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Have a Wild(er) Time in Your Garden
Want to make your garden more wildlife-friendly? Perhaps you’ve already stopped using pesticides and put out a water source, and are wondering what else you can do. Brenda Beckwith will be speaking at this year’s Seedy Saturday about how to encourage wildlife in your garden through design. She’ll be looking at three wildlife-rich habitats: the […]
Get Squashed at Seedy Saturday
Tina Baynes, of Corner Farm, will be giving a one-hour talk on winter squash – a nutritional powerhouse that’s particularly valuable because it can be stored for use during the winter months. Come hear her, and you’ll leave knowing how to grow winter squash, cook winter squash, preserve winter squash…. and how to save seed […]
Eat Your Vegetables
That would be the vegetables you grow. But first, of course, you have to get them onto your plate. That’s where Carolyn Herriot comes in. She’s followed her popular book, The Zero-Mile Diet, with a new project: The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook. It’s full of recipes for turning the crops we grow in coastal home gardens […]
Oranges and Lemons
Say the bells of….. Saanich? That doesn’t have quite the right ring, but the point is that Bob and Verna Duncan have figured out how to harvest more than thirty varieties of citrus in the coastal BC climate. If you’ve had a chance to visit their garden, you’ll know they use a fascinating mix of […]
Making Room for Mushrooms
How much room does a mushroom need? Not much (room) at all, according to Scott Henderson, aka “The Mushroom Man”. Mushrooms are the perfect crop to fit into a corner of your home or balcony, to grow in otherwise unused parts of your garden, or on recycled materials: you can grow winecaps between garden rows, […]
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