Tag: gardening
Common Ground – July 2023
“Do what we can, summer will have its flies. If we walk in the woods, we must feed the mosquitoes.” Emerson My friend the Wind Chime Hater is convinced that the mosquitoes are bigger…
Selwyn Garlic Farms Offers a Variety of Garlic Products in all Shapes and Sizes
Sean and Theresa Wilson produce garlic on their farm in Selwyn and operate a booth at the Millbrook Farmers’ Market. Sean has a history in dairy farming in the Hamilton area. In 1995 he…
Common Ground – June 2023
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” Walt Whitman A passing walker asked me if I wasn’t depressed to be deadheading the last of spring’s daffodils. I replied that this…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Common Ground – May 2023
“May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, fair fresshe May.” – Chaucer Back in the depths of winter I was asked, probably rhetorically, why we live here. I will answer…