Planning Starts Now for Blocks and Blooms

Distinctive gardens, heritage properties and the Airing of the Quilts is a triple-threat treat that, in 2018, brought hundreds of visitors to the area for a day of spectacular colour and beauty, and it is time we did it again.  A team with the Millbrook & Cavan Historical Society is… Continue reading

A.C.E. Tree Care

Anthony Weinczok is a certified arborist, who has operated his tree care business out of Millbrook for the past 12 years.  He offers complete tree care, from planting, pruning, cabling, removal, stump grinding and lot and road clearing.  Anthony helps property owners establish and maintain these beautiful and practical workhorses… Continue reading

Purity Hemp Products Provide Locally-Sourced Nutrition Boost

The farm on Mount Pleasant Road has been in the family since 1966.  When JoAnne Kennedy was growing up here, her family raised beef cattle. Like many young people, JoAnne’s future plans took her away from the farm and she trained and began to work in Toronto as a cartographer. … Continue reading

Grow Your Own Produce at the Community Garden

Finally spring weather is here and we can start work in the Millbrook community garden. The garden is located next to the Old Millbrook School (where the library is) with a beautiful center flower garden looked after beautifully by some local volunteers. There are 12 individual plots that can be… Continue reading

Otonabee Microgreens

Newly minted Environmental Studies graduate Max Chalovich was eager to get his business started and launched Otonabee Microgreens before his studies were complete. This young entrepreneur is encouraging us to boost our nutritional consumption with microgreens. These are very young vegetable seedlings harvested within a few weeks of germination.  Unlike… Continue reading

We Welcome Spring – Extend Your Living Space to the Outdoors

Are you eagerly anticipating getting out of the house to enjoy the warmer weather, the song of the birds, the beauty of the colourful gardens, and the fragrance of fresh cut grass?  Our patios and decks are the perfect place to extend our living space.  It’s time to open those… Continue reading

Common Ground – April 2023

“The drama of spring is not always very well staged…. too often it proceeds jerkily, with the halts and repetitions of a rehearsal instead of the sustained rhythm of a finished performance.”                                 Jason Hill The vast expanse of ice and snow has started to retreat for the second time this… Continue reading