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.
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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.
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True Confessions from the Ninth Concession
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