Harrowsmith

Established in 1976 Issue No. 34 Publisher Yolanda Thornton yolanda@moongate.ca Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Reynolds jennifer@moongate.ca Art Direction and Design Michael Roussetos Food Editor ILona Daniel Home and Farm Editor Steve Maxwell Gardenin

Dear Harrowsmith team, I really appreciated your sustainable gift selections and the ideas in your winter magazine. Because of you, my closest friends received the gifts of CSA (community supported agriculture) food boxes and they can’t wait to recei

It’s my favourite time of year. I know I say that every spring. I can’t wait for the bulbs to pop up in my front garden and I am pretty sure I say that every spring, too. It’s definitely the time of year to dream big and here are 4 things I am lookin

This year, the official Spring Equinox (first day of spring) will occur on March 20th at 5:24 p.m. EDT for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Celebrate this day when the sun crosses the equator line and heads north bringing with it these signs o

The sun was not up when I arose.It lay sleeping, the clouds were close.The sky was shot with pink and grey,With a hint of promise of a new day. Spring was coming to Bow Lake,With a hint of what the day would make.But now it was a false dawn.All was s

Harrowsmith’s meteorology expert, Mark Sirois, shares the weather highlights each region in Canada can expect this spring. Slightly warmer than normal temperatures can be expected this spring despite a cool start. Precipitation should be slightly abo

Harrowsmith’s astronomy expert, Robert Dick, outlines what you’ll see in the night sky this spring. Venus appears very close to Jupiter at the beginning of the month. However, their actual distances from us are 205 million km and 664 million km, resp