Snack Foods for the Apocalypse
This is how I see canning: making snack foods for the apocalypse. Because in truth, with the exception of the plain tomato jars and sauces, many of the items I put up tend to be condiments, pickles,
This is how I see canning: making snack foods for the apocalypse. Because in truth, with the exception of the plain tomato jars and sauces, many of the items I put up tend to be condiments, pickles,
And make our own edible version of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party!
There has been a long and harried internal debate raging in my brain for days over that title. I have avoided making this post, worried
Let us turn our minds back four months (almost to the day by coincidence) to April of this year. Way back then, in a season that felt not so much unlike this one in many ways, what
Behold, the first of the non-cherry, indeterminate tomatoes that has reached maturity for 2009. And it's a beauty. Incidentally, I've managed to grow several ruffled tomato varieties this year purely by happenstance. Well, that and
Every year I go a little nuts growing large crops of onions such as 'Egyptian Walking' over at my community garden plot.
Onions grow easily in the ground, but they tend to take up a
These gooseberries aren't from my garden, although judging by the chewed up state of its leaves I'd hazard a guess that they have suffered a similar plight.
A week or two back, what was supposed to be
The following article was printed over the weekend as a part of my food gardening series in The Globe & Mail. Summer has been a late arrival around these parts -- heavy rains and thunderstorms have
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I'm long overdue to present a mini roof garden tour this year, let alone a garden tour of any kind. As always I'm behind, which inevitably leads to thoughts that things
The rooftop garden is finally set up for outdoor living and the heat has suddenly cranked up, which means it's summer drink time. I've taken to making up bright red batches of roselle, aka sorrel (not Botanical Photography by Gayla Trail
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