Life Stories

    Creating Our Backyard

    One of the things I have come to enjoy during this new phase in my life of not having to go to work is the ongoing landscaping development in our yard. It’s something I missed more than I thought when we moved back to Victoria from Belize and had a very small yard – which I also spent a considerable amount of time landscaping but with our current home here in Collingwood, we bought a fairly nice sized piece of…

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  • Life Stories

    Family…

    Early July of 2022 found us all getting dressed up for the first time in several years to attend an old friends family wedding. It was an occasion I wanted us…

  • Hiking Travel

    Standing Rock Caves Trail

    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…

  • Hiking Travel

    Newfoundland

    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.…

  • Conservation

    Protecting The Pretty River

    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…

  • Plant Based Recipes

    Fibre and Poop…

    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…

  • Travel

    The Distillery District

    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…

  • Plant Based Recipes

    Foods that protect Telomeres…

    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…

  • Hiking Travel

    The Grotto in January

    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…

  • Creative Direction

    Twin Pine Orchards

    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…

  • Hiking Travel

    Nottawasaga Bluffs

    The Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area is a 400-acre jewel on the Escarpment. The unique geology has created a veritable land before time, as deep crevasses cut their way through the hardwood…