Harrowsmith Summer 2019 | 5SIGNE LANGFORD, from Hudson,
Quebec, is a restaurant chef turned
writer who tells award-winning
stories, creates delicious recipes, and
published her award-winning book,
Happy Hens & Fresh Eggs: Keeping
Chickens in the Kitchen Garden, With
100 Recipes, in 2015. Her work as a chef
has garnered excellent reviews and
four-star ratings. Signe shares her Port
Hope, Ontario, Victorian home with
a menagerie of rescued critters and
backyard hens. For more stories and
recipes, visit signelangford.com.
SARAH LOTEN is a full-time sheep
farmer in eastern Ontario. Along
with her husband and five children,
who regularly get conscripted for free
labour, she manages several hundred
acres, hundreds of sheep, too many
dogs and not enough horses. On that
last point, her husband would beg to
differ. When not farming, she can be
found training in a dressage ring or
teaching therapeutic riding and music.
STEVE MAXWELL and his wife,
Mary, live on a 90-acre modern
homestead on Manitoulin Island,
Ontario, in a stone house they built
with local materials beginning in 1985.
Steve is Canada’s longest-running
home improvement and how-to
columnist. He divides his time working
on the land, building things large and
small, and creating articles and how-to
videos that teach sustainable, self-
reliant, hands-on living skills. Steve’s
baileylineroad.com website is named
after the rural road where he and
Mary live with their five kids.DAN NEEDLES is the author of the
Wingfield Farm series of stage plays.
His latest book, True Confessions
From the Ninth Concession, is
published by Douglas & McIntyre.PHIL NORTON uses his experience
as a photojournalist and writer to
educate the public on the importance
of protecting the quality and quantity
of Canada’s water resources. During
the 1980s, his articles on acid rain
and maple dieback in Harrowsmith
won two National Magazine
Awards. Based in Prince Edward
County, he now leads birding and
photography tours and coaches
other photographers on how to
make a living in a rural area through
countyphotographer.com.
TRISTAN PEIRCE was born and raised
in Hudson, Quebec, and now calls Port
Hope, Ontario, home. By day, Tristan
is an actor and site manager at the
award-winning 4th Line Theatre in
Millbrook, Ontario; by night, he works
on his photography.LINDAN COURTEMANCHE (NEEDLES)