• Article How to Grow Pac Choi and Choi Sum These cool-season vegetables are incredibly easy to grow and very tasty. The leaves can be used raw in salads, or the whole plant can be steamed or stir-fried....
• Article CHEP Good Food and the askîy project About Our ProjectCHEP’s goal is to tackle food security by addressing education, access, and food affordability. The askîy project is a CHEP initiative that focuses on educating Indigenous...
• Article Using Crop Protection to Ensure an Abundant Harvest Frost, insects, wind, and that ever-changing temperature.  How do I give my seedlings and plants the best support to ensure an abundant harvest?  Protecting crops is a large...
• Article Minced Chicken Salad with Fresh Herbs Laab Gai is a traditional Thai minced chicken salad with fresh herbs. Thai cooks depend on the tropical herb phak phai (aka Vietnamese coriander or Persicaria odorata), but...
• Article Pandora Park Community Garden Society The Pandora Park Community Garden Society was formed in early 2009 by a group of people from the Hastings Sunrise area of Vancouver. We’ve been meeting since February...
• Article Coriander Root Paste With the arrival of warm weather comes the barbecue season. Coriander Root Paste is a kind of all purpose barbecue rub or marinade that takes its flavours from...
• Article About Chinese Vegetables Inspired by Chinese cuisine? Your garden can be too! Many of the greens we associate with Asia are hardy and thrive in cool spring weather. These crops are...
• Article About Beans The bean is an annual plant of the family Fabaceae. This is a huge plant family, with over 19,000 species, so there are many interesting facts about beans....
• Article Carrot Coconut Macaroons Macaroons: 3/4 cup almond meal 1 cup shredded organic carrots (divided) a pinch of sea salt 2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground ginger 1/2 tsp cardamom 1/4 cup...
• Article Chilli Sweet Kale Ingredients: 2 organic red chilli peppers (diced) 1 onion (diced) 1 bunch of organic kale 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 organic yam 10 pistachios (crushed) 1. Roast...
• Article How to Grow Basil Basil is a very easy crop to grow from seed for summer harvests. Basil seeds germinate slowly, a bit faster when heated from below, and basil enjoys hot...
• Article Compost and Composting Composting: The Garden's Gift That Keeps on Giving Imagine a process that transforms your kitchen scraps and garden waste into a nutrient-rich, soil-enhancing marvel. Welcome to the world...
• Article Cauliflower Rice Recipe Ingredients • 1 clove garlic, minced • 1 Tbsp organic coconut oil • 1/2 head cauliflower • 1/2 cup chopped onions • 1 tsp salt and pepper How...
• 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 Commit to Grow Day 16: Grow Kale If you ever find yourself tempted to purchase kale from a supermarket, you really ought to try growing it. By its nature, kale is one of the easiest,...
• Article How to Grow Parsley No organic kitchen garden is complete without parsley. Both curly and flat-leaf parsley are loaded with flavour and productive over a long period in the garden. Parsley is...
• Article Market Garden Photos Do you run a market garden or a small organic farm? Are you growing any West Coast Seeds products? Send us some photos! Use your cell camera or...
• Article About Chives Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) Chives have been in cultivation since at least the Middle Ages in Europe, and there are references to their use in ancient Rome, but primarily...
• 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 Homegrown Super Foods All homegrown vegetables are nutritious. The fact that you can eat them fresh, just after they have been harvested, means that they will be at the peak of...
• Article About Basil Basil is a heat-loving annual plant grown for use as a culinary herb. Many varieties exist, with subtle differences in flavour, growth habit, leaf colour, and so on....
• 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 Using Cover Crops to Restore Land Critics who visit our farm to learn about our style of no-till often point out that our deep mulch system isn’t viable for most regions of the world....
• Article All About Garlic Garlic has been used as both food and medicine since at least the 25th century BCE, around the time that the pyramids were being constructed at Giza, Egypt....
• Article About Dandelions The much maligned dandelion actually has a lot to offer. It has been vilified in our culture as the invader of lawn spaces, thrusting its dazzling yellow colour...