• Article About Tomatoes There are some very interesting facts about tomatoes. No one can say for certain, but the ancestor of all modern tomato varieties appears to have been a scrambling...
• Article Supporting Local Food Banks at the The Kiwi Cove Community Garden The Kiwi Cove Community Garden has been growing food exclusively for the Ladysmith Food Bank since 2008, on a garden plot approximately 140’ x 34’ donated by the...
• Article What the Heck is N-P-K ? Most fertilizers (and many soil amendments) show this formula somewhere prominently on the package: N-P-K. This shows the ratio of the three most important plant nutrients, Nitrogen, Phosphorus,...
• Article Campbell River and North Island Transition Society CAMPBELL RIVER AND NORTH ISLAND TRANSITION SOCIETY (CRNITS) is a registered non-profit organization which has a mandate to end family violence and violence against women and children.  CRNITS...
• Article Seeds of love... a Haiti long term project Shelters International Disaster Response has been working in Haiti since 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Ike and Hannah. From cleaning wells to rebuilding post-quake, we’ve been there...
• Article Rooting Children, Sprouting Community, Growing Food and a Healthy Environment with Our School Garden on Local Snuneymuxw Territory Welcome, 'Uy' skweyul, Bienvenu to syuw̓én̓ct Elementary in Nanaimo, BC where students, staff, parents, and the community are stewards of the land. One late August morning, a parent volunteer was...
• Article A Return to the Urban Garden Over the past few years, edible gardening has seen a surge in popularity. Spurred by the garden to table movement, the slow living movement and surely aided by...
• Article Grow This, Buy That We've all had sticker shock at the grocery store in the past couple of years with the meteoric rise of food prices. And if you're trying to make...
• Article Wood Lice The Lower Mainland of BC tends to enjoy very damp spring and early summer weather. This dampness creates the ideal habitat for Woodlice – often called sow bugs...
• Article McMaster University Library Sustainability Committee The Libraries Sustainability Committee formed after the teaching & learning Librarian Nicole Doro chatted with her supervisor about ways to explore sustainability within McMaster Libraries. Around the same...
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• Article Green & Gold Community Garden At the Green & Gold Community Garden, in Edmonton, volunteers get their hands dirty on two acres of land at the University of Alberta South Campus farm. Now...
• Article How to Grow Turnips Summer turnips are great for salads, pickles, and stir-fries. The mild, crunchy roots are a refreshing addition to salads, as are the edible leaves. Turnips are easy to grow...
• Article How to Grow Lemongrass Lemongrass is a tropical grass that thrives in summer heat. It is well suited to container growing, and ideal for greenhouse cultivation. It can be grown as a...
• Article Farm to School BC - Building Community Resiliency through Growing and Sowing Food Farm to School BC is a healthy eating program for K-12 students that brings healthy, local, and sustainable food into schools across British Columbia and provides students with...
• Article How to Protect Seedlings Organic gardeners share one challenge that has many faces – how to protect seedlings along to the point when they are strong enough to defend themselves. Because seedlings...
• Article About Cabbage Known since ancient Greece and Rome, the modern cabbage is a descendant of wild mustard. The Roman statesman Cato the Elder wrote of its medicinal properties, “It is...
• Article All creatures great and small eat seedlings Organic gardeners share one challenge that has many faces – how to nurse newly emerged seedlings along to the point when they are strong enough to defend themselves....
• Article Starting Tomatoes Indoors There’s nothing quite as perfect as a ripe tomato – that distinctive fresh, green smell of a sun-warmed fruit that bursts in the mouth. It speaks of the summer’s...
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• Article About Cilantro Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) This annual herb is known officially as coriander just about everywhere outside of the Americas. We often think of the fresh leaves as cilantro, and...
• Article About Beets Beets, like many root vegetables are biennials, which, if not harvested, will bloom in the second year of growth. One of the interesting facts about beets is they...
• Article About Parsley Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) Both the curly leaf form (P. crispum) and the Italian flat-leaf form (P. crispum var. neapolitanum) of this useful herb are members of the carrot...
• Article Planting a Bumblebee Garden Why garden for Bumble Bees? Bumblebees are a keystone species. This means much of our ecological system hinges on the survival of bumblebees. Not just native plants rely...
• Article Sweet Pea Trial Not so much an official trial, as an effort to grow out each of our sweet peas for comparative study. We grew out fifteen varieties among the other...