Harrowsmith

Harrowsmith is still the reliable go-to for gardeners, weekend carpenters, homesteaders, hobby farmers and urban dwellers with romantic fantasies of country life. Harrowsmith publishes four issues a year in conjunction with the seasons--three print issues and a summer digital exclusive.

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A Postcard From the Edge

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Mailbox • LETTERS, EMAILS AND SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS FROM OUR READERS.

MISCELLANY A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF ABOUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF • Each issue, we showcase products, ideas and places that we know you’ll love, too.

BOOKSHELF • What’s keeping us up at night.

Did Your Know ?

A CUP OF WITH A LOCAL • Enjoy a virtual Yukon Sour Toe cocktail, moose sausage and Caveman Bill lore with Dawson City filmmaker Suzanne Crocker.

FARMHOUSE FARE • When meals are made for hard-working farm folk, they can’t help but be filling and nutritious. We think they’re pretty heartwarming, too.

GOOD TO THE LAST DROP

Harrowsmith Radio • Guests You’ll Love, Topics That Matter

GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW! • Why cook someone’s goose when you can have duck instead?

IS DUCK A HEALTHY CHOICE?

THE ULTIMATE HARVEST SIX-PACK PINT-SIZED SONGS TO PAIR WITH YOUR SUNDOWNER. • Harrowsmith food editor Signe Langford provided this issue’s ultimate farmhouse-fare lineup to lean back on, but what should you pair with it? While these craft beers can hold their own ground, they are also designed to elevate everything from our Farmhouse Cabbage Rolls to our Blueberry Peach Maple Upside Down Cake. Do you know what else pairs well with Canadian beers? Our homegrown musicians!

THE ROCK THAT ROLLS WITH THE PUNCHES • How farmers in Newfoundland have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CAN WE GROW RICE IN CANADA? • FangZheng’s experimental paddy crop in Ontario says yes!

Smoked Game and Fake Caviar: The Black-Market Meat Trade

OUT OF SEASON? SAYS WHO? • THERE IS NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO ABOUT THE CANADIAN GROWING SEASON—ITS BREVITY IS JUST A FACT OF LIFE FOR CANADIAN GARDENERS.WE LIKE TO SAY THAT CANADIAN GARDENERS GET 4 TO 6 MONTHS OFF, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE.

COLD CROPS • How to give your garden the cold shoulder.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses in Alberta • How to enjoy them, from blooms to hips.

Here to Use Are R Some osehips Ways

CELEBRATING FALL GARDENING TRADITIONS • How our gardens can connect us at a deeper level.

SMALL farms

CABERNEIGH FARM • Uxbridge, Ontario, @caberneighfarm (Facebook)

HAGENLEA BEEF, BRODHAGEN FAMILY FARM • Stratford, Ontario

THE JUNGLE FARM • Red Deer County, Alberta thejunglefarm.com

KING COLE DUCKS LTD. • Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario kingcoleducks.com

REGAL POINT ELK FARM • Wiarton, Ontario regalpointelk.com

COOKSTOWN GREENS • Thornton, Ontario cookstowngreens.com

ANDRE’S ALPACAS • Hanover, Ontario andresalpacas.ca

DURHAM HONEY • Port Perry, Ontario durhamhoney.ca

WELCOME TO your 2021 WEATHER PAGES!

THE NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO) AND COVID-19 • Did this weather phenomenon contribute to the spread of the deadly virus in Europe?

ATLANTIC PROVINCES REGION 1

QUEBEC REGION 2

ONTARIO REGION 3

THE PRAIRIES REGION 4

BRITISH COLUMBIA REGION 5

YUKON & WESTERN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES REGION 6

EASTERN NORTHWEST TERRITORIES & NUNAVUT REGION 7

Harrowsmith’s ALMANAC ASTRONOMICAL 2021

GUIDANCE for BEGINNERS HOW TO READ OUR CHARTS

IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS OF 2021

MAGNIFYING YOUR MACRO-VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE •...