Danny Seo’s Simply Green Giving
Harper Collins touts him as "the eco-conscious, creative wonder kid," but just what makes Danny Seo an environmental stylist? First and foremost, Danny is actually a 
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Harper Collins touts him as "the eco-conscious, creative wonder kid," but just what makes Danny Seo an environmental stylist? First and foremost, Danny is actually a Foraging in the City
This article in today's Toronto Star is interesting. It's about people harvesting from neglected or owner-less trees in the city.
It made me think about an apple tree that is sitting off the side of the exit ramp I take every day on my way home from
Cold Frame Advice
This week the weather has definitely started taking a turn to Fall here in Vancouver. While we've got our moments of heat mid day, as soon as that sun gets behind a cloud I find myself reaching for my wool gardening sweater. Bye, bye summer. Sniff. Sniff.
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Cooking, Canning, and Putting Up Food
I've been busy canning and putting up food, so the updates here have been fewer than usual. Anyone notice? After all the labor and love I put into growing my babies, I refuse to let them go to waste. So besides taking baskets to friends, neighbors,
Blackberries
The blackberry bushes have been incredibly prolific at the Community Garden this year. I'd swear the plants have doubled in size, each vine exploding with fat, juicy fruit. I had thought that perhaps our cold winters curbed their invasiveness but I'm starting Pinto Progress
Back at the end of June I was pretty darned excited about the prospect of growing some hard beans in my back yard. I was excited about this for two reasons: first, new gardening experiment = fun; and second, the idea of being able to actually grow
Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2006
I stumbled across Hanna's Tomato Tastings over at This Garden is Illegal through a link off Renee's site today. Hanna planted 16 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year and is undertaking a process to document the fruits of each one. She's got notes on size,
Another Anemone Attempt
I adore Japanese Anemones and when I first started digging in the dirt at our new house last year they were high on my list of plants to get up and running. My grandma has a veritable explosion of them in her yard Entering the Fall Fair
Last year we visited the Uxbridge Fall Fair and I especially enjoyed looking at all the fruits and vegetables that were entered into the fair. I'm thinking of entering this year.
These are the categories I'm considering:
Pepper - hot, 3 on a plate...Scotch Bonnets
Pepper
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