What’s on Your Windowsill? (Plus Giveaway)
A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine! 
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A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine! Grow Great Grub Toronto Book Launch Party
Last Wed, Feb 24 I hosted the official Toronto Grow Great Grub book launch party. Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to help me celebrate the launch of my new book, 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 More Seeds and Such That Will Need to Be Stuck into Some Soil, Somewhere
Last week I traveled to Montreal to speak at the Montreal Seed Fair and sign copies of the "Grow Great Grub" book in support of the collective food gardening group, Action Communiterre.
Toronto's Field Trip to Richters Herbs
Last Friday, a friend with a car (THANK YOU JOHN, I hearby bequeath my first born to you. The cat is also an option.) drove Davin, myself, and another friend on a field trip to READ MORE...Grow Great Grub Book Giveaway Winners
Winners of my new book Grow Great Grub have been selected using a random # generator and they are:
Gina, who is inspired by "...The heirloom tomatoes at the San Francisco farmers market: 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 Storefront Gardens
My pal Barry and I started a new, collaborative internet website (aka "blog" if you must) called Storefront Gardens, documenting the various shop window gardens we pass by in our day-to-day lives and travels.
Recently, while Extending the Harvest
This piece was originally published in The Globe & Mail over the weekend as a part of my series on kitchen gardening.
Regarding using burlap and burlap sacks: Just to be clear, do keep them 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
Assorted and Sundry for 09/08/17
The Vine-Ripened Lie - What do you think? Vine-ripened versus off the vine. Fight!
Wet-year Tomato Troubles - We're all starting to get anxious about this year's tomato crop.
Handmade Berry Colander - Love these pottery colanders for straining berries by Jeanette Zeis.
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Assorted and Sundry for 09/07/30
Urban Farming Around the World - An inspiring pictorial.
A Hairless Beast is Roaming My Neighbourhood - Hint: It's not the Chupacabra. We haven't seen it yet, but it's become our favourite threat.
Ultimate Veggie Peeler - I made cucumber soup this week
Your Questions Answered: Watermelon Radish
Question: I am in South Mississippi and my Mother wants to know where you get the pink watermelon radish seed and how she can get some? - Betty
Hi Betty,
Watermelon radish are a fairly unknown winter radish that Your Questions Answered: Tomato Thieves
Question: We always love your articles and website. Keep it up!!
In this past weekend article on tomatoes, you didn’t answer the burning question…what did your brother do about the squirrels??????? They have already chomped the small tomatoes that were forming on our one plant and I know
Baby Spiders!
It's like the wild animal kingdom around here lately. We discovered dozens of these newly hatched garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) crawling all over the sides of the compost bin at the community garden the other day. Lost Email
For some inexplicable reason I have lost a BIG chunk of unanswered email. If you sent me an email between last Wed and today and have not heard back please get in touch again. Chances are your email disappeared!
Assorted and Sundry for 09/04/29
The HomeGrown "In Food We Trust" Photo Essay Contest - You can win tickets to Bonnaroo this June by showing the judges (of which I am one. Bwahahaha... Not sure why that is menacing, actually.) in 6 photos or fewer, How are you eating differently these
Up and Coming Events
Spring is (supposedly) here in Toronto, which means it's time to start talking about gardening! As a result, I've got a bunch of confirmed events on the roster in Toronto over the next few weeks.
Seed-Starting Porn Stars, Hustlers, Strippers, and Pimps Seed Collection
You decide which is which.
'Sugar Lump' Tomato
'Stallion' Bush Bean - Would have been better if this had been a pole bean. Just saying.
'Snow White Cherry' Tomato
'Turks Nuts' Tomato - Described as purple/brown and ribbed.
'Cherry Pink O's' Tomato
'Uncle Willie's' Bush Bean
'Furry Yellow
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.
