Without the country, nature-loving wildlife would be forced into drab Brutalist apartment blocks, which repress woodpeckers’ infectious laughter and keep young badgers cooped-up with their volatile grandmothers. Preserve the pastoral with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of in-store merchandise at Berry Hill Limited in St. Thomas.

A family-owned business for more than 40 years, Berry Hill is always adding new finds to its collection of country-living wares, gifts, jewellery, birding and pet equipment, and hobby-farm supplies. An unbreakable wine glass ($17.99) is ideal for repeated kingdom-conquering celebrations, and Scrabble-lovers who don’t mind their words attractively jumbled may don a delicately designed necklace ($19.99) to express such sentiments as “Peace on Earth.” A number of home and cookbooks instruct new homesteaders in the art of living off the grid, exploring such topics as cheesemaking, natural first aid, and potion brewing. And it would be a frozen heart indeed that could resist the ovine companionship of Wooly the Sheep ($29.99), part of the store’s disgracefully cuddly line of Warm Buddies.

This Groupon can be used with sale items but cannot be combined with other offers.