flowers – The Trials and Tribulations of an Urban Farmer

Club Barbados, Resort and Spa and Hunte's Garden

16 Feb 202016 Feb 2020

Last week I wrote about our first trip to Barbados in 2001. After many years away from the beautiful sun and sand, we finally made a return trip to the…

Why Pesticide Free Gardens Matter: Honeybees and Me

26 Jan 202026 Jan 2020

I was attending a conference at the Seneca College campus during a quiet study week this past October. Over lunch attendees were given the opportunity to take a tour of…

A Canadian Winter Garden

12 Jan 202013 Jan 2020

I spent an hour gardening outside on January 3 in Canada. This is not west coast, temperate Canada, but middle-of-the-country should be really cold and snowy winter Canada. We had…

A Garden Trip to Nova Scotia

5 Jan 202012 Jan 2020

I asked my son Gavin if there was some place he would like to go on a family trip. He immediately responded “Scotland!” Although he was in his early twenties,…

Top 10 Garden Resolutions

29 Dec 201929 Dec 2019

While I generally avoid unrealistic goals like weight loss and fortune finding, I do like to make positive plans for times ahead. As I look back at what was great…

A Trip to the Emerald Isle

22 Dec 201922 Dec 2019

The first time I crossed the border I was 23 and we were on our honeymoon. We had time in between hotels and my new husband thought it would be…

The Top Six Reasons for Community Gardens

1 Dec 201922 Dec 2019

I was inspired to reconsider the uses of my own little plot of earth five years ago when I first visited the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Located a…

Planting Good Seeds for Change

24 Nov 20191 Dec 2019

My husband says I could never let a plant die. I do have fern that I received before I married him. His mother gave it to me to see how…

Zero Budget Gardening Tips

17 Nov 201922 Dec 2019

Money has been one of my biggest gardening challenges over the years. I married just two months after graduating from university and soon after that, we were expecting our first…

How to Grow the Biggest Sunflower

10 Nov 201922 Nov 2019

I have always loved sunflowers. When I was growing up, I would only see them on vacation in Southern Ontario. The growing season where I lived was not usually long…