Today I'm proudly guest posting over at MomPrepares! 'Gardening with Children - from Seeding to Harvest' Help turn your brown thumb into a green thumb with the Green Thumb Thursday Blog Hop! This blog hop is all about gardening, so if you have any tips, gardening wisdom, design ideas, seeding, growing advice, permaculture... etc … Continue Reading...
What if I told you could reduce weeding, create a little ecosystem with your vegetables and deter pests? That's what polyculture aims to do. Polyculture is a form of permaculture that shifts from our current monoculture way of growing our food. Visualize a full bed full of vegetables all over the place, masses of colour and different … Continue Reading...
Joining Soule Mama, a Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. … Continue Reading...
Join me at the Food Growing Summit 2014 - Planting Community Resilience! It’s food growing time. Are home-grown beans or squash, kale, tomatoes or your favorite vegetable calling you? It can be simple to get started growing some of your own and we’ll show you how. Sign up for this free series of conversations with Will Allen, … Continue Reading...
There is something so magical about gardens to a child’s eye. Like a mini jungle, little footsteps seek out the adventure and wonder amidst the towering plants. There are so many things to discover, dirt is ever so compelling and the touch and feel of different leaves amuse little hands. With a little extra enthusiasm, […]
February. Where do I begin. It’s by far the hardest month of the year to go through when you live up north. Sometimes you go days or weeks without sunshine and it snows on a daily basis. As we head towards March, I know we’ll keep getting more snow but also that spring equinox is […]
Joining Soule Mama, a Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Green Thumb Thursday! Help turn your brown thumb into a green thumb with the Green Thumb Thursday Blog Hop! This blog hop is all about gardening, so if you have any tips, gardening wisdom, design ideas, seeding, growing advice, permaculture… etc that you’ve written we’d love for you to share it with […]
What if I told you could reduce weeding, create a little ecosystem with your vegetables and deter pests? That’s what polyculture aims to do. Polyculture is a form of permaculture that shifts from our current monoculture way of growing our food. Visualize a full bed full of vegetables all over the place, masses of colour […]
I’ve grown the 3 sisters guild twice now, both times with different results. It can be challenging in a Northern climate to grow some of the heat loving plants as it’s common to get frosts in May and September. Corn and winter squash not only require long hot summers but they’re also heavy feeders which […]
I’m not knocking the American seeds to the south of us here, they’re great, fantastic even, I use High Mowing Seeds & Baker Creek Heirloom and I’m very interested in the Seed Savers Exchange. But Canadians do have a specific climate with a shorter growing season, which means that seeds saved from a place like California […]
This post is part of a series of heirlooms that I’m reviewing that we grew for the 2013 year. I’m becoming more and more fond of heirlooms as the gardening years go by. Sure hybrids have lots to offer for that peak yield performance or disease resistance, but what about taste? What about looks? Heirlooms […]
