivery option available Accepting new members

37 Heartwood Farm & Cidery agri-entertainment, farm gate, on-farm store, online order

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Erin 5438 2nd Line Brent Klassen and Val Steinmann 416-527-4352 heartwoodfarm.ca Small-batch craft cider, grassfed beef, maple syrup Online order for pickup or delivery; check website for tasting room hours, on-farm learning and retreat experiences, and farmers’ markets

40 Heatherlea Farm Shoppe café, on-farm store, online order Caledon 17049 Winston Churchill Blvd Pat and Gord McArthur 519-927-5902 heatherlea.ca Artisan dry-aged Angus beef, fresh meats, coffee, pies, cookies, tarts, cheese, produce, heat-and-serve meals, local foods Year-round Tue–Sun; check website for hours

NA The Heritage Bee Co. csa, off-farm retail, online order Mulmur Debbie Gray 705-466-2337 heritagebee.com Also at Bank Café, Museum of Dufferin, Concession Road Mercantile, stockists across Ontario Certified B Corp, Certified Naturally Grown Apiary Premium 100% Ontario honeys: liquid, creamed and infused creamed; infused flavours include ginger, lemon, cinnamon, vanilla, dark chocolate; seed bombs, beeswax, gift sets Farm-gate pickup available for online orders only (use code localpickup at checkout and pick up curbside)

NA Hidden Meadows Farm off-farm retail Caledon village Deborah Robillard, Andrew Sharko 519-927-9941

facebook.com/ hiddenmeadowsfarmcaledon Also at Orangeville (summer and winter) Farmers’ Market Garlic, tomatoes, peas, beets, beans, carrots, radishes, herbs, pickles, jams, preserves, perogies, pesto, granola Phone and email ordering; local delivery available

41 HoneyComb Cottage Bee Company – Belfountain farm gate, on-farm store Caledon 17162 Olde Main St J.L. Marshall facebook.com/honeycomb cottagebeecompanybelfountain Also at Caledon Mountain Wildlife Supplies, Inglewood Antique Market Raw local honey, pure honeycomb, raw beeswax, creams and lip balms, candles, baskets, honeybee nucs and queens By appointment (contact via email or Facebook)

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Islandview Farm Market farm gate Mono 633520 Hwy 10 Charles and Susan Hughson 519-941-9098 islandviewfarmmarket@gmail.com Certified organic Garlic, vegetables, pies, tarts, preserves, honey, crafts Jun–mid-Oct : weekends 9–6; watch for trailer

46 Horseshoe Hill Farm farm gate Caledon East 15691 Horseshoe Hill Rd Linda Gillstrom 519-927-1715 Sweet corn, squash, zucchini, garlic, cherry tomatoes, pie pumpkins, small–jumbo pumpkins, gourds, jalapeño peppers Aug–Oct : Sat, Sun 11–4

59 Humbervalley Honey farm gate Bolton 255 Glasgow Rd Larry Zembal 416-708-0276 lzembal@rogers.com Raw honey Mon–Sat 9–6; call first

18 Jenala Farms on-farm store, you pick Amaranth 475080 County Rd 11 Ken and Faye Brett 519-939-1171 jenalafarms.com Pick-your-own and ready-picked strawberries. Growing the best strawberries for over 20 years.

Hours vary depending on availability; check website or Facebook page

1 Kidd Farms farm gate Melancthon 438162 4th Line John, Nancy, Bruce Kidd 519-925-6453 kiddfarms@gmail.com Also at Shelburne Home Hardware, Masonville Store, Shelburne Fresh Variety Maple syrup Mon–Sat approx. 8–8; call ahead

31 Knollbrook Farms farm gate East Garafraxa 142239 County Rd 5 James and Laura Masters, Wendy Masters 519-928-3354 knollbrookfarms.ca Beef, chicken (seasonal), lamb Mon–Sat, by chance or appointment

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58 Kooner Farms on-farm store, online order, you pick Caledon 6824 Healey Rd Indy Kooner 416-858-4639 koonerfarms.com Raw honey, free-range eggs, seasonal vegetables, pick-your-own vegetables, sweet corn and more May–Dec : dawn to dusk; order online (website, Facebook, Instagram) for delivery or farm-gate pickup

15 Landman Gardens and Bakery on-farm store, online order Grand Valley 322345 Concession Rd 6–7 Rebecca Landman 519-938-6163 landmangardens.ca Also at Orangeville Farmers’ Market, Hockley General Store, Grand Valley Food Town Pork, chicken, eggs, turkey, pickles, hams, salsas, honey, granola, meat pies, fruit pies, baked goods Check website for hours; phone and online ordering available for curbside pickup

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Levendale Farms csa Grand Valley Selene Richens 519-994-7271 levendalefarms.ca Also at Orangeville Farmers’ Market Seasonal vegetables and fruit, apple cider, pork, beef, honey By appointment only

Maple Grove Farm agri-entertainment, on-farm store, you pick Mulmur 936215 Airport Rd Chris and Robyn Wallace 705-435-6195 maplegrovefarm.ca Apples, asparagus, blueberries, potatoes, pumpkins, strawberries, sweet corn Jun–Oct : check website for hours (ready picked and you pick); Nov–May : by appointment

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2 Lennox Farm on-farm store, online order Melancthon 518024 County Rd 124 French family lennoxfarm.ca Weekly produce boxes and many add-ons; homegrown and local fruit and vegetables, local beef, pork, lamb, baking, preserves, eggs, cheese, dairy Sat–Tue : order online for curbside pickup the next week

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Lions Share Farm farm gate, online order Mulmur 837023 4th Line East Hilchey family 519-925-2222 lionssharefarm@gmail.com Also at Creemore Farmers’ Market Seasonal vegetables and fruit : spinach, leafy greens, radishes, carrots, beets and more Email to sign up for weekly flyer; pickup at farm gate

50 Mount Wolfe Farm csa, online order Caledon 10054 Old Church Rd Crandall/Haney/Showell sisters 647-335-8897 mountwolfefarm.ca Summer and winter vegetables, maple syrup, honey, garlic, eggs, bread, seasonal fruit, preserves, microgreens, home-care products, free-range chicken

Weekly pickup in summer; biweekly in winter; online ordering with on-farm pickup or delivery service

4 Not So Hollow Farm agri-entertainment, farm gate, on-farm store, online order Mulmur 838369 4th Line E Viki Reynolds, Ian Payne 705-466-6290 notsohollowfarm.ca Food forest, permaculture and pollinator plants, seasonal vegetables and flowers, honey products, vegan and glutenfree farm-made condiments Check website for hours; currently offering only online sales with contactless pickup

NA Ontario Honey Creations off-farm retail, online order Amaranth Sarah Allinson-Chorabik 647-400-8507 myhoneycreations.com

23 Peaceful Valley Farm farm gate Mono 934409 Airport Rd 519-942-1804 Brenda Bot and Tom Peters peacefulvalleyfarm.ca

PE TE PATERSON

Honey, maple syrup, black Angus beef, farm-fresh eggs, roaster chickens, preserves, baked goods Summer : open daily; porch pickup and drop-off; phone order and delivery available

3 Peace Valley Ranch agri-entertainment, online order Mulmur 638135 Prince of Wales Rd

Also at Orangeville (summer and winter) Farmers’ Market, Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, Spirit Tree Estate Cidery, Landman Gardens and Bakery Honey, honeycomb, honey vinegars, mead (honey wine), spicy hot honey, creamed honey: plain, cinnamon, cocoa, lemon, ginger, lavender, orange, rose

Cosack family 519-925-6628 pvrbeef.ca Premium grass-finished black Angus freezer beef; sides and split sides available by special order delivered to your door; check website

Online ordering available for farm-gate pickup or delivery (for orders $30+)

By appointment only

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Paradise Farms off-farm store Erin 2 Thompson Cres, Unit 1 519-315-8000 paradisefarmsbistro.com At Paradise Farms Prime Beef Boutique Locally raised beef without added hormones, antibiotic-free feed, many other organic products Sun 11–4, Mon–Wed 10–5, Thu 10–6, Fri 10–7, Sat 10–6

www.spirittreecider.com

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Curry family 519-942-9505 providencemeadowsfarm@ gmail.com Year-round free-range eggs, seasonal heritage vegetables, pumpkins, maple syrup, beef, chicken, turkey, pork Self-serve; call ahead or visit for meat

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Through the good times & Through the hard times A new dawn is waking

It’s back to basics!

ATTAINABLE SUSTAINABLE The lost art of self-reliant living Kris Bordessa

eat • make • clean grow • farm • trek

www.booklore.ca 121 First Street, Orangeville 519-942-3830 booklore.ca

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Proudly made with 100% Ontario apples.

Locally Made, Naturally Refreshing.

43 Pure Caledon Hills Honey farm gate Caledon 17895 Heart Lake Rd Paul Reader 519-927-3376 purecaledonhillshoney.com Honey, bee pollen, beeswax, honeycomb Mon–Sat 8–6

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Reid’s Potatoes & Farm Market on-farm store Mono 833153 4th Line Gerry Reid 519-940-4096 reidspotatoes.com Potatoes, vegetables, eggs, chicken, pork, beef, jam, honey, flowers, maple syrup, pies, quilts and more Open daily year-round

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Riverdale Farm & Forest agri-entertainment, csa, farm gate, online order Inglewood 15707 McLaughlin Rd Owen Goltz 905-588-0085 riverdalefarmandforest.ca Vegetables, pears, freerange eggs, cut flowers, workshops, tours, farm stays, cowboy dining and coffee Jun–Oct : reservations; online ordering available

22 Rockcliffe Farm on-farm store Mono 388114 Mono Centre Rd

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Bezak family 905-505-6650 rockcliffefarm.ca Grass-fed, non-GMO black Angus beef, chicken, eggs, pork, lamb, seasonal vegetables, bread, honey, jam, etc.

Check website for hours

48 Rock Garden Farms on-farm store, you pick Caledon East 16930 Airport Rd Iuglio and Galati families 905-584-9461 rockgardenfarms.ca Fresh fruit, vegetables, freerange eggs, maple syrup, homemade preserves, sauces, home-baked pies Mar 31–Oct 31 : 8–6 daily

56 Sandhill Farms farm gate Caledon 5381 King St Carmen and Marvee Cesario 416-574-0427 sandhillfarms.ca Also at Erin Farmers’ Market Seasonal vegetables By appointment only

24 Seventh Heaven Apiary farm gate Mono 954335 7th Line EHS Mark van Trigt 519-941-4195 seventh.heaven@sympatico.ca Raw honey, comb honey, beeswax, cinnamon honey, beekeeping consultation Open daily year-round; self-serve or call ahead

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Sheldon Creek Dairy agri-entertainment, on-farm store, online order Adjala 4316 Concession Rd 5 den Haan family 705-434-0404 sheldoncreekdairy.ca Also at many local retailers – check map on website for locations Milk, yogurt, kefir, cheese, ice cream, flavoured milk, meat, pies, preserves, baked goods 10–6 daily; online ordering available (check website) for pickup

Thompson Acres csa, farm gate Grand Valley 362027 Concession Rd 8–9 Trevor and Stacy Thompson 226-979-3966 facebook.com/thompsonacres1 Seasonal vegetables, sunflowers, microgreens, freerange eggs, pasture-raised chicken, pork and beef By appointment only

6 Skye Line Farms online order Mulmur 556389 Mulmur– Melancthon Townline Jules and Darren Smith 705-440-3407 facebook.com/skyelinespecs Naturally raised, hormonefree, grass-fed and -finished beef (available in 30–40 lb boxes), boxed lamb By appointment only; call anytime

NA Speers Quality Meats online order Arthur Linda Cunningham 226-820-1482 speersqualitymeats.ca Also at Healthy Cravings, Ray’s 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery, The Hatter, Black Birch Naturally raised, hormoneand antibiotic-free Angus beef, air-chilled chicken, pork, lamb, turkey Free home delivery

NA Toad Hole Farm farm gate Mulmur Niels Pearson, Rebekah Jamieson 519-766-9090 toadholefarm.ca Also at Orangeville Farmers’ Market 100% grass-fed and grassfinished organic beef Call to arrange pickup or free home delivery

www.ambraighfarm.com 4TH LINE CATTLE CO.

