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AUGUST 2010
No. 213

Almanac

16 Scenes from the Sideroad
An iconic summer landscape in rural Alberta. Photograph by Wayne Barrett

18 This Suds’ For You!
They’re well off the beaten path, but these backroads breweries are worth the detour. By Jason Santerre

22 Last One In’s a Rotten Egg!
How an old Nova Scotia kitchen wound up as the showpiece in a local family’s backyard project.
By Tom Cruickshank

24 Corn 4 Sale Ahead
Adopt a businesslike strategy to help sell a bounty of corn from your farm gate. By Kate Aley

26 My Life with Lyme
Thoughts on living with Lyme
disease from someone who never thought she’d be an authority.
By Vanessa Farnsworth

28 Hydro Fracturing
Here’s an unsung alternative to drilling a new well. It’s also a lot cheaper. By Fiona Wagner

30 Drinks Are on Me
Three fabulous thirst quenchers whose main ingredients are as close as your backyard. By Darlene King

32 Food Banks Go Rural
Alas, it seems food banks aren’t just
an urban phenomenon these days.
By Nancy Payne

36 Secrets of Successful
Tomatoes
Little tips that go a long way to ensuring that your tomato harvest will be the very best. By Bridget Wayland

38 Amber Waves of Grain
A primer for non-farmers who would like to identify the crops they see by the roadside. By Tom Cruickshank

40 Stand Tall
A tour of the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Reserve is a reminder of just how much of our natural grasslands have been plowed under. By Jason Santerre

42 Farm Fields and Sewage Sludge
The old debate resurfaces over the wisdom of using municipal sewage as farm fertilizer. By Candice Vetter

44 Hummers at the Feeder
An amateur birdwatcher’s guide to the hummingbirds that just might appear at your feeder this year. By Dan Needles

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Features

46 Red Ripe Raspberries
A salute to the raspberry, one of the
best things about summer: how to grow them and how to cook with them.
A Harrowsmith Country Life Staff
Report with Recipes by Darlene King

58 Go Your Own Way
A couple keen on living the green life shows how it is done in the design of their rural dream home. By Tom Cruickshank

68 On the Right Path
Some inspirational ideas from a tranquil garden on Prince Edward Island. By Joyce Glasner

Departments

Greetings 6
Mailbox 9
The Harrowsmirh
Companion 10
The Gazette 74
Bulletin Board 76
Snapshots 81
Dan Needles 82

Contributors

Freelancer Candice Vetter has written for over 20 publications on subjects ranging from romance to hot political topics. Raised on a farm in Alberta, she now lives with her carpenter husband in a 150-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario. She became interested in biosolids when she covered the Vernon protest meeting for her local newspaper, The News. The more she uncovered, the more she saw the need to ask questions, and the more she realized that no one knew the answers. See page 42.

Nancy Payne lives in the country near Lindsay, Ontario, where she serves on the board of the Kawartha Lakes Food Source. She was the writer of choice when the subject of rural food banks came up. Her article appears on page 32.

Vanessa Farnsworth can provide a unique, authoritative angle on the subject of Lyme disease, for she lives with the chronic condition every day. The Creston, B.C., resident shares her thoughts on page 24. An accomplished horticultural writer, her work has appeared in several Canadian gardening magazines.

Fiona Wagner is a writer and blogger who, in her own words, “blogs about the blisses and misses of her life as a greenhorn farmer, wanna-be homesteader and stay-at-home mama, from 71 acres in small-town Ontario.” Sounds like a typical Harrowsmith reader. “Hydro-Fracturing,” her first article for us, appears on page 28. More of her work at www.fionawagner.com

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