TRUE CONFESSIONS FROM THE NINTH CONCESSION
Dan Needles
Dan was born in Toronto and raised partly in the city and partly in the country. His mother moved the family out of the city each spring to a hobby farm near Rosemont, Ontario where he and his brothers and sisters tended to a herd of Jersey cows and worked on the neighbouring farms of the 7th Line. www.danneedles.ca
Storm of the Century
True Confessions From the Ninth Concession
Finding Traction on the Back Roads
True Confessions From the Ninth Concession
Retreating from the Retreat
This little plot I live on used to be a farm. I still feed a few sheep and a couple of cows but at some point while I wasn’t paying attention the farm has slowly morphed into a retreat.
True Confessions From the Ninth Concession – Varmints at the Gate
When the snow finally retreated last spring, someone made a grisly discovery on a secluded lot behind a church on the edge of town. Scattered within...
True Confessions from the Ninth Concession
When I bought this little farm in the 1970s, I had no illusions about being a farmer. Even back then, the idea of cultivating a plot of forty acres...
A Short, Factual History of the Almanac
Veteran Harrowsmith contributor Dan Needles examines the medieval origins of the Almanac.
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