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A Short Guide to Alternative Tree Syrups

Increased maple syrup production has turned many sugar bushes into monocultures. For healthier forests, it’s time to diversify our taste in tree syrups.

The New Cow-House

Au Gré des Champs puts humans — and animals — back at the heart of the farm.

Juliette Leblanc

Rising Above Despair

An Afghan climber summits for a nation of women, then flees in search of a new life.

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

A Beginner’s Guide to Finding Wild Mushrooms

Want to start foraging for mushrooms this fall? You have to find them first. Three expert forayers from Québec, Ontario, and New York share their tips and tricks.

Jade Prévost-Manuel

Magic Is Other People

The wonderfully multidisciplinary Montréal creator Khoa Lê opens up about his love of incongruity, intimacy, and celebrating our elders, in this interview from Issue 13 of BESIDE.

Catherine Métayer

The Little Boy and the Sea

At the foot of the mountain in Bromont, Noah Forand runs fast but grows up slowly and a little differently than others. Without knowing it, he’s teaching his family and friends l’art de vivre.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

Travel One Sip at a Time

Author Rose Simard offers us cocktails that combine local ingredients, seasonal alcohols, and the craftsmanship of Québec artisans: a sure way to make summer last!

Imprinting Memories with Gyotaku

Alexis Aubin-Laperrière has spent the last few years dedicating himself to gyotaku, a traditional printing technique from Japan. In the artist-fisherman’s studio, fish have a second life on washi.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

Tim and Hannah’s ark

How a young couple beat the flood of modern chaos and built a tiny salvation.

Kathryn Borel Jr.

Freedom and Salty Air

Lessons learned from a zero-waste camping road trip with a baby.

Anouck Serra-Godard

Inner Landscapes

Architect Pierre Thibault makes nature his laboratory, and beauty his philosophy.

Sarah Champagne

Renovating a Century-Old Home in Québec

Against a tide of cookie-cutter neighbourhoods and instant polyurethane dwellings, the Rhéaume Gonzalez family immersed themselves in the joys and challenges of restoring a heritage home.

Juliette Leblanc

This Designer Is Preserving the Old Ways of Making Furniture

Over three decades of producing ethically made furniture by hand, Heidi Earnshaw has remained committed to the abiding lessons of traditional craftsmanship.

How to Fish Responsibly

The best fishing stories are all about the big catch. But if we want fish to continue to thrive, we need to take care of them and their environment by adopting ethical fishing practices.

Guillaume Rivest

Ben Swims Oceans

A modern-day explorer travels to the frontiers of human endurance to raise awareness about plastics in our oceans.

More Beautiful with Age

In a garage that serves as his workshop, leather worker Patrice Didier — founder of The Robinson Company — celebrates the marks of time on objects designed to last for generations.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

The Music of Spaces

A walk with architect Brian MacKay-Lyons in Shobac, Nova Scotia: a place where history and modernity exist in harmony.

Catherine Bernier

NEW ISSUE nº17

EPHEMERAL

In this issue, we explore the art of the moment, death, nature, and relationships that wither or transform. We question these notions through stories in which the impermanence of everything around us becomes a source of reflection on how we live, create, and engage in a constantly changing world.

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