Garden Tip – The Trials and Tribulations of an Urban Farmer

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…

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…

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…

Keeping Squirrels out of the Hanging Baskets

20 Oct 201922 Nov 2019

Critters can invade any garden. Pollinators including bees are indispensable to growth. Spider mites, like those that devoured my friend Carsey’s newly planted balcony garden, are unwelcome. Furry creatures can…