Standing Rock Caves Trail We have now hiked this trail in every season and this is still my favourite hike around Collingwood. This hike combines the blue-blazed Standing Rock and Singhampton Side Trails with the white-blazed main Bruce Trail.…
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I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate and have over 3000 logged dives. In 1978, I was lucky enough to travel to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun to do some snorkelling for a few days.…
Quidi Vidi Village (above). After more than two years of waiting, we finally managed to get to Newfoundland this summer for two weeks with our friends Dorothy and Mark from Victoria. After settling in to our hotels and a…
Over the past three years, Yim and I have shifted to a plant based diet and along the way, we’ve started paying more attention to our bodies and what we need more of as we age. Collagen is one…
Nine years ago, when we bought our property, one of the reasons we bought here was because there was a 200 foot ecological nature preserve surrounding the development, which meant there were large trees directly in front of our…
For every gram of fibre we eat, we can increase our stool by nearly two grams, due to the fiber fermentation process in our colon. Why should we care how much we poop as long as we aren’t constipated? …
The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, east of downtown, which is made up of numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within incredible heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. At…
We used to believe that our DNA was our destiny. The exciting news is that our lifestyle choices can impact our DNA. In 2009, Elizabeth Blackburn and her colleagues won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for unlocking the mysteries of…
The Grotto, up north of us, in the Bruce Peninsula National Park, has become one of Southern Ontario’s most popular tourist destinations in the summer. Located near Tobermory, it’s close to lots of other tourist destinations such as Fathom…
I first met Michael and Mark Vansteenkiste of Twin Pines Orchards & Cider House in the summer of 2016. I was developing an organic Hard Cider with another partner and I called and asked them if they had a…
