Archive for Gardening

A Cross Blog Conversation about Spring Gardening

Last year I didn’t do much in the garden. We were still spending the majority of our time at my parent’s home, helping my father to deal with the recent loss of my mother. After a year of grieving, I’m happy to be back at our home and putting our energy back into our little

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Backyard Garden Could Turn you Into An Eco-Farmer

There’s a new wave of farming out there called SPIN–small plot intensive farming–and according to major newspapers it is growing in cities across North America. New urbanism has generated a lot of attention around the notions of “buying local” and working locally in order to cut harmful emissions caused by transportation vehicles.  Was it then

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The Community Garden Concept

Our neighborhood has homes situated on lots that are perfectly suitable for decent gardens.  That’s why I was surprised at the popularity of the community garden. I actually can’t confidently say I knew there was one. But yesterday my son spent his second visit there with a dear friend of our family who kindly invited

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Keeping it Together with the Signs of Spring

To all my northern friends: Are you going a little stir crazy from all the snow that’s getting dumped on us this year? Sure when I was 10 I would have had a ball with the amount of snow we’ve had already. But my patience is wearing thin and I’ve done all the forced winter

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Counter Global Warming with our Trees

I just read an article in the Toronto Star that shared an interesting fact about our trees. “…two 32 foot trees will produce enough oxygen to supply a person’s needs for a year” (Shelly Sanders Greer, Toronto Star, September 22). The article goes on to note that trees and shrubs, if they are planted in

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