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Bruce Head is kawarthaNOW.com's managing editor, chief technical officer, and a contributing writer. If he has any spare time, he enjoys songwriting, playing acoustic guitar, and taking photos of Cait the border collie.
Rose Terry's business Nectar Co. creates custom keepsake jewellery using items people want to preserve and hold close to them, including breast milk, cremation ashes, and more. (Photo courtesy of Rose Terry)

Peterborough’s Rose Terry launches unique keepsake jewellery business

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Nectar Co. creates hand-crafted custom pieces from items people want to preserve and hold close to them, including breast milk.
Deb and Ken Fraser are retiring as owners and operators of The Main Ingredient bulk food store at 326 Charlotte Street in Peterborough. The store will continue on under new ownership. (Photo: The Main Ingredient / Facebook)

After 43 years, Ken and Deb Fraser retiring as owners of The Main Ingredient...

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Possibly Canada's oldest bulk food store, the Charlotte Street store will continue under new ownership.
Sam's Place Deli is vying to retain their Mac + Cheese Champion crown at the second annual Peterborough Mac + Cheese Festival with their Mac & Cheese Loafwich, one of 19 traditional, adventurous, and vegan mac and cheese dishes available at participating downtown restaurants during the month-long festival in October. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

Grab your stretchy pants: the Peterborough Mac + Cheese Festival returns in October

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Month-long self-guided foodie festival features 19 traditional, adventurous, and vegan mac and cheese dishes at downtown restaurants.
The Cornish family of Indian River Acres (Kevin Cornish and Janet Dawson and their sons Liam and Lucas) are the Peterborough County Federation of Agriculture's 2022 Farm Family of the Year. (Photo courtesy of Cornish family)

The Cornish family of Indian River Acres is Peterborough County’s Farm Family of the...

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Kevin Cornish and Janet Dawson own and operate the 93-acre farm where the family grows and sells fresh vegetables and fall décor items.
Mother-and-daughter team Lorraine and Emily Forbes have sold the Cow & Sow Eatery in Fenelon Falls to local business owners Sandy and Haley Pickering of On The Locks restaurant. (Photo: Cow & Sow Eatery / Facebook)

Cow & Sow Eatery in Fenelon Falls under new ownership September 15

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On The Locks owners Sandy and Haley Pickering purchase recently renovated restaurant from mother-and-daughter team Lorraine and Emily Forbes.
Anna Eidt and Erin Ebenbauer (née Watson) are amicably parting ways after five years as co-owners of downtown creative arts shop Watson & Lou. With Eidt having returned to her roots in music education, Ebenbauer will assume full ownership of the shop. (Photo: Watson & Lou)

Anna Eidt and Erin Ebenbauer of Watson & Lou in downtown Peterborough are amicably...

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With Eidt returning to her music education roots, Ebenbauer will assume full ownership with plans to bring back creative workshops in January 2023.
Taso Hatzianastasiou, owner of Taso's Restaurant & Pizzeria in downtown Peterborough, at a pop-up restaurant event on September 3, 2022 at 18 Lindsay Road in Fowlers Corners. Taso'z has acquired the former location of Momma's Pizzeria and will be opening a second restaurant there. (Photo: Taso's Restaurant & Pizzeria)

Peterborough’s Taso’s Restaurant & Pizzeria to open second location in Fowlers Corners

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Pop-up restaurant event on Saturday sold out, with official opening date yet to be announced.
Peterborough teacher Aaron McFadden with his children at the prototype "tiny home" for people experiencing homelessness. McFadden will be sleeping in the cabin on Rubidge Street opposite Cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains overnight on September 3, 2022 to raise awareness and funds for the Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH), a grassroots initiative with the goal of creating a village of 50 tiny homes to help house some of the 317 people without a home in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of PATH)

Teacher to spend Saturday night in Peterborough’s first ‘tiny home’ for people experiencing homelessness

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Aaron McFadden's sleep-out will raise awareness about homelessness and funds for the Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes initiative.
Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, located on the border of the state of Michoacán, is a world heritage site containing most of the over-wintering sites of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly. Juan Antonio Ixtláhuac, mayor of the city of Zitácuaro in Michoacán, is one of the special guests from Mexico who will attend the 'Zitacuaro Summit' at the Market Hall in Peterborough on September 10, 2022, sharing a message of monarch butterfly conservation. (Photo: Monarch Ultra)

Mexican delegation will visit Peterborough to share message of monarch butterfly conservation

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Organized by the Monarch Ultra, the free 'Zitacuaro Summit' takes place at the Market Hall on September 10.
It looks like bacon, but it's actually made out of carrots. Peterborough-based startup Carrot Bacon recently won a North American innovation award for its vegan jerky and is expanded distribution to additional nationwide retailers. (Photo: Carrot Bacon)

Peterborough startup Carrot Bacon wins innovation award and expands national distribution

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Founded by Tyler Steeves, Carrot Bacon transforms carrots into a vegan and nutrient-rich jerky.
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