It’s a gorgeous sunny May day, and I’m busy building my “hugelkultur” raised garden bed at the edge of the conifer forest which covers some of our one and a quarter acres of Canadian Shield land. A hugelkultur bed is a raised ga…

Here’s something that looks like a real treat for Canadian gardeners. From the University of Saskatchewan.’Od’s Blog: Catholic and Clear Grit comments on the passing parade.

Gardening season is almost here, and I’m over the moon about it!

So I thought it would be fun to show you what’s happening in my garden right now!

I think I’ve made mention on more than one…

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I know a little (but not a lot) about dandelions. However, I was confused the other day when it was raining and I came upon this dandelion taking the weather like a champ.What I thought I knew about dandelions was they would be all fluffy and feathery…

April 22 is no ordinary day. First of all, it is my sisters birthday, and for anyone who knows her, they would agree with me that her birthday falling on Earth day is a perfect match. She is 21 and her love for the gardening and nature is unlike any I …

I worked hard on this and am proud of it.  Somehow the idea to put my philosophy into a spoken word open struck me and I worked on it solidly until it was done (with a few breaks for food,…

Want free tickets to the Ottawa Home & Garden show? I have three pairs of tickets to give away. First come, first served.

(This is a guest post by Evelyn Allemanni … writer, photographer, landscape judge, and passionate gardener. Visit her garden at www.allea.com/gardening-ea.htm.)
Much has been said about the benefits that quality landscaping offers – not just to homeowners, but to entire communities. Cleaner air, satisfied and healthier residents, and increased property values, for instance, are just [...]

The About Face Collective briefly dubs themselves as “a group of artists and environmentalists making beauty necessary and necessity beautiful”. The statement seriously under-emphasizes the great work they are doing in real spacing in Toronto. Their current primary project is

Most of the vegetable varieties available a century ago have disappeared.Via 2020Studios

Well we are officially in the doldrums of a dreary, grey winter.

And I find myself hopelessly dreaming of summer days in my garden…

…but with at least 4 more months until these days are a reality, 

I had to find a way not to wish away th…

I was so focused on my sad, blighty tomatoes I forgot to mention the success of my parsley.An over-abundance actually.
I had so much I didn’t know what to do with it. I couldn’t re-plant it on the balcony because it’s full of chive, mint, and tomato p…

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Here’s a green job for someone who loves trees and the great outdoors: a professional acorn picker.

Job satisfaction is excellent: the man who has this job in the UK has been personally responsible for planting 10 million oak trees. …

I’ve been reading a little bit recently about green walls, and vertical farming. I even happened across the tale of people who are turning shipping containers into a mobile hydroponics micro-farm (they are growing lettuce and baby carrots, etc., but I suspect that the idea of a hydroponics garden hidden inside a shipping container might [...]

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Grapes may be one of nature’s most versatile fruits: You can eat the seeds, you can turn them into jelly or juice, you can eat them fresh or preserved — and then, of course, there’s wine.

Growing them at home…

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

We also have Steve Jobs’ use of des…

The weather has been somewhat precarious lately and truth be told it has made me somewhat reluctant to tend to my garden.

But the rain and wind let up for a couple hours and I took a look. Unfortunate, really.

The whole thing is ravaged.

Dead,…

we pulled up the garden in shirtsleeves this weekend, somewhere in the middle of multiple pumpkin pies. it was warm, crazy warm for Thanksgiving. after two days of hail, and winter jacket weather, it felt like Wonderland. i ate the last peas of summer, warm green time-travellers hidden in withered, weathered shells. a few last tomatoes [...]

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There’s not much that can compare with plucking off a juicy peach from your own fruit tree. From spring’s sweet cherries to fall’s crisp apples, fresh fruit is one of nature’s most delicious products — plus it’s super-…