Well, you certainly wouldn't know it by a drop in temperatures - with expected humidex highs this weekend of around 40 degrees Celsius! And you wouldn't know it by the fall colours. It seems even some communities north of the city are experiencing a slight delay in the annual change. It seems maybe we can only know that fall has arrived by the dull reality of the calendar. But wait - there's one more clue!....

Pumpkin Fudge from Nudge Fudge of Stratford Ontario is back!

Now it could be the fact that we wrote that message on our doorway chalkboards but we're convinced that some customers have an innate "spidey-sense" for the stuff and come in by a weird kind of remote control, which they started to do last weekend. Those folks are sure to put a big dent in our supply between now and the end of P-Fudge season but if you haven't tried it and would like to know what the fuss is about - and possibly surrender yourself to a lifetime compulsion around this time of year - come into the store this weekend when we'll be sampling until the samples are gone!

Did you know that goats are the most commonly raised livestock in the world? Of course, more and more of us here in cow-country are familiar with goat cheese, goat milk, goat butter and other goat-y delights but today we wanted to introduce you to Debbie and Shain of Haute Goat Farms, near Port Hope - just east of Toronto.

In fact, if you want to introduce yourself to Debbie and Shain and - more importantly - their completely adorable Nigerian Dwarf goats you can do so in person and experience all the wonders of the farm. You'll find more info here to make an appointment. But for now we'll just let you know about some of their products we're featuring at the Mercantile (reminder, no live animals allowed in store :->) ):

We've featured the luxurious Goat Milk Caramel Popcorn before - in both regular and cayenne spice versions - and we've got them back in stock. But we're also carrying a small selection of hand-crafted soaps, creams and other cosmetic products we think you're going to love. And with goats that cute, what's not to love?