Julie Traves

When Tom Chudleigh and his wife, Carol, opened their orchards to the public in 1967, there was only one other pick-your-own farm in Ontario. A dozen visitors was a busy Sunday. Now, 100,000 people a year pay $6 for the pleasure of plucking apples, frolicking in bales of hay, and taking tractor-wagon rides at the farm near Milton, Ontario. Across the province, farmers’ markets, including do-it-yourself harvesting, bring in $116 million annually.

What can the face reveal and conceal about pain? Like lightning to the face. That’s how Professor Mojgan Hodaie (MSc ’94, PGME ’04) says her patients with trigeminal neuralgia describe their pain. Considered one of the most excruciating pain disorders, the condition involves the misfiring of powerful pain signals from the face to the brain. In one case, a patient was completely debilitated when a single snowflake landed on his cheek during a winter stroll.