Walt Wingfield, a Toronto stockbroker, decides to take up farming, and buys the old Fisher place in Persephone Township.
Episode 1 Following in the footsteps of Thoreau, stockbroker Walt Wingfield acquires 200 acres (0.81 km2) north of Toronto and sets out to farm "using some of the old ways."
Episode 7 Walt gets snagged by the police while "practicing" fishing, nearly comes to grief while fixing the barn roof with Freddy and Jimmy, and takes on Township Council over a condominium development proposal.
Episode 8 Walt's new geese turn out to be a problem, and his campaign to run for Township council hits a bump, but he does score a small victory in the fund-raising department.
Episode 10 Walt and his neighbours stage a devastating display of farming-at-its-messiest to discourage prospective clients of the condominium development across the road.
Episode 11 Once again in winter's grip, Walt looks after chores at Don's, risks life and limb trying to get his horses out of the barn, and acquires an "enforcer", Mrs. Pankhurst, the goat.
Episode 12 Freddy declares that Walt's newly acquired but ancient tractor needs a "tune-up" and takes it to pieces in his front yard.
Episode 13 Walt discovers the secret to working with his old draft horse, King, prints his own currency and persuades his neighbours to join him in a closed economy on The Seventh Line.
Episode 16 Freddy and Walt try to duplicate the recipe after it appears Spike the hound has eaten the casserole Maggie made for the institute.
Episode 18 When Walt takes his museum proposal to Township council he gets an enthusiastic response - until he tells them he wants to house it in the Hollyhock Mill.
Episode 19 Walt is pressured into helping Willy and Dave out of a jam over a cattle pyramid scheme and attempts to haul the haunted millstone out of the stream at Hollyhock - with near fatal results.
Episode 23 Funeral arrangements for Walt's goat, Mrs. Pankhurst, are complicated by an unwanted police escort, a severe ice storm and widespread power outages.
Episode 24 Ice still blankets Persephone Township but the locals are planning pot luck at the community hall and Walt notices tensions among his neighbours are easing.
Episode 25 Maggie Wingfield gives birth in the middle of the ice storm without a doctor present; The Squire's brother, Lucky Gus, comes home.
Episode 26 Baby Hope is taking her first steps and Walt and Maggie fear they may have to get rid of Spike the hound; fire strikes the community hall in Larkspur.
Episode 27 Livestock woes plague Walt as he inadvertently hobbles his prize filly Dividend and tries to outwit a skunk that is stealing eggs from the barn.
Walt Wingfield - The newest resident of the seventh line and a former chairman of the board of a large Bay Street brokerage house.
He inherited his farm when his older brother Augustus (aka "Lucky Gus") ran away with a Catholic woman after World War II in violation of their parent's Protestant beliefs.
Dixon buys 50 acres (200,000 m2) on the opposite side of the Seventh Line from Walt with plans to build condominiums on the site.