PASTURE RAISED MEATS Local, sustainable pastureraised and grass-fed beef and heritage pork you can trust from farm to fork.

34 Zócalo Organics csa, online order Hillsburgh 5881 3rd Line Bethany Klapwyk, Seb Ramirez 226-821-0572 zocaloorganics.ca Also at FanJoy Vegetable boxes, including carrots, garlic, salad, spinach, tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus and more Jun–Oct : CSA and custom order pickup Sat afternoons at farm (check website and social media for updates); online ordering available

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4T HL I N E C AT T L E C O . C A 519-766-6079 HILLSBURGH ONTARIO

ALBION HILLS COMMUNITY FARM GROWING FOOD, GARDENS, ECOLITERACY & COMMUNITY

www.albionhillscommunityfarm.org Learn more at albionhillscommunityfarm.org

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CRAFT BEVERAGES 28 Adamo Estate Winery on-farm restaurant, on-farm store Mono 793366 3rd Line EHS Adamo family 519-942-3969 adamoestate.com Also at select restaurants Chardonnay, pinot noir, riesling, gamay noir, cabernet franc, vidal, chardonnay musqué, Maréchal Foch, merlot, l’Acadie blanc Mon–Thu 10–4, Fri 9–9, Sat 9–6, Sun 9–4 (hours change through summer; check website)

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Badlands Brewing Company on-farm store, online order Caledon 13926 Chinguacousy Rd Troy Baxter, Michael Nuttall, Grace Wilkinson badlandsbrewing.ca Fresh craft beer Sat 12–5; order online by 7pm Fri for Sat pickup

Downey’s Farm Market on-farm store Caledon 13682 Heart Lake Rd Nathan and Darlene Downey 905-838-2990 downeysfarm.com Fruit wines May 5–Oct 31 : 9–5 daily; Nov : Fri–Sun 10–5; Dec 1–24 : 10–5 daily

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Caledon Hills Brewing Company off-farm retail, online order Caledon Riedelsheimer family 416-529-3186 caledonhillsbrewing.com Also at local pubs and restaurants, the Beer Store, liquor stores (check website) Bohemian Pilsner, Vienna Lager, Deadly Dark By appointment only; contactfree delivery (check website)

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Melinda and Don McArthur with their kids Kayleigh, James and Chloe and their black Angus cattle at the McArthur family’s Heatherlea Farm Shoppe in Caledon.

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Escarpment Gardens online order Mono 487151 30th Siderd Joey Lemieux escarpmentgardens.ca Also at Market in the Mills, Top Hat Tea Room, Natural Choice, Sideroad Farm Store and farmers’ markets : Orangeville, Erin Mills and Barrie (winter) Certified naturally grown herbal teas By appointment only; order through website for farm-gate pickup

37 Heartwood Farm & Cidery agri-entertainment, farm gate, on-farm store, online order Erin 5438 2nd Line 416-527-4352 heartwoodfarm.ca Small-batch craft cider

Order online for pickup or delivery; check website for tasting room hours, on-farm learning and retreat experiences, and farmers’ markets

NA Pommies Cider Co. off-farm retail Caledon Lindsay and Nick Sutcliffe 905-857-5432 pommies.com At LCBO, bars, restaurants, Sobeys, Loblaws, other grocery stores Pommies Original Cider, Pommies Farmhouse Cider, Pommies Mimosa Cider, Pommies Sangria Cider, Pommies Cranberry Cider Mon–Fri 9–5

44 Spirit Tree Estate Cidery on-farm store, you pick Caledon 1137 Boston Mills Rd Thomas Wilson 905-838-2530

SHEENA SWIT ZER AND L AUR A GOULDING, 4 - H ONTARIO

spirittreecider.com Also at many local stores Feast Ontario certified Sweet and alcoholic cider, artisan bread, pastries, pies, cookies, jams, preserves, apples; takeout menu and pizza Farm shop : Wed 10–4, Thu–Sat 10–8, Sun 10–4

25 Windrush Estate Winery agri-entertainment, on-farm store, online order Adjala 3100 Concession Rd 3 J.C. Pennie, Marilyn Field 905-729-0060 windrushestatewinery.com Also at Millcroft Inn, Mono Cliffs Inn, Terra Cotta Inn, Taste of Freedom, The Consulate, Black Birch, Devil’s Pulpit, Mrs. Mitchell’s VQA pinot grigio, VQA pinot noir, VQA chardonnay, VQA rosé Sat 10–4 or by appointment; online ordering, phone ordering, delivery, farm-gate pickup available

FARMERS’ MARKETS Note: Shopping restrictions may evolve over the season.

Check websites.

B Alliston RURBAN Market Sat 8–2, Jun 6–Oct 31 Alliston Centre St and Victoria St E rurban.ca Regular market, onsite sales

A Creemore Farmers’ Market Sat 8:30–noon, Jun 27–Oct 10 Creemore 139 Mill St Creemore Springs Brewery parking lot creemorefarmersmarket.ca Order and prepay online; curbside pickup; no onsite sales

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Erin Farmers’ Market Fri 4–6, Jun 26–Sep 25 Erin 109 Main St McMillan Park erinfarmersmarket.ca Order and prepay online, curbside pickup; no onsite sales

C Orangeville Farmers’ Market Sat 9–noon, Jun 13–Oct 24 Orangeville 96 Broadway parking lot orangevillefarmersmarket.ca Order and prepay online; scheduled pickup time; drive-by or curbside collection; onsite sales

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Eat local. Use the Farm Fresh guide to make new connections. Endorse the Food Charter and join our mailing list for local food news.

Our local food system is

strong. resilient. adaptive.

VISION

The Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance (HFFA) envisions a food system that is productive, sustainable, transparent, and fair; supports the health and wellbeing of our residents and food providers; and contributes to the prosperous and equitable economy.

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H E A LT H A N D WELLBEING

We value a food system that reduces its environmental footprint through the responsible management of soil, water, air, energy, and waste. HFFA hosts networking and learning opportunities for farmers to discuss regenerative agriculture and other ecological farming practices. Urban harvest and food rescue programs minimize food waste.

We value food as a celebration of our agricultural heritage, cultural diversity and community connections.

Food brings us together. Fall fairs, farm tours, cultural events and our own winter and summer dinner series celebrate our area’s food culture.

All now endeavour to connect our communities in new ways.

We value the role of healthy food in promoting mental wellness, healthy growth and development and the prevention of lifestylerelated diseases. Preventive health care is more important than ever.

HFFA is working on our Big Fresh Goal to see Farm to School activity in all 50 Headwaters schools by 2025.

FOOD ACCESS AND EQUIT Y

A G R I C U LT U R A L S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y

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We value everyone’s basic right to afford and physically access healthy food. Area food banks, partner organizations and eager volunteers are collaborating to address increased demand due to job losses and student nutrition in the face of school closures.

We value a diverse and prosperous farming community. Advocacy groups and all levels of government are working on ways to ensure agriculture and food businesses adjust, survive and thrive in a new reality, through supportive policies, financial supports and action in the field.

We value the role of food and farming businesses in the Headwaters economy. Farmers, economic development representatives and passionate citizens are exploring ways to help adjust to exploding demand for local food, including the possibility of a regional food hub.

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HFFA is a Project of Headwaters Communities In Action, Making Life Better Together

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summer’s new normal Shopping shifts, beer pie – and the rise of the takeout menu

BY JANICE QUIRT

Waste not

Staples saviours

Many of us have become vegetable gardeners now.

Here in the hills, we’re spoiled with top-notch local food shops, many of which quickly added online ordering and touchless pickup this spring. One twist we didn’t see coming: Everyone from artisanal shops to restaurants and food services jumped in to hack their own supply chains and add meat boxes and other staples to their virtual shelves. Bravo.

Which means there’s a good

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chance there will be bumper

Here’s a sampling of our finds:

crops in our backyards.

Enter Orangeville’s Urban Harvest Program, run by the town’s Sustainable Orangeville committee.

They’re asking professional and amateur growers – of fruit and vegetables – to consider donating some of their excess bounty to food banks and

Rosemont General Store in Mulmur shut down table service, but added basics like flour and produce to their solid takeout lineup of frozen dinners, fresh baked goods and hot meals – including pizza. Just as the heatwaves hit, they opened a soft-serve ice cream takeout window for socially distanced cones. Don’t want to linger?

Take a tub to go. (We consider that a staple. Don’t judge.)

Philadelphia Kitchen in Orangeville connected customers to hefty quantities of hard-to-find yeast and flour. Nearby restaurant Deja Vu Diner jumped on Facebook to offer frozen meat boxes, clever DIY pizza and cookie kits, and farm-to-table goodies from Hockley’s Peaceful Valley Farm, including eggs, fresh cinnamon buns and apple fritters. Orangeville’s Lavender Blue Catering added basic groceries (Texas toast anyone?) to their Interested in prepared food menus. Nifty Nook Restaurant in something Mono added meat boxes big enough to feed families mentioned here? Find all summer. Even Caledon’s healthy delivery service, links to social Temple Nutrition, added grocery boxes to their lineup.

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New Horning’s Mills spot Market in the Mills hit its stride providing the four Ps – pickles, pizza, patties and pork – and more. Look for steaks and chicken fresh from Collingwood’s 4M farms.

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One thing this pandemic has taught us is that good deeds grow like weeds in these hills. But they taste way better (sorry, dandelions). We’ve heard about too many free meals and groceries to mention. One standout hero – Indian food stalwart Curry Mantra in Orangeville offered weekly “courtesy meals” free to those experiencing illness, isolation or food scarcity.

Mono’s 10 and 10 Garden Centre gave away seed potatoes if you pledged to grow them for food banks. Orangeville’s Philadelphia Kitchen, Fromage and others donated meals to Choices Youth Shelter. Shelburne’s Dufferin Public House made and delivered meals for staff at the hard hit Shelburne Residence and Dufferin Oaks Long-Term Care Home.

Headwaters Health Care Centre was the ultimate locus of the local food-is-love movement, with hardworking staff regularly enjoying free meals – sponsored by companies, individuals or customer donations. A huge roster of providers included Orangeville’s food truck Paco’s Tacos, 241 Pizza, Wicked Shortbread, Lavender Blue, Starbucks and Pita Pit. ClubLink, owner of Caledon Woods Golf Club in Bolton, sent meals, as did Mono’s Absolute Catering.

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Lennox Farm north of Shelburne is known for their spring rhubarb and peas and their fall Brussels sprouts, both as a commercial grower and at their farm stand.

But as summer gets rolling, we’re looking to them for fresh zucchini to grill (and spiralize!).

Watch for new ideas sprouting from local farmers like so many summer vegetables. Both Zócalo Organics in Hillsburgh and Mount Wolfe Farm in Caledon have launched online stores and were selling seedlings. Hillsburgh’s 4th Line Cattle Co. introduced heritage pork and free-range eggs to their lineup and nearby Everdale added cider and beer sales, harvest share delivery and a wholesale food-buying program.

They also offered their grounds for secluded nature walks. (For our complete farm and farmers’ market listings, see Headwaters Farm Fresh on page 45.)

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Rustik’s beer pie A special hurrah to Rustik Local Bistro in Orangeville for treating customers to a pared-down-yet-gourmet takeaway menu including their juicy cheeseburgers. But their breakaway hit turned out to be dessert – beer pie. The rich chocolate and beer (from Caledon’s GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co.) pudding pie is topped with marshmallow meringue and sits on a pretzel and graham cracker crust. “I think it’s the salty-sweet combo that makes it so appealing to people,” says owner Brett Jaggard of the indulgence.

Living in takeout times Many of us found solace in cooking at home during the first weeks of the pandemic, becoming adept at meal planning and shopping once every two weeks. But as some of our favourite restaurants, cafés and food shops perfected their delivery and inventive takeout, we were happy to take a break while supporting local business.

