Arisa Valyear, Author at Cottage Life

a quonset home in the winter

Quonsets are the new mighty-strong, energy-efficient, last-you-a-lifetime rural residences

Real Estate

Historic cottage country drive-in movie theatre for sale

Real Estate

This family cottage in Prince Edward County maximizes nature’s bounty

a person pouring hops into a fermentation tank

This cottage-country brewery is all about community—just look at their name

General

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7 inexpensive kitchen products that’ll make your life easier at the cottage

General

a photo of a man holding a box of butter tarts and standing outside of a shed

Meet cottage country’s butter tart master

General

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How the federal government’s recent capital gains announcement will impact cottagers

Real Estate

the solar eclipse

6 things that happen during solar eclipses you probably didn’t know about

General

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Where the April solar eclipse will be most visible across cottage country—and how to prepare

Outdoors

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Hockey superstar Natalie Spooner on the PWHL, life at the cottage, and being an Olympian

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a phone scam

How cottagers can protect themselves against utility-related fraud

General

Gift guide: The best cottage board games to gift this winter

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Gift guide: The best cottage blankets to gift this season

an asian lady beetle crawls on a leaf

How to manage an Asian lady beetle infestation

Outdoors

two hikers walking on a trail, one with bear spray in a holster

Everything you need to know about bear spray

Outdoors