Cottage Life

The go-to source for cottagers, the award-winning Cottage Life offers valuable advice as well as profiles, how-to articles, recipes, essays, issues pieces, and lifestyle stories that help readers look after their cottages, entertain guests and, of course, kick back and have fun.

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Editor’s Note: Here’s to the little things

Your Letters: What’s the story, morning glory?

Waterfront • Summer officially arrives in June! Get ready to celebrate the season (even the small joys of it) in a big way.

5 fast facts about Canada’s tiniest avian • Get to know Western Canada’s wee calliope hummingbird, and then turn the page to meet four of its little (feathered) friends.

How you can help update Ontario’s Breeding Bird Atlas

A shoreline project in Wabamun Lake, Alta.

Tall Pines Music & Arts festival is back!

Reporter: Berry cool, storm sighting & game’s on

Wedding crashers that came out from under the dock

Cookbooks based on board games

Croc jibbitz that are working flashlights

This cottage purchase was a sister act

Workshop • Because sometimes you should sweat the small stuff.

Need a little assistance with your next DIY job? Try online coaching

How to work with really tiny screws

5 tips for sawdust control

How to replace an on-off switch

5 tools to help you magnify details, explore hidden spaces, and scan behind walls • It’s hard to fix what you can’t see. Five tools to help you magnify small details, explore hidden spaces, and scan behind walls

Replace a squeaky bearing

Helpful tools: a gear-puller

Cottage Q&A: Gutters with a flat roof; cottage burial options; lead-free fishing tackle; what kind of spider is this?; owls and mouse poison

A healthy woodlot, no matter the size, can fight climate change and might even help your bank account • A healthy woodlot—no matter the size—can fight climate change and might even help your bank account

When prime waterfront property wasn’t an option, this clever couple built up so they could look out • When prime waterfront property wasn’t an option, this clever couple built up so they could look out

From trash to treasured: how one clever cottager upcycled his way to a perfect little escape • It’s ramshackle, upcycled, and made of barely anything new, but there’s nothing accidental about this cottager’s cabin

Insects and other tiny creatures you can't see play a huge role in the cottage-country ecosystem • Insects and other tiny creatures play a huge role in the cottage-country ecosystem. It’s high time that we notice their work

There are a million reasons to love the lake. Here, five of our writers tell us theirs • There are a million reasons to love the lake. Here, five of our writers tell us theirs

How to fix three commonly found tiny leaks before they become big trouble • Don’t panic! Here’s how to fix three commonly found tiny leaks before they become big, big trouble

5 recipes that are quick bites for the beach, dock, or deck • It doesn’t take much to wow the crowd at happy hour. These 5 recipes make versatile, delicious, and quick bites for the beach, dock, or deck

The male pumpkinseed sunfish builds the nest and tends to the babies • In early summer, it’s a male pumpkinseed sunfish’s time to shine, when he takes on nest-building and baby-tending duties

The only acceptable activity before your morning coffee