Garden Crops – The Trials and Tribulations of an Urban Farmer

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When Life Gives You Tomatoes, Make Sauces

Considering the space in front of my townhouse is a former flower garden, this year’s harvest is bountiful! Produce includes tomatoes, herbs and lettuce. While I freeze many washed cherry…

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Wildflower Seed paper

11 Jul 202111 Jul 2021

Seed paper was something I had heard about but never tried. On Mother's Day, my oldest daughter gifted me with a carefully sourced wildflower seed card with a handwritten poem…

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Tomato Planting Time

21 Mar 202121 Mar 2021

Spring arrived today! While outside planting time is still weeks away, the longer days and sunshine have me in gardening mode already. It has been warm enough to start on…

Top Reasons for Community Gardens

7 Mar 202110 Mar 2021

My last pre-COVID trip was to beautiful British Columbia. After the trip I shared the following reflection on the benefits of gardening in community. I have added some recently discovered…

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Taking the Longview

29 Nov 202029 Nov 2020

The long view can keep gardeners going in uncertain times. If we focused only on instant gratification, we would replace our gardens with visits to the grocery store and pop…

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Challenging Thyme and Other Spices

15 Nov 202015 Nov 2020

I was recently reviewing my 2020 gardening resolutions. While some, like traveling to garden shows and gardening tours did not happen, I did manage to add some spice to life…

Snapdragons and Resilience

8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020

For me snapdragon flowers have become the flower for 2020. On an unexpected warm spring-like day in November in Canada, they continue to inspire. In the fall of 2019, I…

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Drawing Apples

1 Nov 20202 Nov 2020

I am back to the drawing board and loving it. After two weeks in self-isolation due to travel regulations, I really missed creating art. Though I usually paint with acrylics,…

Thanksgiving for Rain

4 Oct 20204 Oct 2020

A dry summer meant a lot of time watering the garden. The other day, as I was putting on my sandals to water again, I heard and saw the rain.…

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What Can I Make with Zucchini?

16 Aug 202023 Aug 2020

Dad spent the first decade of his life on a farm north of Toronto. When he reignited his passion for growing food in a large garden in the backyard of…