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Fresh daily specials from Gourmandissimo Catering & Fine Foods Shop in Caledon East, especially a recurring (and we hope lasting) taco trio with chicken, pork, and fish fillings, have us hooked.

Thanks to new rules, they’re also offering Windrush Estate Winery wines, Pommies ciders and beer from Caledon Hills Brewing Company for a one-stop shop. “We try to keep it different from what you would normally get at home, and our menu has slowly expanded,” says Adriana Roche, who co-owns the business with her husband, Gilles. “Mostly people just want a break from cooking and are really enjoying the variety.”

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Also in Caledon, Spirit Tree Estate Cidery tweaked its takeaway to keep the pizza, burgers and frites flowing. Pia’s on Broadway in Orangeville made lunch lovely again with curbside pickup of signature sandwiches including veggie and Cobb, and new treats like cinnamon buns and sourdough on weekends. Neighbour Mochaberry kept our videoconferences caffeinated with porch and mailbox drop-off of their in-house roasted coffee. Farther west, The Edge came up with a clever way to keep date night alive with a three-course meal with wine for two to go. We’re relieved Orangeville’s Forage opened for takeout in early June – and can report the duck salad travels well.

In Shelburne, Beyond the Gate offered to-go crepes, fresh salads and desserts (chocolate mousse, we’re looking at you). Judy’s Restaurant in Erin switched to takeout, pleasing customers by adding all-day breakfast to the comfort food mix. Erin’s Tin Roof Café kept us in take-home cookie dough. Kitchen at Mono Mills’ driveway pickup meant Thursdays became gnocchi night.

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the Boom in Local Food In the dark cloud of the pandemic, a silver lining for small farmers.

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I limited myself to a roasting chicken and sau­ sages. The bill came to $52.70. Not cheap, but I was supporting a local business, I knew the chicken would be juicy and flavourful, and I presumed the processing of that chicken had been more humane and likely more hygienic too.

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delivery options only to learn my order would be ready for “porch pickup” on May 8, almost two weeks hence. Hmm, I thought, quite a wait for a chicken. I hadn’t anticipated a dinner for such a long time since I’d raised roasters from day-old chicks in the 1980s.

When I finally did roast my bird, it was excellent.

Three of us in lockdown savoured the chicken, the gravy – oh, the gravy – the fixings and our special time together, sharing a meal.

Today, if I ordered that same chicken from Heatherlea, I could pick it up a quick two days later.

With remarkable speed, Heatherlea had not only implemented an online system, they’d also sorted out their supply problems – and they did it without waiting around for government assistance.

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They weren’t alone. Many other local farms also quickly adapted to an e-commerce platform for online and socially distanced ordering. And their grateful customers leapt on board with equal speed.

Tom Wilson, owner of Spirit Tree Estate Cidery in Caledon, says that within five minutes of launching the store’s online system on the Saturday before Easter, they had received orders for cider and baked goods. By Wednesday, they had to shut it down because they’d been swamped. “It was our best Easter ever,” Wilson says.

According to local-food advocate Brent Preston, who owns The New Farm near Singhampton, small food operators have been nimble in their response to the pandemic in part because they have short, flexible supply lines: the strawberries they sell are still warm from the field. It works for small farms who sell direct to their customers. Preston made the remarks during a virtual panel discussion examining Ontario’s food supply, hosted in late May by Ontario Green Party leader Mike Schreiner.

But Preston pointed out that for small producers who want to expand to their markets beyond the farm gate, there are also barriers. That’s because our food system is dominated by large-scale, commercial producers making bulk sales to big supermarket chains connected to each other through a compli­cated, inflexible supply chain. As panelist and Toronto-based food activist Wayne Roberts noted, “There’s no middle in our local food system.” By which he meant we lack infrastructure connecting independent farmers to the broader consumer market.

As Heatherlea was implementing its online soft­ ware and fine-tuning its porch pickup, panic buying resulted in something we never expected to see in Canada: empty supermarket shelves. Canada’s large multinationals fell victim to those long, convoluted supply chains that change course with the agility of the Titanic. Consider that the average head of lettuce, according to a University of Waterloo study, travels more than 3,700 kilometres, sometimes crossing the U.S./Canada border several times before you place it in your supermarket shopping cart.

Exacerbating the problem are the host of Covid-19 concerns at several meat and poultry processing facilities. Most notably, a Cargill Ltd. plant in Alberta suffered the largest single outbreak of Covid-19 in the country. Normally, the facility’s 2,000 or so employees process 4,500 head of cattle per day. When Cargill – and Maple Leaf Foods Inc. in Brampton – closed due to Covid-19, there was little to fall back on because many of Ontario’s small, local abattoirs, such as Metheral Meats in Glen Huron, which processed fewer cattle and lambs in a year than Cargill does

in a day, closed their doors several years ago. As reported previously in this magazine, these often family-run operations were unable to meet increased government regulations designed, some argued, to force them out of business. The resulting absence of “middle” is contributing to what Preston described as a lack of resilience in our food system.

Nevertheless, the in-your-face media coverage of conditions for both workers and animals in the big slaughterhouses has had a lot of people thinking harder about where their meat, and other food, comes from – and that has been an unanticipated boon to many local farmers.

According to local-food advocate Brent Preston, who owns The New Farm near Singhampton, small food operators have been nimble in their response to the pandemic in part because they have short, flexible supply lines: the strawberries they sell are still warm from the field.

Heatherlea, for instance, regularly sells out of its $277 Grill Butcher Box. And Calehill Farms, a family-run chicken farm near Hillsburgh, sold out of their first flock this year “so fast our heads are spinning.” They’re now taking orders for later in the summer. Rebecca Landman at Landman Gardens and Bakery near Grand Valley believes that after her customers buy the meat she sells, many of them no longer have an appetite for supermarket fare.

And it’s not just meat. The spike in local vegetable, fruit and beverage sales during the pandemic was repeated across our region. Customers, many of them first-timers, are showing an unprecedented willingness to take the time and spend the money to support local agriculture by purchasing the fresh, healthy products often grown just down the road. Jamie Richards at Am Braigh Farm sells produce mostly from the 200-square-foot store at the end of his Mono driveway.

He says, “We’re barely keeping up [with demand].”

Fiddle Foot Farm in Mulmur sold 50 per cent more CSA shares than in years past, and they sold out of them two months earlier than usual. Mount Wolfe Farm in Caledon likewise sold out of their CSA shares almost before their seeds were in the ground.

The surge in demand is not without complications though, especially when your “shareholders” are your family and employees. Margaret Galati, who works along with her husband and parents at the venerable Rock Garden Farms in Caledon East, says she feels personally responsible to continue offering her clientele what they expect and want – fresh Ontariogrown produce – even during a pandemic. Galati’s commitment runs deep. “My customers are my family,” she says, and she’s saddened because the face mask she has to wear precludes her customers from enjoying her trademark smile.

Unlike many others, Rock Garden didn’t move to an online system. Instead, they took email orders and hired four extra people to pack them. And they added a host of new products so Galati’s “family” can get pretty much everything they need in one place.

“We even sell ketchup now,” she says. Her reward? In April, Rock Garden’s food sales were above normal.

Two farmers have taken their innovations one step further. Maple Grove has installed a fresh produce vending machine for its strawberries and other produce at its roadside stand in Mansfield, and Besley Country Market has added one at its Shelburne store – making their produce available 24/7. Craving a latenight fix of strawberry shortcake, anyone?

Still, not all parts of everyone’s enterprises have flourished. Those with onsite cafés or bistros or who wholesale to restaurants have been unable to replace those revenue streams with online sales. Spirit Tree and GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co., for instance, were pulling a significant percentage of their revenue from their now closed on-farm restaurants. Farther north, Sheldon Creek Dairy took a major hit when the restaurants it supplied closed their doors.

Shaken by their loss in income, Sheldon Creek, like Rock Garden, expanded its product line by including many items from neighbouring farms and businesses. Marianne Edward, the dairy’s operations manager, says producers contact her every day wanting her to stock their products. She says, “We often call ourselves a hub.” They’re struggling to keep up with the demand for bacon, pork chops, cream and specialty products such as flavoured milk.

The idea of such hubs is catching on. In Shelburne, for one example, Besley Country Market are best known for their hydroponic tomatoes, but they also proudly promote their inventory of products from other local farms, including Brussels sprouts from Lennox Farm in Melancthon, mushrooms from Fresh and Tasty Mushrooms in Amaranth, and spinach from E & J Collins in Mono, among others.

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By co-operatively sourcing products from multiple regional farms, these mini-hubs make it convenient for consumers who want to buy local but are daunted by the prospect of having to travel to several locations to fill their pantries. But as significant, the hubs are an important step in filling out the missing middle of the supply chain for smaller producers.

Another trend farmers have jumped on is the demand for prepared meals with homemade flavour, especially ones you might categorize as comfort food.

As the novelty of making meals from scratch faded like the fleeting aroma of freshly baked bread, people got online and purchased ready-made casseroles like our mums used to make: mac and cheese, lasagna and chicken pot pies. At the Creemore 100 Mile Store, a big seller is Chef Patrick’s croissants – maybe not the fare produced by most Ontario mums, but pretty comfy nonetheless.

And at Am Braigh, Richards now sells prepared foods made by some of the local chefs he used to supply before their restaurants were shuttered.

For artisanal beverage producers the introduction of specialty items has proved another boost to sales. GoodLot says their first batch of a seasonal beer made with maple sap sold out in 12 hours, the second batch in six hours and the third in just four. Spirit Tree had a similar run on their latest seasonal cider, roasted peach/pear.

And there’s one other benefit of patronizing local farms and food shops – it just feels good. Neal Connolly manages the Creemore 100 Mile Store.

It’s a homey space that always smells great. He observed that shopping in his friendly store seems to ease the constant low-level anxiety about Covid-19 that haunts many of his customers. His sales of prepared foods have also gone up, and while it was difficult to find any flour in supermarkets in the early days of the pandemic, Connolly continues to sell a lot of it. He gets it in bulk from k 2 Milling in Beeton, then divvies it into smaller bags that fly off the shelves.

It all suggests that in the dark cloud of the pandemic, there may be a silver lining for local farmers. It has had people thinking much harder about where their food comes from, the social benefits that result from their decision to buy local food locally, and the enhanced food security a healthy domestic food sector helps ensure.

They’re also more aware that food grown in Ontario and sold at a farm gate or local market often translates

into more humane and more hygienic food. At Rock Garden, Galati tells customers her family-run store is essentially their living room and that she is doing everything she can to keep it Covid-19 free, because “if the store goes down, we go down.”

There’s a long row still to hoe for the local food movement, though. During the Green Party panel discussion, Alison Robertson, who heads the Ontario Fruit & Vegetable Growers’ Association, rhetorically asked a bleak question: If all Ontario’s fruit and vegetable producers shut down, would anyone notice? That’s how thin our supply of local produce is. Even the things that grow well in Ontario – strawberries, potatoes, apples – are regularly imported.

Among the practical initiatives the panelists offered to support the domestic food sector are to require public institutions, including prisons, schools and governments at all levels, to source a percentage of their food locally, just as the CBC has a Canadian content mandate. And rather than bail out multinational food conglomerates, suggested Preston, why not invest in local food-processing facilities? Why doesn’t Ontario introduce regulations that favour local production as they have done in Quebec?

But there is another, more intract­ able problem. Even here in our lush countryside where we are blessed with an abundance of seasonal fresh food, not everyone can afford to pay $5 or $6 a pound for a roaster chicken – no matter how hormone- and antibioticfree and ethically raised that chicken is – when a battery-raised chicken costs under $3 a pound at the supermarket.

Roberts noted that even though the overall cost of food is at an all-time low in Canada, many people still can’t afford to buy healthy, wholesome food. But he argued the resolution to that disconnect will not be found in further driving down in­come at the farm source, but in dealing with the income inequalities deeply embedded in an economic system skewed to favour corporate share­holders over community well-being. “There is no such thing as cheap food – someone is paying for it,” he said.

Creating a sustainable and resilient local food system won’t be easy, but Connolly from Creemore 100 Mile Store advocates an approach that would help us get there. He says we should stop shopping as consumers and start making our purchases as citizens.

