The Requirement to Garden
This is a long one. I suggest you make a cup of tea and a snack before starting.
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your 
Category: Deep Thoughts
This is a long one. I suggest you make a cup of tea and a snack before starting.
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your First Sighting in the Wild & Ten Years!
It's a big week over here as my new book, "Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces" (I'm already an expert at saying the title super fast) hits bookstores TODAY!
Except that we spotted Taking a New Look at Carnivorous Plants
I just read a fascinating piece via the Telegraph UK that is absolutely blowing my mind.
Researchers at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew have conducted a study looking into plant behavior, specifically carnivorous plants, and are concluding Seven Things (Plus some extra fun things at the end)
I've been tagged for a meme. I don't typically do memes and i know this makes me a terrible meme not doer, but I swear my reasons aren't bitchy, just awkward.
For example, this current meme requires that I list seven random things about myself. Dear god, the
In Search of My Grandmother’s Garden
I am doing something big this winter, something I have wanted to do for a very long time. It has sat inside me for years and years as a wish that I never quite believed would happen. Even now, with some of the plane Gardening Lessons My Grandmother Taught Me (Unintentionally)
I wrote this piece back in February for The Guardian UK, and am now posting it here in its entirety as promised. You can read my preface to it here.
My gardener’s story is atypical. There were no childhood summers frolicking in the garden of a rosy-cheeked matriarch eager to pass on a passion for growing things; however, there was, in fact, a grandmother—a woman who for better or worse certainly left an impression. A woman who taught me about gardening without meaning to, possibly even in spite of herself. Untitled (A Darker Side to Gardening)
Over the weekend, I decided to read Jamaica Kincaid's "The Autobiography of My Mother" for the second time. Opening the first page, I notice a note scrawled into the top right hand corner in my own handwriting, "pg 143."
Turning to page 143 I find
Personal Histories
Phew, that was fast. I put the finishing touches on an article late last night and it is already up on the Guardian website. This one, about the relationship between myself and my maternal grandmother is a bit more personal than usual and I am still
There’s Joy in Hard Work
I listened to this essay about the importance of physical labor by urban gardener Mary Seton Corboy yesterday morning on the This I Believe program and thought it was so brilliant I had to share. A Conversation: Gardening versus Porn
I am standing in front of a community garden taking photos when a youngish dude (I am not good at guesstimating age) holding a guitar and a large, open bottle of vodka approaches me.
Him: What are you doing?
Me: I'm taking pictures of these beans Things I Learned While Camping
Homesteading -- the kind that involved living in tents and no machinery -- was terribly difficult. I'm sure of it. Of course I already knew this, camping merely drove that point home in a new way. Simple tasks Taste T.O. Interview
“What that kind of attitude and approach is saying over and over again is that gardening is not for you; you don’t belong here.”
I met up with Teresa Cheng a few weeks ago for lunch at my favourite long-time local eatery, Cafe Bernate for an in-person interview
Ascent Magazine - June 2008
I was recently profiled in Ascent Magazine's sustainability issue. This article is the result of one of the best interviews/conversations I have ever had the pleasure of taking part in. I kind of wish we could read the interview although I'd imagine Thank You
Sakura's White Bleeding Heart in the street garden
I wanted to write and thank you all for your very kind words and wishes about yesterday's post. I've been overwhelmed. Thank you.
I have to admit I have The One Where I Got My Heart Broken, Again
The street garden has been significantly damaged again, this time by a painter my landlord hired to paint a so-called mural on the wall. He had to have the mural done to save the garden from "graffiti peoples", he told me in a letter left in my
The Earth-Loving, Tree-Hugging Hippies Inside Us
This whole Earth Day thing has me a bit puzzled. Come to think of it most [Insert Cause Here] Days are oddly perplexing. Maybe it's just human nature to take things for granted, but I've never been able to wrap my head around the fact that
Meat Lover’s Seed Collection
Sounds like meat, as opposed to accompanying meat.
'Bacon' Bush Bean - I am guessing it doesn't actually taste like bacon although meat lovers everywhere would like for someone to get on that, stat!
'Caseknife' Bush Bean
'Bloody Butcher' Tomato - Don't hurt me!
'Jack Rabbit Kidney'
The Slasher Movies and Adult Film Title Seed Collection
For the gardener with an unsophisticated sense of humor. Myself included. Tomato's tend to dominate this theme.
'Cannibal' Tomato
'Bloody Butcher' Tomato
'Beaver Lodge Slicer' Tomato
'Black Seaman' Tomato - No matter how I say it "seaman" always gets
In the Beginning, a Seed
This is the first package of seeds I have purchased for the 2008 growing season. Of course I have acquired other seeds via trades but this was the first I bought. It has a decidedly Canadian sounding name, no? The You Grow Girl™ Eighth Birthday and First Annual Celebratory Haiku Contest
Can you believe You Grow Girl is eight years old? Neither can I. Sometimes it feels like all of this has passed in a blink of an eye. Eight years is a small child in grade three. When I look at it that way
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