Multi-media artist inspired by her Back Forty
Given that artist Deborah Farquharson is inspired by and makes most of her work in the Mulmur area, Curiosity House is the perfect venue for Farquharson’s first solo show, My Back Forty. Having spent much of her weekend and vacation life in Mulmur, first at her family’s farm and now the one she shares with […]
Local artists teach art in Nunavut every year
In 2005, Nottawa’s Rob Saley and Clarksburg’s Paul Mantrop took their first artist trip to the Canadian Arctic. They were part of a Group of Seven Southern Georgian Bay artists’ collective known as Drawnonward, onboard an Adventure Canada ship that visited several Arctic communities. “We were just blown away by the north and after seeing […]
New Farm raises over $100,000 for good food organizations
The set up on Saturday morning took place in the rain, but by the time the farm gates opened at 5:30 p.m., the sun was shining upon Creemore’s The New Farm. Over the course of the afternoon, close to 900 guests mixed and mingled celebrating fabulous food and drink and singing and dancing to the […]
Creemore ultra runner breaks Canadian record
If you’ve seen Creemore’s Lee Anne Cohen, 61, running her 50-kilometre loop around Creemore again and again, you’ve probably wondered what she’s up to. All her determined training has paid off. Over Labour Day weekend, Cohen ran in The Race for the Ages in Tennessee and was successful in setting the new Canadian record for […]
Artist from tiny hamlets goes big on cities
Dunedin artist, Steve McDonald, has published his first book – Fantastic Cities: A Colouring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined. An adult colouring book, it is filled with 48 pages of McDonald’s detailed cityscape drawings. From cities as diverse as Tokyo to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to Amsterdam and Creemore, the book offers detailed aerials, […]
The Hip rocks in support of good-food initiative
Despite last Saturday’s heat warning and threats of thunderstorms, The New Farm’s annual fundraiser in support of Grow for The Stop went off without a hitch. The evening brought fantastic food, music, friends and community together to celebrate and support access to good food. 750 guests dined on local food served by talented chefs who […]
Creemore Vertical Challenge
On Saturday, nearly 200 ultra runners will descend on Creemore for the ninth annual Creemore Vertical Challenge (CVC). There will be three different races run along a combination of private trails and roads – a 25-km, 50-km or 75-km. The 25-km is part of the Ontario Trails Series and the 50-km and 75-km races are […]
1-in-3 bites of the food made possible by pollinators
As part of North America’s National Pollinator Week June 15-21, Mulmur’s own Not So Hollow Farm and their event partner, The North American Native Plant Society, are hosting the first, and hopefully annual, “Bees to Butterflies and Beyond” event. It is an all-day affair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. The […]
Spring Peepers: Heard, but not seen
They are one of the first harbingers of spring – the ongoing chorus of loud, high pitched peeps coming from our wooded areas and grassy wetlands. Although they sound like sleigh bells, they are the mating calls of tiny male frogs called Spring Peepers (Pseudacris Crucifer). Heard more often than they are seen, this frog […]
SCI students have fun while getting their hands dirty
Mike Wheatcroft, a teacher at Stayner Collegiate Institute (SCI), speaks to his class of Grade 10 students, explaining what they need to get done. He assigns some students to watering the hundreds of vegetables and herbs that are growing throughout the school’s new greenhouse. Other students are asked to plant onions or transplant tiny seedlings […]