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Anne-Marie Warburton This jeweller crafts her designs to match the individual – even when meeting them in person was on hold.

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These are questions Anne-Marie Warburton may ask you as your jewellery commission takes shape in her hands.

“Sometimes I’ll think, ‘Why did I even ask that question?’ but sometimes it’s just intuition in those first meetings,” Anne-Marie says as we talk by video call.

“For me, designing jewellery is about bringing out who the wearer wants to be.”

For Anne-Marie, a metalsmith who also studied jewellery management, cultured pearls, gems and gemology, this connection with her clients has fuelled a successful 14 years at Gallery Gemma in the Alton Mill Arts Centre. In her shop-cum-studio there, she designs custom orders and sells her own readyto-wear jewellery alongside those of fellow jewellers she admires. (Prices range from $20 to $20,000.)

Anne-Marie has been meeting with clients during the pandemic by video call and appointment at the gallery.

And her creative juices haven’t stopped flowing. She is reaching out to clients through social media, and to others on the front lines of the pandemic through acts of kindness – she created a series of cultured pearl earrings which she gave away to clients who used them as gifts to the healthcare workers, grocery clerks, food service workers or police officers in their lives.

The mill hadn’t yet been given the go-ahead to return to their usual hours when we spoke, but Anne-Marie says the owners calculated having 30 guests in at a time would allow for proper social distancing. That number “would be a dream” in the expansive complex, she laughs.

Still, the first step in her process isn’t taking a seat at her workbench or drawing table anyway. If she is creating a piece for a client, the first step is those probing conversations. And if it’s a piece for her own C O N T I N U E D O N N E X T PA G E

At Gallery Gemma in the Alton Mill, Anne-Marie Warburton designs, creates and sells heirloom-quality jewellery. The necklace and earrings, left, were inspired by the curves and lines of a mosque window.

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line, it’s a conversation with herself about everything from travel to architecture. For now, memories of travel will have to do, including a seminal one from her honeymoon. “I saw a piece of jewellery that was an umbrella and it had a little pear-shaped blue stone. I never even got to hold it, it was just in a window. The blue gem was a little raindrop coming off the umbrella,” she recalls of the piece that continues to inspire her.

A formal, segmented window of a mosque led to one of her favourite collections, her 2015 Garden Party line. It features window-like pendants and bold earring settings that, like their inspiration, are sturdy yet pleasing to the eye: “When you’re creating a piece of jewellery, you want to combine beauty with function.”

When she’s ready to put coloured pencils to paper for, say, a ring, Anne-Marie sketches her design roughly to scale, and then uses computer-animated design to translate the sketch into a 3D drawing. From there, a 3D printer pours layer after layer of wax. Because she can’t show me the process in her studio, she imitates the sound of bringing the design to life.

“Shk, shk, shk,” she says. “It’s not a perfect thing, but it’s nice to get a feel for the ring before I make it.”

Hand carving the wax is also an option – in fact, it was the only option before 3D printing. But there’s a level of detail the digital rendering and printing offers – for example, on an engagement ring with tiny diamond accents across the band.

With hand carving, this can be painstaking work. Though, Anne-Marie says, some styles warrant it. “There is an organicness to hand carving you can’t get from the printer.”

She hand fabricates some pieces. For others, her metal casting is done in Toronto using the lost wax casting method in which a mold is made from her wax model. The wax is melted away and molten metal – gold, silver or titanium – is poured into the mold to take the shape of the original wax.

She sets many stones herself and uses a Toronto diamond setter for some of the tiny ones. “He sits all day under a microscope doing a perfect job. That’s what I want for my customers,” she says. Why? Because these are pieces for some of the happiest times in a person’s life, such as weddings, and some of the saddest, such as repurposing family jewellery inherited from a deceased loved one.

“Jewellery has the wearer’s soul in it. This is the great joy,” Anne-Marie says. “It’s not about the biggest diamond or flashiest sapphire, it’s the connection to the person.”

Elaine Anselmi is a freelance writer who lives in Erin.

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I saw the sign Erin Walmsley’s Orangeville company, Country Oak Designs, emerged after she purchased a used scroll saw and dialled up YouTube videos to learn how to use it. Now she hand cuts pieces in her garage and paints them in her daughters’ playroom.

She’s especially fond of developing signs for small local businesses – even helping out with logo design. Farmhouse clocks are another forte. Order through social media and expect socially distanced deliveries or porch pickups. (From $150. Country Oak Designs)

Boxing days In a move that dovetails with a surging interest in online shopping, Erin-based Lovin’ Local Headwaters imagines the mystery box trend as a fiercely local statement. Founders Kylie MacEachern and Jake Cuthbert offer a rotating selection of themed boxes, including an at-home spa option. The spa box is filled with a selection of feel-good products from favourite suppliers, which may include soap or bath goodies from Orangeville’s Bridlewood Soaps, lavender items from Erin’s Stonewell Farm, and essential oils and other indulgences from Shelburne’s Fragrance & Friends. (Small, $60. Large, $100.

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All wrapped up These sunny, cheerful beeswax wraps from Austerfield Apiary Honey & Botanicals are just the ticket as we spend more time than ever in our kitchens these days. They’re also a locavore’s dream, made with pure beeswax from Austerfield hives located across Dufferin County. Organic jojoba oil adds flexibility, while organic pine resin provides stickiness, says Andrea Chantree, who runs the business with her mother and brother. The reusable pack of three (7", 10" and 12") can last a year or longer when cleaned gently with soap and water. Austerfield makes beeswax snack and sandwich bags, too.

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ooking for something magical to do with the young ones? Why not take a walk in the forest?

If you look closely, you might spot evidence of the fairies who inhabit our woodlands. Perhaps a little door set into a tree trunk, or a tiny house tucked into roots or perched on a stump.

Carol Southcombe saw her first fairy house last summer while rambling in the Palgrave Forest. When she showed her discovery to her two grandsons, their reactions didn’t disappoint. Jaxson, 8, imagined the tiny occupant of the house with vines around her body and a stick to hold up her hair. The wings on five-yearold Nathan’s magical fairy, also a girl, enabled her to fly.

The experience inspired Carol to build her own fairy house.

“I was fortunate that my grandkids intuitively believed that humans had created the little houses to help the fairies along,” she says. “I know some kids believe the fairies create their own houses. It would have been very sad if I had been the one to shatter their illusions.”

With the approval of her grandchildren and Lynn SinclairSmith, who runs the Friendship Gardens at Headwaters Health Care Centre, Carol tucked her fairy house beside a shrub near the pediatric wing.

The Palgrave Forest is managed by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and senior manager Doug Miller has given his blessing to the little houses – provided people respect the forests and don’t damage the trees or create safety issues.

“If the thought of running into a fairy house while on a hike in the forest will get kids away from their computers and into the forests, I’m cool with it,” he says.

Deborah Robinson, a community mental health counsellor at Caledon’s Peace Ranch, a nonprofit mental health agency, says she and the fairies have been friends for a long time.

“Fairy mythology differs from culture to culture,” says Deb. “In North America, we seem to subscribe to the Disney version of fairy mythology, but my Scottish-English background enables me to explore a deeper connection to the fairy world.”

And Deb walks the walk. Tucked into a circle of large pines at Peace Ranch is a fairy-sized village created and tended by participants in the centre’s art program.

Deb is sure fairies are quite capable of creating their own homes, but she also believes they are delighted to find one waiting for them to inhabit. “A little magic and a sprinkling of fairy dust helps to find a smile,” she says.

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HIKING 1O1 Lockdown-weary and fresh-air-starved visitors are flocking to our country trails, but many seem ill-prepared for the experience.

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hen Ontario began to ease its Covid-19 lockdown in May, and parks and hiking trails began to reopen, I grabbed my hiking shoes and was out the door so fast even my dog Frida had trouble keeping up.

First stop? Forks of the Credit Park. Its kames and kettle lakes, and steep forested slopes that drop down to the Credit River are embedded in my DNA. I went early on a cool, overcast day and there was no one about. I breathed in the quiet air, noting the odd white trillium that was, like me, an early riser. Soon these harbingers of spring would be among a mass of ephemeral flowers and, as it turned out, among a mass of humanity too.

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I was lucky to have the park mostly to myself that day. On the following weekend, cars overflowed from parking lots and lined both sides of access roads at a number of our local parks, the Forks of the Credit and Mono Cliffs in particular. For this was no normal Victoria Day weekend. It was get-outof-jail weekend, complete with warm temperatures and bright sunshine.

The abnormally large crowds that flocked to nature when lockdown rules eased in May will be with us for a while given that most participatory sports and summer camps have been cancelled. The increase in users may test my desire for peace and quiet, but it’s wonderful to see so many new hikers – wonderful, but a little unsettling too.

Unsettling because not everyone who has recently experienced our trails for the first time is like Paul Webster.

A downtown Toronto-based science writer, Paul says, “I can get to a great nature trail in Caledon in 40 minutes.”

He adds that having discovered both the beauty and urban proximity of the trails that crisscross these hills, hiking them will be part of his routine even when the pandemic passes. He won’t be alone in that.

But while Paul may be new to our trails, he’s a seasoned hiker. He knows about hiking footwear and layered clothing, about carrying water, and how to be a conscientious trail visitor. As a result, he and his 18-year-old daughter, Rosa, have great experiences and don’t inadvertently damage the environment.

I expect that Paul, like me, would wince if he saw fellow hikers limp by in flip-flops, dress shoes, even high heels, as I did on that fateful weekend. Blisters, I thought. Good footwear – at least sturdy sneakers – is to happy hiking what quality ear buds are to good music.

But footwear wasn’t the only thing that may have hindered the enjoyment of novice trail users. It was a warm weekend, but not that warm – at least not in the shade or in the wind. Every time I passed someone not carrying an extra sweater or jacket, I winced again, imagining what they’d do when the sun dipped behind a hill or if a cold wind blew in. Then there were the folks at the other end of the scale – melting under winter jackets. Why, I asked myself, don’t you tie that jacket

The Bruce Trail Conservancy’s Trail Users’ Code is a succinct guide to trail etiquette. Here’s my version, slightly amended for the times: 1 While physical distancing rules are in effect, stay at least two metres apart from your hiking partners.

2 If you need to pass other hikers on the trail, remain on the trail. According to microbiologists, the chance of getting the virus in the few seconds it takes to pass a fellow hiker is very slim.

3 Hike only along marked routes.

Do not take shortcuts.

4 Obey all signs.

5 Use the stiles. Do not climb fences.

6 Respect the privacy of people living along or near trails, including residents of villages close to parks.

7 Leave the trail cleaner than you found it. Carry out all litter.

around your waist? Or better yet, if you had one, why didn’t you grab a small backpack? Not only could you put extra clothing in it, but you could throw in a bottle of water, some snacks, sunscreen, a hat and sunglasses too.

There’s an expression among hikers: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. I prefer: There’s no such thing as a bad hike, just lack of preparation.

Well, preparation and a certain level of fitness. It’s important to know your limits. Study the trail map in advance, and know when to turn back, so you don’t go home sore and blistered. One or two kilometres is probably a good starter distance for someone normally inclined to park as close to the mall entrance as possible.

8 Do not light fires.

9 Camp only at designated campsites.

10 Leave flowers and plants for others to enjoy.

11 Do not damage live trees or remove bark. Do not carve your initials into trees.

12 Where dogs are permitted, keep them on a leash and under control.

13 If you pick up your dog’s poop in a plastic bag, carry it with you and deposit it in a proper trash can. Do not leave it on the side of the trail!

14 Do not disturb wildlife or farm animals.

15 Leave only your thanks and take nothing but photographs.

Stopping for a drink of water or to take a photo are tricks I’ve learned allow me to have a break without letting on that I’m out of breath. And I leave my music at home. I listen to the birds, and look for squirrels and chipmunks. I admire trees and flowers. And I acknowledge other trail users. “Hello,” I say. “Good morning, have a great hike.” Because we’re all in this, out here, together.

Nicola Ross is the author of the Loops & Lattes series of hiking books. She lives in Belfountain.

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What they depended on instead was inner strength, creativity, resources at hand and good neighbours.

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Isabella and Peter Horning (parents of Lewis, the founder of Horning’s Mills in 1832) led their six children from Pennsylvania through New York State, heading for a new life in Canada.

On the U.S. shore of Lake Ontario they loaded their supplies aboard a small skiff. The plan was for Peter and 13-year-old Lewis to sail it along the shoreline to Niagara while Isabella and the others walked on the shore in parallel. When a storm sank the boat, Peter had to walk to Niagara for help, leaving Isabella with her children – one a baby – camped on the shore.

The rescue boat took weeks to arrive.

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Benjamin Roadhouse wore a heavy fur coat for the long walk through the snow. He had set off to offer help and sympathy to Dugall Campbell whose wife had died delivering her tenth child.

When Benjamin slogged his way back up to The Ridges, as the area where he lived in Albion Township was known, the new baby was swaddled inside that fur coat. Named Elizabeth after her mother, she was raised by Benjamin and Catherine Roadhouse until, at age 17, she became the wife of another neighbour, David Downey, and went on to raise six children of her own.

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Nathaniel Rozell rests Growing wheat was something early arrivers mastered easily; getting it ground into flour was a different matter. Until local grist mills were built, settlers had to carry their harvest long distances on trails too rough and narrow for horses or oxen. From Erin, Nathaniel Rozell, the first settler in the township, would have carried his grain to Brampton. Two 100-pound bags were typical for a trip, which was too much to carry on a neck yoke, so like other early farmers, Nathaniel would have carried one bag a mile or so, then “rested” as he walked back to get the other bag.

He would repeat the process until he reached Brampton. Then he had to do it all over again to take the flour home.

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Using the resources at hand Among all the trials of early European settlers, not the least was a concern about getting lost. Not only was the territory utterly new to them, but except for rivers and creeks, it was hard to establish reference points in the dense forest. Darkness contributed to the settlers’ fears, especially for those who had brought ancient myths about wolves with them from Europe. So metal tubs and iron kettles, anything that would produce a loud sound, did extra duty in every log cabin. Users could often be identified by the distinctive sound of the “locator” they used, according to Dufferin historian Adelaide Leitch.

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both the team and the thief. The culprit – he gave his name as Smith – escaped custody after a court hearing in Orangeville, an outcome that might explain why the Ferris brothers had relied on their own resources to recover the oxen.

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Christian Cameron sets the tone After a lengthy, disaster-filled journey from Scotland, Donald and Christian Cameron reached their lot near what would one day be Airport Road and prepared to spend their first night. In a hollow that Donald carved out of a snowbank, they lay on cedar boughs, wrapped in sailing canvas with their baby between them. Their isolation was total, their situation abject and their future bleak. In his memoirs written years later, Donald described the utter misery and hopelessness he felt as he and his wife pressed together to keep their tiny daughter warm. But then Christian’s words revived him.

“Since Providence has provided us a lot in the wilderness,” she said, “we can go on without a house or shed.” ne ar mono mill s · 1830s

Billy fills the larder Every family knew that by midNovember a store of food for the winter should include a pig, butchered and dressed. So Mrs. Hishen, a widow with an injured arm, was becoming anxious as she waited for the neighbour who had promised to do the job for her. Her fear became urgent when she heard piercing squeals from the shed that leaned against her little cabin. Inside, the pig, whose destiny was foreordained, had become trapped and broken its leg.

There could be no more waiting, so she turned to the eldest of her two sons.

Billy was familiar with the butchering process. He’d been watching, fetching and carrying on butchering day ever since he’d learned to walk, but this would be his first time in charge. Billy, who was nine years old, got it done. mel anc thon · 1870

Tom and Ed Ferris capture a thief The man who stole a yoke of oxen one night from Tom Ferris’s pasture near Masonville probably didn’t realize one of them had a peculiar notch in its left front hoof. The mark made it easy for Tom and his brother Ed to follow the rustler’s tracks, first to Shelburne, then south to Farmington and on west toward Waldemar where they captured

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There were hardly any walking trails in Mono Township when Joe Alexander first came upon Sheldon Creek. For weeks he’d been scouting the township for a mill site and now he’d found it.

The site was ideal, but first Joe had to walk to York (Toronto) to buy equipment, then walk to Hamilton for millstones. From there it was ox carts and fording of rivers and streams to Sheldon Creek. The mill that ran for the next 131 years got its start because Joe Alexander was willing to walk. rockside · 1832

Euphemia Rowan nurses Cholera and smallpox. The very words struck terror in pioneer days. Ironically, the isolation endured by early settlers meant they were less susceptible to the virulent contagion of these two diseases, but many other diseases, along with injuries, were constant threats. Over a large area of southwest Caledon, Euphemia Rowan willingly responded to calls for medical help, and was known for readily putting herself at risk. Euphemia had been trained as a midwife in Glasgow, a background that gave her common-sense skills equal if not superior to the doctors of the day, many of whom still relied on 2,000-year-old medical principles established in ancient Greece.

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in Jeremiah Phillips’ home in Mulmur, or the bagpipes used by John Sinclair in Luther Township. (The pipes were allegedly particularly effective at scaring off wolves.) Pioneers used whatever was needed to bring the family home.

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Crawford gets it done When a flash flood took out a small but vital plank bridge, Albion’s Deputy Reeve Crawford authorized an imme­ diate rebuild at a cost of $70 to the township. The new bridge was com­ pleted in a head-spinning two days, but Crawford was censured for exceeding his authority limit ($10). His reported response – succinctly summarizing the pioneer spirit in these hills – was, “It needed doing and I did it.”

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ong days, short years, my mom always says. Our sense of time is a malleable thing and the Covid-19 continuum is messing with it right now in a big way. Are we in the middle of the pandemic, approaching the end, or is it just the beginning?

To me, the days feel intractably long. As a member of the Region of Peel’s emergency operations team, I start early every morning with an online meeting. We cover the confirmed cases in Peel, the deaths, the outbreaks. We cover the inventory of personal protective equipment (PPE – an acronym now common to everyone’s vocabulary) and how long the supply will last at current usage rates. We cover human resources matters for 6,000 staff. Where are the employees needed? Where are they able to go? Who can’t work because they’re sick?

Large conversations fly by, and my mind drifts to a couple of friends who have been redeployed, cheerfully in one case, to help screen staff at one of our locations, and fearfully for another who can’t afford to lose her job, is older but not close to retirement and has health issues. They’re not needed for their regular duties now, but they’re desperately needed on the front lines. Each brings their experience, sense of duty, and fear, and I can only imagine how those buckets of emotions overflow at their dinner tables every night, and how that affects their families and well-being. It’s on my list to reach out to see how they’re doing; I haven’t had the time.

My day feels organized at 8:30 a.m., but inevitably by noon there is new news to respond to, a crisis, or a question from a politician trying to support residents and needing answers now.

I’m deemed an essential support team member. I

communicate to employees and the community on the government response, what the latest regulations mean. I don’t feel essential though, as I sit at my dining room table and watch birds come and go in their natural habitat as blossoms begin to bubble at the ends of new limbs, while nurses and support workers put their lives at risk day in and day out.

My son, Adrian, strolls in and out of our main living area, which is now an office, a kitchen, and a cat and dog runway. My husband, Derrick, has work but not as much, so there are handsaws and nail guns ripping and popping in the background as he keeps himself productive. I apologize to my online colleagues for the noise – though we are told no apologies are necessary. My headset hurts the cartilage on my ears so much they’re hot to the touch.

These long hours are a different kind of essential, one that happens out of public view and looks easy if

you see me sitting in my cozy house, looking at birds and blossoms. Still, death counts and layoffs are not what anyone thought they would be working on this spring. It’s hard on the support teams, but we check our risklevel privilege, and stay quiet, knowing it’s so much harder on the front lines.

Adrian is doing the best he can, given the abrupt transition forced upon students. He hasn’t seen a friend since Friday, March 13 – two months ago as I write this, perhaps more like two years to him in “teenage time” (another one of those chronological tricks).

At first, he didn’t miss school. It was fun to be off a bit longer after March Break – like a giddy pile of snow days landed on our doorstep.

We both enjoyed that sneaky, skivingoff feeling. Then the boredom set in.

We were in limbo. Not in school, but not out. Then the school closure was extended. Lessons began to drip out online. Disorganized at first, they improved over time. Students began to set up their own routines, but when school boards announced that prepandemic marks would not decrease, expecting kids to sustain their efforts began to feel like an exercise in futility.

Knowing immediate consequences are negligible and figuring they can catch up “later” – it’s a teen’s dream.

We don’t know yet what “later” looks like. Is it in a month, or two, or six? Do calendars even make sense anymore? The provincial government relieved a few restrictions in midMay. And locally, the trails were immediately flooded with people who had been cooped up, edgy and needing air, some change of scenery, something, to break the spell. Lineups outside certain stores were orderly for the most part but wildly long, raising fear the numbers of Covid-19 cases would surely rise again in the weeks to follow.

Debates and opinions online and in person abound. Words like “herd immunity,” “flatten the curve,” “physical distancing,” “N95” and “system capacity” are tossed around, leaving you feeling confused or angry with your family or yourself for not understanding exactly what to do.

It’s dinnertime as I finish writing this in my office/kitchen, and while the sun is still shining and we should feel happy it’s summer, we are instead anxiously hoping the Covid continuum speeds along, and that soon we will have made it through these very long days and be looking back at the very short years.

Bethany Lee is an essential worker and a freelance writer who lives in Mono.

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Perfect. I was ready.

That night my quarantini was made with vodka, a tiny drop of vermouth and a twist.

I was looking forward to a nice long Skype chat with a good friend who lives far away. Together, but apart, we would sip before-dinner drinks.

I’ve come to cherish the routine the two of us developed during the Covid-19 turmoil. It’s a coming together that probably wouldn’t have happened if both of us hadn’t been stuck in isolation, with an abundance of time we could use to touch base with people we don’t see every day.

Living alone does have its challenges.

Engaging in one-way conversations with the dog or the houseplant can become dreary. But the compensations are numerous, and in the context of a reeling world, I believe they are downright positive. Mostly.

Quarantini with a twist: Writer Gail Grant settles in for a Skype chat with a distant friend.

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Herb and his wife, Lynda, live on 25 acres of the original New Tecumseth parcel purchased by his ancestors in 1853. There they raised three daughters and grew trees commercially while Herb pursued a career building golf courses and supervising the landscaping of large industrial properties.

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Realizing he no longer enjoyed the luxury of time, Herb decided to take up the challenge of exploring distant horizons. This quest has taken him to places such as Newfoundland and Labrador, Peru, China, Spain, Portugal, Majorca, New Zealand and the Grand Canyon.

His first hiking expedition was to Nepal’s Lower Annapurna Circuit in 1999. And once his health problems were resolved, he enthusiastically

No one complains when I crank up the volume on my favourite radio station, and there’s no debate about which station that will be. I can sing along, again at whatever volume I choose, and even dance as if no one is watching – which is the way I like to dance anyway.

I can choose which Netflix movie I’d like to see, again no debate, and I can leave my clothes hanging around until I feel like tidying up. If I feel like staying in my PJs til noon, who’s watching? And I don’t have to listen to never-ending news feeds either – unless I choose to.

As my friend Jim Garrow, who also lives alone, said during his time of social distancing, “So far, I’m getting along with myself okay, but that might change at any moment.”

As our population ages, many of us are either choosing the single life or finding ourselves there by default.

The 2016 census showed that about 26 per cent of Canada’s 5.9 million seniors live alone. Single seniors have, mostly, learned to give rhythm to their days, to set agendas and to follow

through. We have come to grips with our circumstances, and we know how to avoid sinking into tedium, lethargy and boredom.

We don’t have to deal with the spouse who sits in front of the TV watching CNN (and sinking further into a funk) hour after unending hour. I recently saw the wife of one of these husbands energetically digging in her garden wearing a furious frown. I wasn’t sure whether she was planting herbs or preparing his final resting spot.

