Harrowsmith Country Life was a lifestyle magazine geared to countryside or rural living. Originally just called Harrowsmith, it was founded as a back-to-the-land and environmental magazine in the small (Pop. 256) village of Camden East (Ontario, Canada) in 1976 by James M. Lawrence. Within two years, the magazine had over 100,000 subscribers and eventually became Canada's 8th largest magazine and the country's leading magazine read outside of Canada.