[features]
Lager Heads
A suds-sational tour of local craft breweries that use traditional ingredients and the artisanal skills of their entrepreneurial owners to produce genuine brews that are as far from a conventional pint as you can get.…
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The Canadian Company That Could
How often do you look at a label on a piece of clothing only to see that it was manufactured in Bangladesh or China? While much of Canada’s garment production has shifted to off-shore manufacturers, a Northumberland family quietly builds on the success of their Canadian made clothing line.…
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Ed’s House: Honouring the Journey
A community comes together to build a hospice that will be a centre of excellence that echoes the compassion and caring of the many volunteers who are determined to bring dignity to death.…
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Grassroots Democracy
Democracy is coming to a municipality near you this fall. What are the platforms of your local candidates and why is it so important to become involved? A former political pundit delves into the issues and delivers his insight.…
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[Fence Posts]
The View from the Top
Last year in this space i wrote about painting my barn. That was a totally unnecessary project and a shameless vanity because barns do not require paint. You only have to drive a mile into the countryside before you will find any number of barns that have been standing happily for over a century without a lick of paint.…
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[Must, Must, Must]
What’s New and What’s To Do
Our Must, Must, Must section highlights a broad range of events, festivals, activities and galleries that contribute to the diverse character of the Watershed region
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[Beyond the Garden Gate]
From Farmers’ Markets to Canada’s Top Restaurants
The Enright Cattle Company embodies a new approach to agriculture that focuses on sustainability and creativity. The sun is just about to slip below the horizon as Kara Enright and her son walk up from the lower field. Days are long at Enright Cattle Company. The chores are backbreaking, Mother Nature can prove difficult at the best of times…
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[Watershed Presents]
Prince Edward County’s 25th Anniversary Studio Tour
Prince Edward County’s iconic studio tour is celebrating a milestone anniversary with more artists, more locations and a commemorative book. Talking to Dale Wainwright, the chair of this year’s Prince Edward County Studio Tour made me think of something Peta Hall, founder of the tour, an acclaimed potter and arts activist…
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[Watershed Presents]
Cobourg Remembers the Great War
“The war came out of a clear sky” remembered Stephen Leacock of August 4, 1914, “the clear sky of vacation time, of the glory of the Canadian summer.” In the fashionable resort town of Cobourg, known as the Newport of the North, the harbour was dotted with pleasure craft and the horns from ferries sounded as they brought more…
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[George's Pond]
Weather-Obsessed
My kids think I’m a bit daft. I suspect Joy does too, but she’s less vocal about it. Honestly, I’m not sure they’re wrong. This is all about weather. I’m obsessed. I check the forecast maybe a dozen times a day starting when I pick up my iPad and log onto Environment Canada even before my morning coffee.…
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[Innovation]
A Heady Partnership
Province Brands and Loyalist College are on-track to deliver an industry game changer – Cannabis Beer. Dooma Wendschuh is a quirky, high energy guy. He’s also straight-laced and work-driven. In fact, Dooma isn’t even his real name, but a college nickname that he’s retained, partly for efficiency’s sake…
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[Habitat]
Lessons from the Forest
Time spent in the woods is one of life’s sublime and simple pleasures - unstructured time to think of nothing and everything all at once. As such, the experience of the woods might seem the polar opposite of what we commonly think of as ‘education’ with its classrooms, shut windows, rigid schedules and homogenous expectations…
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[Field Notes]
The Eastern Wild Turkey
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the local domestic turkey population must be gobbling with envy at their distant cousins, the eastern wild turkeys – the branch of the family that wander freely throughout the countryside and strut out of the ditch, onto the road in front of your car.…
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[Cultural Currents]
Leslie Fruman
Stepping into Leslie Fruman’s surrounds is tenfold the experience of Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, which houses the titanic Water Lily series of Claude Monet. In Fruman’s space, the lilies blanket her outdoor landscape, offering a daily panorama of oranges, whites and yellows. “My work in clay references my immediate world,”…
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[Meanderings]
The Winds of Change
The end of the First World War was a turning point for Canadian women. Between 1914 and 1918, they’d not only kept the home fires burning while the men served overseas, women had stepped into their shoes in offices, factories and farms and had run the social organizations that supplied the front with socks, cigarettes and food.…
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[Food & Drink Scene]
Craft Cideries in the Watershed Area
Welcome to the local Food & Drink Scene where Watershed shares its secrets and discoveries. Our region is blessed with creative chefs, restaurateurs, vintners and purveyors. Watershed’s Food & Drink Scene trumpets their accomplishments and celebrates their innovation.…
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