I have an acquaintance whose hus­ band is medically compromised, in his 70s and quite frail. But he insisted on heading out on errands every day, even during the most contagious time of the virus outbreak. She was beside herself with worry, both for him and for herself, as he came breezing back into the house, a human vector. Because they each had a different attitude about appro­ priate pandemic behaviour, the home atmosphere grew increasingly tense.

Some believe the pandemic is no big deal. Others are very judgmental of those who break social distancing rules. It has crossed my mind that the practices of divorce lawyers might see an uptick in the coming months, although I have no way of confirming this. Yet. But most of us have used this time to take a break. Without the usual demands on our time, we slept

more, ate more, tweeted, blogged and thought more, loafed, exercised, created art, whined, mooched, dozed, cried, binge-watched, and wallowed with books downloaded on our iPads.

We closed our bubble and sucked it up.

My spice drawer has never been tidier. The basement has been sorted through and culled, as have my closets.

Somehow I haven’t made it to the garage yet. To keep my mind from seizing up, I got into some great read­ ing and rebooted my Spanish lessons.

Constant human contact might add interest to the days, but those of us who have our health and have been on our own for any length of time cashed in our experience points and quickly adapted. We value our solitude, but we also treasure our connections, both real and virtual.

The Skyped quarantini was a far cry from the cocktail parties we hosted and enjoyed in our 40s and 50s, but it was right for the time. As we struggle toward normalcy, I remind myself that hope is the foundation of sanity – and that hardship is part of the journey.

When stressed, it’s a good idea to float awhile. And remember, we are all weathering the same storm.

Gail Grant is a happily retired senior who lives in Palgrave.

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hank goodness the dog ran away. Without the puppy’s flight to greet a city neighbour’s kids, the Caledon farmhouse formerly known as Hilly Haven might have got away from Mark and Judy McLean ... again.

The now retired Toronto couple had tried to buy the property in 2008, after seeing it across the road from the home once owned by Mark’s aunt. But the property was taken off the market.

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his break – with serendipitous results.

When Judy dashed to retrieve him, she got chatting with the neighbour, who had also been interested in Hilly Haven and knew that it had just been listed again. Mark and Judy sprang into action, and the property at Innis Lake Road and Finnerty Sideroad started a new chapter in its long history.

The home’s history began when James Killeen, owner of the tavern in Sleswick, a hamlet at what is now the intersection of Finnerty and Airport

Road, built the two-storey log house at the heart of the property. Killeen came to the area in 1821, but the date the house was built is unknown. The property passed to Michael Finnerty in 1864. In the 1970s, more recent owners put in a new foundation with a full basement. They also transformed the original kitchen in the south gable end of the house into a living room.

By the time Mark and Judy took ownership, the exterior of the house was clad with white cement board

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When Mark and Judy McLean (above) bought their Caledon weekend home in 2011, only a tantalizing peek of its log construction was visible.

that obscured the logs, save for one tantalizing corner. Could the logs be restored? Clearly there was a lot of history, love and potential bound up in the log farmhouse, and Mark and Judy were keen to begin working on their weekend home.

Equally excited were their daughter, Chelsea Hulme, a former film and line producer, and her husband, Cory Wilyman, a director of photography, who recently opened the Cardinal Gallery in Toronto. After the real estate

deal closed in August, the “committee of four” began the year-long restora­ tion, joined in their enthusiasm by Chelsea and Cory’s daughter, Juliet, who was 11 at the time.

Removing the exterior cladding, as well as the interior fake wood panelling that had damaged the underlying lath and plaster walls, revealed a hoped-for discovery – 18-inch square-cut logs that had been hewn from hemlocks on the property.

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top left A view from outside the new addition shows an impressive glass wall rising to meet the peaked roofline. top right A comfortable living area is oriented toward the long vista stretching beyond the glass wall. left The contemporary, low-profile kitchen was designed by Viki Mansell of Toronto’s Absolutely Inc. centre One of the rustic-yet-modern bedrooms is tucked against original logs. right Among the first moves the family made after buying the house was to paint all interior walls, excluding logs, with Benjamin Moore’s Cloud White.

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Cory cleaned and rechinked the logs, and this loving treatment, along with some white flecks remaining from the plaster, resulted in a beautiful patina.

Chelsea chose Benjamin Moore’s Cloud White to paint everything inside, save for the exposed logs. The original wide-plank pine floors were refinished. New attic insulation, windows, bathroom and metal roof followed. But there were some mishaps along the way. Judy recalls that 13 delivery trucks took a dip in the seasonal pond out front before the driveway was rebuilt to prevent such adventures.

In 2015, new inspiration struck, sparked by an architectural design featured in Dwell magazine. The result is a new addition facing east.

The cathedral ceiling and a glass wall that soars to the ceiling’s peak create a seamless transition between the cozy interior and the outdoor vista of a spring-fed pond and the fields beyond.

The decidedly contemporary look of the addition complements rather than clashes with the traditional farmhouse. The airy open-concept space includes a new kitchen with a large island and quartz countertops, as well as a living room with a polished

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Robert Radonicich of Craftsmen Builders served as the addition’s general contractor and carpenter.

Fletcher Patriquin, a friend of Cory’s, took on the custom cabinetry, including the new pantry. Viki Mansell, of Toronto interior design company Absolutely Inc., designed the kitchen, pantry, mudroom and ground-floor bathroom, all part of the new addition. Viki also sourced Mark’s favourite piece in the house –

a painter’s trestle table 11 feet long by 21 inches wide. “Its rustic surface and outsized proportions work perfectly in the big room,” says Mark. Canadian pine furniture and a few Persian rugs round out the furnishings.

The work spilled outside. Mark worked with Ontario Streams, a nonprofit group that focuses on rehabilitating the province’s streams, rivers and wetlands, to separate the pond from one of the streams that run through the property. Diverting the stream around the pond was designed to help prevent warming and provide a

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friendlier habitat for cold-water fish.

Hockley’s David Warburton then reshaped and landscaped the pond, focusing on thoughtful plantings, including willow, tamarack, cedar, sumac, hazel, dogwood, button bush, water lilies, sedges and grasses.

In winter, Cory and Chelsea enjoy using the pond as a skating rink – it’s where Juliet learned to skate and play hockey – and in summer, for swimming on hot days. It’s a peaceful compromise, as conservationist Mark had stridently voiced disapproval of installing a pool. The words “over my

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dead body” may have been uttered.

In time, the two families plan to rename the property to reflect how it fulfills the dreams of each of its occupants. Chelsea has been able to express a decorating style that embodies a sense of whimsy. A collection of quilts and hand-hooked rugs is just one of her contributions.

Cory and Chelsea have also been able to indulge in hobbies not suited to Toronto life. On learning the property’s history of producing applejack from its many apple trees, the couple set about resurrecting the cider shack – with mixed results, but

a desire to keep trying. The driveshed was also renovated to serve as a games room, featuring a Ping Pong table and a wood stove. A lean-to serves as a painting studio for Judy, though it is not without its limitations. “It’s only serviceable for four months of the year,” she laughs. “Too hot in summer and too cold in winter.”

For Judy there’s a nostalgic comfort in the historic house and grounds.

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recreated in abundance. The sitting porch is a favourite, but Judy is most enamoured of the vegetable garden, which she rehabilitated with the help of her great-nephew Morgan Whittall.

Now planted and maintained by Mark Gorski of Gourmet Garden Organics, it provides an abundance of red carrots, turnips and potatoes, which are stored in the root cellar in true farmhouse fashion. Larry Zembal of Humbervalley Honey maintains hives on the property, and Brad Matchett of Rusty Jade Ranch takes hay off the fields. The fertile property shares its bounty with community members.

It is the outdoors that beckons Mark, with trails zigzagging throughout the 60 to 70 acres of forest, perfect for the avid hiker. Judy recalls that the first time they toured the property: 86

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In their house with no name, Mark and Judy are quickly putting down more roots than the vegetables in their garden. On March 13 this year, they arrived for a weekend – just as the bottom dropped out of all our lives. When a friend asked to use the McLeans’ Toronto home for a 14day coronavirus quarantine, Mark and Judy hunkered down in the safe haven of the log farmhouse, complete with the new, blissfully large, pantry and stocked root cellar. And the

left Peonies beginning to bloom in early summer. right The family’s four-legged members tear across the home’s wraparound porch.

magnificent view through the glass wall. You could spend a long lockdown lost in that vista.

Far from chafing at the constraints, Mark and Judy loved their time in the safe embrace of their house in the hills, which continues the warm tradition of protecting and providing for its inhabitants.

Janice Quirt is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.

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94-ACRE FAMILY HEIRLOOM, ERIN This 3600 sq ft home has been loved by the same family since 1875. Large eat-in kitchen opens to a large inviting sunroom with a walkout to a large deck overlooking vistas of nature. 2 staircases lead to living areas ready for your finishing touches. A detached 2-car garage provides additional room for storage. Updated insulation, bathroom, windows, shingles and drilled well. Approximately 60 acres in cash crops. GRCA and CLTIP credits. Trailways, swimming pond with bridge and forest invite you to play. Both house and farmland currently rented. Quiet location, close to Town. MLS $1,349,000

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WOODED HAVEN BUNGALOW Long driveway to this private oasis surrounded by trees & ponds on 14 acres. 3+1-bdrm, 4-bath log home, open concept, soaring ceilings w/ entertainer’s kit. Fin’d lower level offers more living space & walk-up to a 3 car & sep 2-car heated grg. Natural gas. Back-up generator & 200 amp service. MLS $1,890,000

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ABOVE & BEYOND CUSTOM HOME Crafted with solid ICF construction, efficient heated basement floors and fuelled by natural gas in country setting. 2 bedrooms on upper level and 2 more in bright fully finished basement. Cathedral ceilings and large windows bathe open concept floor plan with light. Garage offers full 1 bedroom and 1-bath nanny suite for guests or extended family. Features include: wood stove, granite counters, hookup for generator and private 2+ acres. Adjala $1,199,000

BUNGALOFT WITH INGROUND POOL 3 bdrm, 3 bath, bungaloft with resort-like backyard featuring 20x40 ft pool, flagstone, rockery and perennial gardens. Geothermal heating home and pool. Floor to cathedral ceiling stone work around fireplace in great room. Master has hardwood floor, fireplace and 6-pc ensuite, 2nd & 3rd bdrms both with semi ensuites. Loft consists of open office area and fantastic family room. Separate entry to bright bsmt with rec room, games room, kitchen, theatre area and bath. Caledon $1,799,000

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EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE… A special property comes along and we invite you to check out this private and secluded 50-acre parcel in north Mulmur with spectacular easterly views. A sprawling custom bungalow is sited to take advantage of beautiful vistas out every window. Spacious principal rooms, inviting sunroom, great room with fieldstone fireplace, finished basement, spring-fed pond, detached 30’x40’ workshop. Call for more details.

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LAND – IT’S IRREPLACEABLE! 44 acres on a paved road, just 1 km south of Shelburne. The property boasts 990’ of frontage on County Road 11 & features mixed bush, open meadow & sparkling spring-fed pond. Driveway is into the property at the north end. $595,000

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TUCKED AWAY IN BELFOUNTAIN Private with mature trees, gardens, spring-fed pond. Unique 2.8 acres is steps from Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. Existing homestead being sold ‘as-is’ including 2-storey home, detached double-sided car garage, separate cabin and awaits a renovator’s hand. $849,900

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PRIME SOUTH CALEDON LOCALE – 13.42 ACRES Great retreat or hobby farm with a portion of the land being tenant farmed, qualifying for lower taxes. Beautifully manicured gardens with towering hedges provide ultimate privacy on a lovely parcel of land with stream. An immaculate 3-bedroom bungalow has a wood-burning fireplace.

