Harrowsmith – September 2019

236 its capitalist bent, including some American draft dodgers and some city kids, found a safe haven on a remote island, living ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 237 it’s not being taken care of by its mother. We receive letters from visitors saying they are going t ...

238 education for the family. Ian is an engineer. He saw their farm on the outskirts of Toronto become Winston Churchill Bouleva ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 239 A cuppa tea is the key, reckons Adam MacLean. The bootstrapping shepherd, taking a cue from generati ...

240 MacLean explains that it is challenging to enter agriculture without a massive investment of financial capital and he wasn’t ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 241 a helping hand (or many helping hands, as it turned out) from neighbours and fellow farmers. Access ...

242 TRAVEL & CULTURE: WILDWIND PASTURES emotional and material support; without them, I couldn’t do this,” he says. That lis ...

243 Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 243 Your guide to farm-speak, buzzwords in the kitchen, birder talk and Scrabble domination! BY JULE ...

244 Jack and Jill bathroom Most often landlocked between two bedrooms, a Jack and Jill bathroom allows for private and separate ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 245 whisky jack wool rousies spatchcocking Similar to butterflying, the term spatchcocking refers to spl ...

246 Excerpted from I Call Myself a Prospector by Bob Durnin, with Frank Durnin (Coreshack Publications, 2015). Available at amaz ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 247 and thereafter (until about Christmas), walk circles around the base of the tree. Mice will not burr ...

Excerpted from Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life © Julia Rothman, 2011. Illustrations by © Julia Rothma ...

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250 Excerpted from Free to a Good Home: With Room for Improvement by Jules Torti, with permission from Caitlin Press (2019). Now ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 251 few times back and forth, one of those houses being the one my mom was born in. There were second co ...

252 hipster movement. All this media attention about conserving water and showering in non- peak hours—we’d been doing that sinc ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 253 surgery pictures were great to pull out from under the table to quickly gross out Dax so we could qu ...

254 A Canadian is the only person who stands out on the veranda on a bright, warm, windless spring day, as the birds sing and th ...

Harrowsmith Fall 2019 | 255 So, like a good ship captain, I steered around the storm by keeping the wind on my right. During the ...