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All in the family – Kitchen Green Reno
It’s not every day that a family meal can boast views of a lake, bald eagle sightings overhead and the hoot-hoot of a great horned owl at night. But for Tim Agar and his family of four, that’s exactly what’s in store—at breakfast, lunch and dinner. In fact, it was the...
Making It Anywhere
We all need spaces to be creative, and the planet needs more of use to reuse and re-purpose our gadgets, appliances and machinery.
Back to the Land…Rover
It was back in my early years of elementary school when I first remember seeing one: There, projected on the gymnasium wall, bigger than life, was a Land Rover. The scene was from Born Free, the 1966 film about a couple who were working in a nature reserve in Kenya,...
Green with Envy
My partner and I sold our 150-year-old stone house in Galt, Ontario, in August 2016. We sold it on Facebook, actually, but that’s another story. Since then, we’ve zigzagged back and forth from Prince Edward County to Northumberland to Point Pelee to Long Point,...
Casey Grey, Passive House = Eco Home
For Casey Grey, founder and CEO of The Conscious Builder Inc., building his eco-friendly house was about more than building his dream home: it was also about showing others what can be done. “We knew we wanted to build something we felt good about and that aligned...
Home Is Where The Hearth Is
The fall of 2013 turned cold the day after the granite was unloaded and tarped, heralding the worst winter of my sixty-one years. But I am getting ahead of myself… This is not only a story about how my masonry heater was constructed, it’s also a love story: a love...
Harrowsmith Garden Digest Success Story
The Harrowsmith brand has been enthusiastically embraced by readers across Canada.