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CALEDON 30 ACRES WITH MODERNIZED FARMHOUSE On the escarpment with a newly paved 260 ft driveway, a 2-car attached garage, parking pad for 6 cars, plus a detached 4-car garage. This 2.5-storey, 1915 century home is totally updated with 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 3rd floor master suite, while keeping the character of yesteryear with new high baseboards, wide trims, oak hardwood, slate floors in kitchen and a finished bsmt. Perfect for a hobby farmer, horse enthusiast, or as a retreat paradise on the escarpment. $2,189,900

CALEDON EAST CENTURY HERITAGE HOME ON CUL-DE-SAC A unique piece of history, beautifully upgraded while keeping original character, 9 ft ceilings, pine plank floors, high baseboards, solid wood trims, crown moulding and extensive landscaping with two patios and firepit in south-facing backyard oasis with Caledon Trail access. This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath has an elegant kitchen with Pro Series 6-burner gas stove, copper sink and Elmira cookstove, a family room, den and huge master with fireplace. $1,168,900

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ORANGEVILLE WEST END 3+1 bdrm, 3.5 bath w/ fin w/o bsmt 4th bdrm & rec rm backing onto conservation. Hrdwd, crown mouldings, granite countertops, ss appls plus upgrades: shingles 2012, triple glazed windows 2018, furnace 2016, c/vac. $768,900

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ORANGEVILLE Pride of ownership! 3 bedroom with gorgeous kitchen w/ stainless appliances, quartz countertops, centre island w/ breakfast bar overlooking the eat-in area w/ stone veneer gas fireplace.

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9+ ACRES, 10TH LINE, ERIN 2 fully private dwellings for the price of one.

Perfect for the extended family. Large pond and forested property with a total of 6+1 bedrooms and 5 baths. $1,699,000

CENTURY OLD ICON, BELFOUNTAIN STORE Location, location, location. Perfect for the owner operator looking for turn-key. Run your own business in this live/work opportunity! Currently operating as "The Common Good". Ice cream parlor, baked goods, gourmet coffee, retail sales, seating inside and outside with lots of parking and a stream runs through it plus a 3-bedroom apartment for you to reside or rent. $1,499,000

1 ACRE, 246342 HOCKLEY RD, MONO Custom building in 2015 with 3+2 bdrms, 4 baths. Open concept great room with principle dining room or den. Radiant heat in lower level, security and irrigation systems. $1,299,000

39 OLD CARRIAGE RD, EAST GARAFRAXA 1.8 acres, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2-car garage, partially finished basement, private yard, large principal rooms. $1,199,000

17219 HWY 50, PALGRAVE Step outside the box and consider the possibilities for this property. Office, clinic, retail, financial, repair and so much more. Of course this is a successful turn-key restaurant/pub.

Open the doors tomorrow for $849,000.

11 MAPLE LANE, PALGRAVE Adorable home with many upgrades. Newer windows, gas furnace & stove, 2 baths, 2+1 bdrm, finished lower level with w/o & f/p.165’ backyard & professional landscaped. $799,000

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MISSISSAUGA ROAD, CALEDON Masterpiece w/ views on 25+ acs. 5000+ sq ft home, 5 bdrms each with ensuite, designer kitchen w/ granite & built-in cabinetry. Hrdwd throughout, gym, wine cellar, 3-car grg, pool complex w/ outdoor kit & more! $3,850,000

BEECHGROVE SDRD, CALEDON Gracious country living with room for all!

Meticulously updated 4-bedroom red brick, century farmhouse with board & batten & stone addition on 59 acres. Bank barn, arena, paddocks & 2 swimmable ponds. $1,899,000

WELCOME TO “FOREST VIEW” – EXCLUSIVE This award-winning custom built 3-storey home sits privately on 3.5 lushly treed acres surrounded by hundreds of acres of Conservation. Spectacular post & beam great room with 32ft ceiling at its peak, over 6000 sq ft of finished living space, finished lower level, detached 3-bay garage/workshop with 1000 sq ft guest suite above. Breathtaking!

To see more photos, go to www.dawnbennett.com. $2,589,000

MONO CENTRE RD, MONO Custom Ontario white pine log home with w/o bsmt on 44 acres. 4-stall barn with tack, feed rooms, coverall hay storage, sep in-law suite, paddocks, run-ins, 18-acre hayfield, close to hiking, fine dining. $1,625,000

7TH LINE, MULMUR 55 acs on dead-end road. 5-bdrm bungalow overlooks a pond and 7-stall horse barn. 2nd residence, heated shop, Century bank barn.

35 acres tile drained crop land, 7 acres bush. Close to 89 and Airport. $1,525,000

6081 KIRBY ROAD – KLEINBURG 2 separate deeded properties for a combined 6.1 acres being offered separately or together.

On a section of Kirby Road that leads to Conservation area and bridle paths. 3-stall barn & paddocks means you can have your horses at home & ride from there – no trailering! Charming country home is 2800+ sq ft and full of character and warmth – updated & improved over the years. Offered at $2,650,000 for the parcel with house and $1,050,000 for vacant parcel.

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MOFFAT DUNLAP

REAL ESTATE LIMITED, BROKERAGE

905-841-7430 moffatdunlap.com Moffat Dunlap*, John Dunlap**, Peter Boyd, Murray Snider, Nik Bonellos, Elizabeth Campbell, Courtney Murgatroyd, Sean Wynn, Mark Campbell***, David Warren**** *Chairman, **Broker of Record, ***Sales Representative,****Broker

50 ACRES ON THE GRANGE, CALEDON Build new or renovate. Call for details.

100 ACRES, HOCKLEY POND FARM Stunning scenery. 3+ ac swimming pond, mature trees, miles of trails. Solid home built by notable Ladd family circa 1912. Bank barn with stalls, paddocks, large outbuildings! $2,100,000

HORSESHOE HILL LAKE, CALEDON 106 acres of pure country bliss! South views over dock and 40-acre private lake. 2nd house.

Serene country retreat. $5,250,000

MAPLE LANE FARM, MONO 71 acres with pristine 1837 stone house + elegant 2-bedroom guest house. Private setting. Pond. 3-bay workshop. AAA location.

Great commuter location. $2,499,000

254 ACRES, BLITHE HILL, MONO Landmark property! Extensive river frontage. 2 deep ponds, trails, pool. Classic stone residence, gate house, 3-storey barn w/ workshop. Your own arboretum & lilac collection. $4,125,000

REDESIGNED HOME, CALEDON Newly designed interiors. Exceptional country estate. Main residence with 10 bdrms, indoor pool, underground parking. Multiple guest houses. Trout pond. Serene setting. $14,995,000

HIGHPOINT RETREAT, ALTON Rare 100-acre property. Update current 80’s ranch bungalow or create a new residence.

Rolling hills, pond, pastures, hardwood forest. $4,125,000

7 BRIARWOOD DR, CALEDON Estate home with 6000+ sq ft of living space.

4 acres. Premier lot. Tamarack Estates.

New price. $1,999,000

51-ACRE ESTATE, HOCKLEY VALLEY Restored century home, saltwater pool, 1100 sq ft coach house, rec centre/office + immaculately restored stable. Pond. Long driveway. Peaceful country living. $2,999,000

BEECH GROVE HALL, CALEDON Custom-built bungalow + 4-bay garage with loft apartment. Privately sited country home on 46 acres. High-efficiency and high-calibre build. New price: Exclusive

CALEDON COUNTRY HOME Amazing view to the Escarpment. Swimming pond with beach & dock. Private 3.45-acre lot.

Reno’d 4-bdrm, 4-bath home. Deluxe master suite. Renovations just completed. $1,599,000

THE SCOTCH ESTATE, HALTON Three residences. 185 acres of farmland.

Three possible severances. Several dwellings and farm buildings. Private access to the Scotch Block reservoir. $14,995,000

7-ACRE BUILDING LOT, ERIN Well located lot with rolling lands with Ygood A L25L minutes views. Would suit walkout design.

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48 ACRES, CALEDON New driveway installed to elevated building site. Approvals to build new home! Useful gate house. Long views over the Caledon Hills.

Asking $1,150,000

SOUTH FARM, HOCKLEY Fully restored, exceptional quality, 4-bedroom Victorian farmhouse, plus coach house. Paved road. 90 acres. $1,990,000

STONE HOUSE, MONO Lovingly restored country property with nearly six acres of walking trails, hidden country gardens. New great room with 13’ ceilings.

Open concept country kitchen. $1,249,999

VICTORIAN HOUSE, ORANGEVILLE Renovated Victorian house in the centre of Orangeville. Can be used as single residence or mix of residential and commercial.

Ample parking. $979,000

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Welcome to Headwaters Country HeadwatersCountry.com info@headwaterscountry.com 519-941-5151 Victoria Phillips and Janna Imrie Sales Representatives

RCR Realty, Brokerage Independently Owned & Operated

1910 RENOVATED FARMHOUSE ON 37.5 ACRES IN MULMUR Immaculately kept home with lots or character and charm, including original flooring, clawfoot tub, living room with bright southerly views, and a separate dining room. Roomy and warm family room addition with fireplace and a walkout to deck with ornamental pond and hot tub. Fantastic family home with over 30 workable acres for a mixed farm. $975,000

TAMARACK ESTATES Nestled in the middle of 3.17 acres sits this wonderful family home. Updated open-concept kitchen with granite countertops and tons of cupboards. Walkout from living room to hot tub.

Main floor family room and laundry. Walkout to heated inground pool with stone landscaping and plenty of room for entertaining. 4 bedrooms, finished basement, hardwood floors, gas fireplace and so much more. $1,299,000

FANTASTIC TIMBER HOME ON PRIVATE 1.5 ACRE COUNTRY LOT Nestled in the hamlet of Terra Nova. Features contemporary finishes including glass rail, 2-storey steel clad fireplace, wonderful chef’s kitchen with quartz counters, huge island with breakfast bar and a walk-in pantry. Great room has soaring cathedral ceiling and light flooding in though the floor-to-ceiling windows. Master on main level with glass shower and soaker tub. 2 other good sized bedrooms each with ensuite. $999,999

WELCOME TO MONO MILLS This original owner home is situated on .75 acres with natural gas heat and town water. Extremely well-maintained and upgraded. Open-concept living/dining/kitchen. 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths and a finished basement with a gas fireplace and extra bedroom, weight-room with built-in sauna and tons of storage. Above-ground pool, hot tub and double-detached garage. $795,000

BEAUTIFUL FAMILY HOME IN EAST GARAFRAXA Great 5-bedroom family home with wrap-around verandah, mature trees, beautiful landscaping including firepit, rockery and perennial gardens. Features hardwood floors throughout, generous open-concept kitchen with Corian counters, open-concept dining, family room with fireplace and walkout to a private patio. Immaculately kept and a wonderful place to raise your family in a fantastic area. $1,180,000

ATTENTION INVESTORS Looking for a great place to invest other than the stock market? This 60-acre property just north of Palgrave has a long-term tenant and a solar panel contract that generates $70k income per year. Lovely rolling property with spring-fed pond and a tributary of the Humber River running through it. Approximately 30 acres in hay fields, lots of trees, cut trails, 12-stall barn, paddocks and two homes on the property. $2,500,000

25 ACRE BUILDING LOT IN MULMUR Long beautiful views to the west and northeast and of the Niagara Escarpment. Enter up the lane of century old maples to a high lying building spot with a previously approved building envelope. Rolling hills, views and a quiet road – an idyllic country property to build your dream home. $419,900

VIEWS FROM EVERY WINDOW Fabulous is the best way to describe this 50-acre property with amazing long views from every window. Well-maintained and updated house with 4+1 bedrooms, walkout basement, main floor master bedroom, attached garage, saltwater pool, hot tub and a huge detached garage with room for your RV. Totally private setting in Quinte West. $848,900

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4500 SQ FT OF SUSTAINABILITY, HISTORY & CRAFTSMANSHIP 7 acres with Shaws Creek running through the forest, the centre is an 1854 restored Ontario bank barn timber frame, the interior organized around it, central wood-burning heater and fireplace, two-story great room, open loft spaces; the kitchen is 300 sq ft with a high cedar-clad ceiling opening to elliptical clerestory windows and a wall of glass looking out to your private outdoor sanctuary. $1,999,000

