Seed Sources 2013
Your guide to seed houses & specialty nurseries across Canada... our 34th annual edition... with 130 entries... 40 new entries... Our most comprehensive survey ever!
Mac & Cheese
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Rural Living... but were afraid to ask
Ode to the Canadian Automobile
First Aid Through The Ages
Natural Beauties
Burden of Fame
Words Of Wisdom From The World-Famous Dionne Sisters On The Occasion Of Their 75th Birthday
Going to Town
The Ballad Of The Retired Prairie Farmer
Mac & Cheese
Macaroni and cheese must be just about everyone’s favourite comfort food. Informal as this dish may be, you’re going to want to invite a few friends over to sample it. Makes 8 servings.
Canada’s Best Potato-Leek Soup
Here is a time-honored recipe for leek soup that has been given a little flavour boost with the addition of blue cheese. It's a great late-season recipe, using leeks, potatoes and herbs that are still growing in the garden. Serves 6.
Spinach Salad With Cashews And Grilled Chicken
With or without the grilled chicken, this is a terrific salad with a hint of asian flavours. It is perfect as a main course on a warm summer evening and, of course, it’s one of the best ways to get your daily serving of dark, leafy greens.
Chewing up the Scenery
Popular Plants Can Poison Your Pets.
A Little Patch of Heaven
What's the Best Hardy Lavender to Grow from Seeds? Best of the Harrowsmith Garden Trials.
Silk Purse
Making the most of a Canadian growing season
Nip & Tuck
Facelifting An Aging Apple Tree
Natural Beauties
A peek at the peaks of Yoho and Glacier National Parks, celebrating their 125th this year!
Off The Deep End
Taking The Plunge—Without A Lot Of Chlorine
Stranger Danger?
Across Canada, small towns and rural places are being transformed by an influx of urban people. What are they looking for? And what have they got to offer us?
Loreena McKennitt’s Tour of Morden, Manitoba
Loreena McKennitt is one of Canada’s most successful international artists, having sold more than 14 million albums around the world and achieved gold and multi-platinum status in more than 15 countries.
Les Stroud’s Tour of Huntsville, Ontario
Husband, father, filmmaker, singer-songwriter, wilderness guide and, most notably, the writer-producer-director-host of an award-winning television series, Stroud is hard to pigeonhole.
Anne Heggtveit’s Tour of Lac Philippe, Quebec
Stepping onto a pair of skis for the first time at the tender age of two, Anne Heggtveit wasted little time making herself known as a skier. The daughter of cross-country ski champion Halvor Heggtveit, she won her first alpine race, the Ladies Senior Slalom and Combined Events at Wakefield, Quebec, at the age of seven.
Ode to the Canadian Automobile
Even though they cost the earth...even though we spend endless hours in traffic...even though they are one of the worst culprits behind the global warming crisis...cars still capture the hearts of canadians. Here’s a nostalgic look at our continuing—if jaded—love affair with the automobile.
Calling All Readers: Whatsit?
...Agrarian Apparatus - Agri-Aids - Ancient Appliances - Arcadian Artifacts - Bygone Brainwaves - Bucolic Bits - Country Contrivances - Country-Fried Cleverness - Countryside Creations - Cultivator’s Contraptions - Down-Home Doodads - Early Equipment - From Forgotten Farms - Grandma’s Gizmos - Grassroots Gadgets - Hinky Doohickeys - Homestead Helpers - Municipal Mechanisms – Olden Oddities - Pastoral Patents - Pioneer Projects - Rural Rarities - Rustic Resourcefulness - Used Utensils - Victorian Varia - Wagons And Whatchamacallits - One-Time Wonders - Yokes Of Yore...
Quiz Winner: Whatsit?
Most every old barn hides a “whatsit” or two. Whatsits are once-useful gadgets that have been gathering grime for generations, having long outlived their original purpose. Today, these found items are nothing less than a mystery to most barn owners. Heck, some of the doodads we collected for our quiz last year even stumped our panel of experts.
Groundhog Day in Canada
Wiarton Willie Casts A Big Shadow
Stompin’ Tom Connors’ 3000-year Calendar
Canadian music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors has agreed to share with the readers of HARROWSMITH’S TRULY CANADIAN ALMANAC a calendar he created.
Going, Going, Gone?
Here is their latest inventory of this country’s heritage livestock, sorted out by the number of registrations of pure breeding female stock.
Heirlooms in the Barnyard
There’s more than nostalgia at work In the effort to preserve rare livestock breeds.