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Town & Country Landscaping sponsors Tree of Life

Crazy 8 Barn and Garden     Our sponsor, Susanne Spence, Town & Country Landscaping, is restoring her octogonal barn at Palmyra, ON.  She is still sorting out zoning details, but keep your eyes open on the Talbot Trail, No. 3 Highway.  That beautiful barn is going to need a barn quilt, we think!

Here’s the barn quilt that her company, Town & Country Landscaping, sponsored in Wardsville.

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Bob Landsborough, Ken Willis, Ross Snider, Tom McCallum install the Tree of Life at the corner of Haggerty and Longwoods Road.

Tree of Life

The tree of life is the Irish symbol of Family. George Ward and his wife left their ancestral family in Ireland to come to the New World.  They were determined to build their own family and heritage in these lands. Many Irish people travelled to resettle in the Canadian wilderness in hopes of a better life. The English and Scots settled this part of Ontario as well. Many Europeans saw Canada as a land of opportunity and potential for prosperity. They left their native lands in order to have a chance at a better life.

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