100-ACRE ESTATE PROPERTY – ADJALA On a private road overlooking Hockley Valley. Ontario farm home restored with carriage house and bank barn all in excellent condition. Tree-lined drive. Over 80 acres of sandy loam soil with mature hardwood bush. 2 road frontages. 10+ offering. $1,895,000

CUSTOM BUNGALOW ON 2 ACRES – KING TOWNSHIP This gated and fenced property features 4+1 bedrooms, 3 baths and renovated kitchen. Finished basement with kitchen for recreation or in-laws. Attached triple-car garage and large workshop with separate office space. Inground pool with waterfall and outdoor entertainment area. Quality offering for contractors, in-home occupation or hobbyist. $1,995,000

THE BEST OF TOWN AND COUNTRY ON 2.5 ACRES Big south-west views overlooking Alliston, immaculate stone home, 40’x60’ heated shop, 2 entrances, zoning for a granny flat. No details spared, gorgeous hardwood, custom maple kitchen with heated floors open to the cathedral family room with walls of windows and views of the rolling hills. Master ensuite with heated floors. Bright lower level, full bath with heated floors, sauna, family room with woodstove. $1,275,000

THE ULTIMATE RETREAT! Renovated 1800's log home on 6.74 acres of trees and trails with creek winding through. Tree-lined drive leads you to a 4-car garage with room for toys and a workshop. Follow the stone walkway to your dream home offering 4 seasons of entertainment, gardening, sitting by the fire, lazy days on the deck, hiking, biking, farm markets. Perfect location close to 400, Barrie, Alliston and Collingwood. $979,000

EXECUTIVE ESTATE IN MONO On 46.38 acres of rolling hills. It's like a dream! Tree-lined drive to the custom 5400 sq ft home with stunning 360 views. Gorgeous 2-story foyer welcomes you with huge views out the dining room wall of windows. Exceptional layout with main floor master suite, open concept family and massive kitchen, 2 beautiful spaces for home office or entertaining. Upper level features 5 large bedrooms, lower level walkout to the patio and pool. $2,495,000

BEAUTIFUL FAMILY HOME ON 3 ACRES Just outside of Beeton. Features 4+2 bedrooms, 3 baths. Updated kitchen and bathrooms.

Hardwood throughout, multiple walkouts, boasting a perfect mix of open concept and separate living space. Lower level in-law suite. High efficiency propane furnace. Close to Hwy's 27, 88 and 400 and 15 minutes to Bradford. $1,099,000

24.62 ACRES OF PRIVACY & ROOM TO ROAM Hike, ride, ski, grow veggies, raise animals, make maple syrup and be self sufficient on your own piece of the Hills of Headwaters. Custom open concept home is finished top to bottom with walkout lower level and views from all windows. Barn with stalls, high ceiling, large doors. Paddocks, trails and forest make this the country space just minutes to Mansfield Ski Club, Bruce Trail, fine dining. $1,085,000

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RCR Realty, Brokerage Independently Owned & Operated

RossHughes.ca 519-938-2225

8 COUNTRY MEADOW DR, AMARANTH JUST LISTED! This spectacular raised bungalow features two complete living spaces with high-end finishes throughout, perfect for a large family. Situated on a 2.4-acre lot and landscaped to perfection; this home leaves nothing to be desired.

7172 COOLIHANS SDRD, CALEDON JUST LISTED! Find blissful tranquility in your own oasis. This gorgeous home sits on 10.89 acres of forest and trails with endless picturesque scenes. Completely upgraded from top to bottom while preserving the charm.

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0.88 ACRES IN ORANGEVILLE Two parcels along with one of Orangeville's most well-known businesses! Thriving floral business with approx 10,000 sq ft of greenhouses, 27 surface parking spaces and attached two-storey 5-bedroom Victorian home as well as detached 2-bedroom bungalow. Fantastic opportunity to purchase an existing business, invest, or possibly develop in the future!

76-78 John Street. $1,750,000

GORGEOUS GARAFRAXA WOODS 2.29 acres w/ backyard oasis. 3500+ sq ft home finished on 4 lvls w/ self-contained apt, pool & no neighbours behind! More than enough room for the whole family both indoors & out. 5 bdrm, 5 bath. $1,099,900

CHARMING CENTURY HOME Absolutely charming & beautifully restored (2010) 1-1/2-storey home w/ custom trim throughout & stunning exposed beams. Must be seen to be fully appreciated! Affordable move-in ready home. 2 bdrm, 2 bath. $499,900

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THIS ONE CHECKS ALL THE BOXES! Private retreat on 11+ acres. Premium Caledon location on Grange Sideroad. Lovely log home overlooking ponds with waterfall, nature trails, butterfly meadow. Pride of ownership shines throughout. Convenient proximity to city, airport, golf, hiking, riding, skiing and amenities.

And the price is right!! Exclusive – call for details.

MULMUR SANCTUARY Designed by architectural firm Superkul, this prototype healthy home is a sustainable, multi award-winning contemporary design. 2125 sq ft with 2 main floor master suites. Detached 800 sq ft guest apartment above the 2-car garage. Floor-to-ceiling triple glazed windows and skylights. Spring-fed swimming pond, lush low maintenance landscaping. Explore the trails that wind through the magnificent woods. $2,690,000

OPPORTUNITY IN ALTON 8+ acres on two lots in prime Alton location.

Live and work from home in one of Alton’s original mills or build on the 2nd lot.

Commercial potential. Shaw’s Creek runs through the properties! $1,225,000

MULMUR – "EASTVIEW" Perched on the Escarpment with fabulous views for miles. Renovated bungalow with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, centre island, granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Inviting in-deck swimming pool to enjoy on long summer days. Grab a picnic and hike up to the gazebo for even more spectacular views. Creemore, golf and skiing are minutes away. $999,000

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MONO TREASURE 25 private acs with 2 ponds. 3-bdrm, 3-bath bungalow. Large solid drive-through workshop with loft. Perfect for hobbyist or home business. Groomed trails through mature forest and open meadows. $1,320,000

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1885 VICTORIAN FARMHOUSE Spectacular high-end craftsmanship and attention to all details. 3 bdrms, indoor and outdoor kitchens, 2-car garage with heated office/studio. Sep workshop. Guest log cabin.

Drive shed. 60 acres, pond and river. $2,579,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

STUNNING SUNRISE, SUNSETS Custom built, open concept, 3+2 bdrms, ongoing views, in-law suite with separate entrance. Double-car garage. 80x34 barn with 12 stalls, paddocks, rolling land. 25 acres.

Very private and backs onto Mono Cliffs Park. $1,289,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

QUALITY SOUTH ERIN CUSTOM Recently built by a luxury home builder for his personal use; this incredible home offers 2 family living with a main residence and fully self-contained luxurious 2-bedroom in-law suite for those accustomed to high standards. All mechanics and finishes of the latest technology offering energy efficient living. Nestled on four acres with 4-car garage and additional 3-bay shop. No expense spared. $2,450,000

MESMERIZING 2 ACRES Gated private driveway to original square log home makes this a warm and inviting escape. 3 bdrms, relaxing sunroom, dine-in kitchen with walkout. Lower level in-law suite with separate entrance. Separate workshop. $899,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

STUNNING, PRIVATE 36 ACRES Paved road, stream, pond, forest leading to this contemporary gem. Centre kitchen/ great room leads to deck and 4 hexagons consisting of master bdrm, living room, family room, 2 more bdrms, laundry, garage. $1,199,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

SPECTACULAR CALEDON CUSTOM DREAM HOME Situated on a private lot this magnificent home boasts main floor master with incredible spa-like ensuite and a second master suite in the loft. 2 additional main floor bedrooms. Open concept kitchen, living and dining, huge three-season sunroom. Fully contained bachelor unit over the garage with separate entrance. Separate workshop. Top quality finishes and mechanics. Dream home! $1,999,000

SPECTACULAR 94 ACRES Late 1800s brick farmhouse. Rolling land, forest, open fields, crops and phenomenal views. Live in the existing home or build your dream on this stunning acreage on Airport Rd in Hockley Valley. $1,499,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

NEWLY RENOVATED ON 10 ACRES Beautiful 4-bedroom brick home. Heated bathroom floors, indoor pool. Separate generous workshop for woodworker/car buff/storage. Private yard with deck, perennials and trails through the bush with stream. $1,140,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

LUXURY ERIN BUNGALOW Sun-filled custom bungalow on a private lot. Every detail for those who appreciate quality, two main floor bedrooms including master suite with fireplace. Spectacular open-concept kitchen, living and dining with personal wine cellar and tasting room. Lower level with high ceilings, two additional bedrooms and family room. The perfect sized home. $1,599,000

THE ART OF STONE 1866 farmhouse, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 4500 sq ft. Elegant features, crown mouldings, wainscoting, original baseboards and floors.

98 scenic acres. Plus 3-bedroom bungalow, studio/workshop. Metropolitan Orton. $2,299,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

GORGEOUS 101 ACRES Updated 3-bedroom original Victorian.

Meditative solarium, heated floor. Fabulous views. 44x66 ft hangar. 65 acres farmed.

Forest with trails and bunkie next to ponds.

Short walk to the Grand River. $1,699,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

BUNGALOW ON 3 ACRES Spacious home offers three self-contained living spaces, perfect for income or extended family. All on a private lot amongst nature and privacy. $1,295,000

INCOME PROPERTY Legal Acton duplex with a 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom unit; both with a separate garage and private backyard. Convenient to GO and shopping. Maintained to the highest standard. $879,000

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Switching Cars at Palgrave Station X heads along the main line to the west siding and backs B into the spur, leaving it there. X returns to the main line, enters the east siding, and pushes A to couple with B at the spur. X pulls both cars fully into the east siding, uncouples from them, and heads to the spur via the main line and west siding. From the spur, X pushes A and B along the east siding until A alone is on the main line, and uncouples the cars. X returns to the main line, couples to A, pulls it westward, and pushes it into the west siding.

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Time Yourself II Each of the six words has a homonym: currant, bye, do, phase, lone, eight. (The average for our test group, 5 people, was 18 seconds.)

Adding to Your Adjective Kit for Shapes I : campanulate (bell shaped) II : vermiform (worm-like) III : papilionaceous (butterfly-like) IV : ampullaceous (round like a bottle) V : fulgurous (in the shape of a lightning bolt) VI : infundibular (like a funnel) The Jolly Morphology Club Gets Sentimental Forest: anagrammed to ‘softer’ and ‘foster’

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Just before sunrise a freight train left a fully loaded freight car (B) on the west siding at the Hamilton and Northwestern Railway station in Mono Road, and on the east siding, left freight car (A), also with a heavy load. When the station master arrived that morning he knew the cars had to be switched, a task that would need a yard engine (X) equipped with couplers front and rear. Fortunately, he was able to call in such an engine from the Palgrave station not far away.

Both sidings at Mono Road station connect to a spur long enough to park a freight car or an engine but not both at once.

Describe how the engine can switch the cars.

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Maisie notices a ladder leaning against the eaves on the south side of the library in Inglewood and imagines she is standing on one of its rungs. If, in her imagination, she were to go up four rungs, down seven and then up ten, she would be on the very top rung. From here, still in her imagination, if she were to go down nine rungs, up three, and then down ten to reach the bottom rung, how many rungs must the ladder have?

Try to solve this using mental imagery – no pen or paper.

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How many seconds will it take you to determine what these words have in common?

What day is two days after the day after the day before yesterday?

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The Jolly Morphology Club Gets Sentimental

To describe something as pemphigoid, rather than simply saying bubble-like or shaped like a blister, may seem verbally ostentatious, but some descriptors of shape and form can be useful, and if used sparingly, even entertaining.

A century ago, during prohibition, the owners of this former pub covered over a poster advertising a Canadian distillery with a sheet of plain paper on which they presented this poem.

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Match each to the appropriate shape above.

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Prohibition is Real. So is Romance!

Through the wwwwww trees Softly coo the doves Let a wwwwww breeze wwwwww youthful loves The pub’s patrons were challenged to select the one word from the list below that could be inserted into one of the heartfilled spaces and then anagrammed to fill in the other two words to complete the poem.

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