by PDR-Kellie | Jun 11, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Simcoe County
Never mind all the questions – where’s it grown, how’s it grown, is it grass-fed or corn? You can leave those at home for this trip to market. Entirely made up of local ecological farmers (many members of the Simcoe County Chapter of Ecological...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 3, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Issues, Ontario, Recommended, Seasons, Simcoe County, World, Writing Life
Last year I spent some time chatting with a few local farmers to produce an article about the importance and ease of eating from the fields in the county I call home. Called Think Fresh, Eat Locally, the article is in the May/June issue of Simcoe Life magazine. With...
by PDR-Kellie | Feb 26, 2008 | Orillia, Seasons, Simcoe County
A hint of spring arrived this Sunday. The sky was blue and the bright sun ate away at our – no exaggeration – six-foot snowbanks. We decided to take advantage of the weather by heading out into one of our local public forests, for a turn around a...
by PDR-Kellie | Jan 8, 2008 | Ontario, Simcoe County, Writing Life
Having returned refreshed from my holiday hiatus, I am ready to atone for the blogger’s sin of disappearing off the face of the earth for over eight days… With a brand new year comes some freshly published clips to share. Last winter, when January was...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 5, 2007 | Going Green, Seasons, Simcoe County
When I was a kid growing up in Northern Ontario, getting a Christmas tree often involved bumping down some icy back road, breaking trail into the forest and cutting one down. That might make some environmentalists cringe, but not as much as plastic. The verdict has...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 3, 2007 | Ontario, Simcoe County
Last year, my family went for a walk on Christmas Day. The grass was green. The sky was blue. Halfway down the road to the park, I took off my jacket. With predictions for the coldest winter in fifteen years, it’s pretty clear we won’t be doing that this...
