Mar/Apr 2025 Issue

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What's Inside Mar/Apr 2025

Features

Out of the Marsh and Into the Fire
By Andrea Yu
The Sleemans don’t go to the cottage to get away from it all. It’s where their work begins.
School of Rocks
By Fiona McGlynn
Create your dream cottage property with nature’s most enduring material. Here’s how to landscape with stone.
Trouble in the Water
By Philip Preville
Who gets to decide how the lake will develop? The cottagers on Muldrew Lakes are struggling to find the right answer.
The Boats That Keep Us Afloat
By Michelle Kelly & Bob Sexton
We asked you to share your quirkiest, coolest, most peculiar watercraft—and the stories that make them so.

Departments

Waterfront
Take our mouse-proofing quiz; fish habitat restoration; meet the green heron; games to play in nature; cottagers who left the lake—and then came back; best boating slang; pantry stocking and food storage tips
Workshop
Hockey stick shed; uses for grease guns; best security screens; how to prep your fireplace; OBC update; tips to rehab your drill’s chuck
Cottage Q&A
By Jackie Davis
A lake’s best water level; mouse control 101; road association insurance; cleaning composite and steel

Forces for Nature
By Andrea Curtis
If cormorants aren’t bad for the environment, can we bear to let them live?
Style Ideas
By Beth Hitchcock
Check out six magical cottages on the Cape Breton coast.
Nature Scrapbook
By Tim Tiner
The spore-spreading field horsetail grows almost anywhere.