I recently gave a compost workshop at the Evergreen’s City Hall community garden. In addition to walking through the compost basics, I recommended a procedure […] Read More
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Two summer composting workshops coming up. The first one is this Sunday at Evergreen’s community garden on the City Hall lawn. The garden is extending […] Read More
I attended a Vancouver Food Policy Council meeting this week. The topic was food scraps, so I was motivated to attend on a warm summer […] Read More
One of my neighbours and fellow Village Vancouver member is into bees. Mary Bennett is also into art and has found a way to marry […] Read More
I’m on a mission to install rodent resistant bins at every community garden in my neighbourhood. Last year, we built a wood and wire bin […] Read More
Penticton has only one community garden, but it’s a vibrant one. The garden was started 13 years ago atop Vancouver hill. The original site had […] Read More
As associate producer of the Vancouver Garden Show in 2005, I had a large palette: fifty acres of open green space at VanDusen Gardens with 10,000 […] Read More
Long before the Canadian Cancer Society got on board, many groups were working hard to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides in this country. Hudson, […] Read More
At the end of every wormshop, I used to take the school children on a tour of the compost garden. I’d already shown them how […] Read More
I am in the process of revamping the business side of my blog. So now under the Garden Heart tab above you will see a […] Read More