Stories built for people
Not algorithms
An independent local media project that honours your time, and explores ideas that matter with the depth they deserve. Serving Orillia, Oro-Medonte, Severn, and Ramara.
DiscoverWhy Choose Us
The Villager is for people who are tired of being optimized, tracked, and fed content designed to keep them scrolling. We make media the old way: slow, deliberate, built to last. Print you can hold. Podcasts you can sit with. Stories that couldn’t exist anywhere else.
Our work is personal, honest, and deliberate. We write about culture, creativity, and what it means to live well in a world that constantly asks us to produce, perform, and consume. We push back against the churn.
If you’ve been searching for something that feels different, you just found it.
The Villager Magazine
The Villager Magazine is a print publication that explores the art of living thoughtfully in our local community.
Each issue features:
- Long-form essays and investigations
- Conversations with local creators, thinkers, and cultural makers
- Visual storytelling through photography and design
- Perspectives that challenge conventional narratives
We publish stories that couldn’t exist anywhere else. Stories shaped by real experience, curiosity, and craft. No clickbait. No fluff. Just writing that honours the complexity of being human.
Our editorial philosophy is simple: less, but better. We only ask for your attention when we have something worth saying.
Behind The Village Podcast
The Villager Podcast takes you deeper into the conversations that shape our culture.
Each episode is an intimate, unrushed exploration with artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who are building worlds that matter. We talk about:
- Creative practice and the courage it requires
- Building community in a disconnected age
- Resisting algorithmic thinking
- What it means to live with intention
This isn’t interview-as-content. It’s interview-as-art. We create space for nuance, vulnerability, and the kind of insights that only emerge when you give people room to think out loud.