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Scotts Versus TerraCycle, Take Two

I received the following update on the Scotts Miracle-Gro versus TerraCycle lawsuit from Scotts over a week ago but was a little freaked that the Scotts PR team would be so eager to get the facts of the settlement out into the world as soon as

Edible Toronto Magazine

Edible Toronto Magazine There's a new magazine in town, and I mean that quite literally. Edible Toronto is the Toronto edition of a group of locally-relevant edible cities world-wide. There's an edible Brooklyn, an edible Seattle, and there's even

Aphids Suck

tee_aphidssuck.jpg Declare war on the aphid nation in this battle-ready tee, now available in pink or black. We're taking pre-orders for a limited time which allows us to make the design available in a new colour (for those of you, like me,

Growing a Nepenthes Terrarium

nepenthes_terrarium1.jpg Look what my spouse brought home for me yesterday as a gift for being sick. If this is what I get for being sick what do I get for being a fully-functioning, productive member of society? Actually being sick was a nice

City Farming — New York Mag Article

In a recent New York Magazine feature entitled "My Empire of Dirt", writer Manny Howard takes on the arduous task of growing a farm, complete with flora and fauna in his Brooklyn backyard to explore just what is involved in trying to feed himself locally for one

Making Low-Sugar Pepper Jelly

pepperjelly.jpg With both the gardens and the Farmer's Market in abundance these days, it's become canning central around here. I'm on a personal mission to find a use for just about everything. Last weekend was the whole 50 pounds of tomatoes insanity

Love to Hate: Cosmos

cosmos_polaroid_sm.jpg Let's all agree right now to stop pretending to hate cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) and (Cosmos sulphureus). Let's agree to stop telling ourselves we are too good for it. Or that it's too easy. Let's agree to admit right here, right now

City Razes Garden

I walked outside the other day, into the street garden with scissors in hand to clip some flowers intended for the host of a party I was attending. As I bent over to snip a few Black-eyed Susan stems I discovered that the flowers were completely gone.

From Out of a Crack… Behold, a Tomato

tomatoes_crack_wool_sm.jpg Whomever says tomatoes can not and should not be grown in pots has not witnessed some of the surprising discoveries I have made over the years. While out biking yesterday afternoon, I happened upon this fully mature, volunteer cherry tomato growing up from

Easily Amused

tomato_purplecalabash.jpg The bottoms of all of the 'Purple Calabash' tomatoes are so bumpy and mishapen that they are morphing into cartoonish grumpy old man faces as they ripen and mature. Today a friend remarked that we are so programmed to accept perfectly smooth-shaped produce
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