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Eat Your Vegetables
That would be the vegetables you grow. But first, of course, you have to get them onto your plate. That’s where Carolyn Herriot comes in. She’s followed her popular book, The Zero-Mile Diet, with a new project: The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook. It’s full of recipes for turning the crops we grow in coastal home gardens […]
Oranges and Lemons
Say the bells of….. Saanich? That doesn’t have quite the right ring, but the point is that Bob and Verna Duncan have figured out how to harvest more than thirty varieties of citrus in the coastal BC climate. If you’ve had a chance to visit their garden, you’ll know they use a fascinating mix of […]
A Seed Saved is a Seed Earned
Well, why not? Now that we lack the penny, we’ll have to save something else, right? And if you grow your own food, saved seed can be worth a good deal more than a pile of pennies. There are lots of other good reasons to save seed, of course, including preserving genetic diversity, ensuring that […]
Making Room for Mushrooms
How much room does a mushroom need? Not much (room) at all, according to Scott Henderson, aka “The Mushroom Man”. Mushrooms are the perfect crop to fit into a corner of your home or balcony, to grow in otherwise unused parts of your garden, or on recycled materials: you can grow winecaps between garden rows, […]
Want a Growing Business?
Do you think it’s about time you put your plants to work? Sure, you may eat some of them, but what have they done for you lately? Isn’t it about time they started paying some of the bills? If you’ve been having thoughts like these in the middle of the night, then Seedy Saturday has […]
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