“Laura, can I (we) come to your house to play?” Our front yard garden has become a discovery playground of sorts for young neighbours and...

If you know me, you know that ritual figures prominently in my life, second only to family and good health. As a writer, photographer,...

Here on the Pacific Northwest coast, we practice zone denial pretty much all year long. We have no choice if we wish to play and picnic...

She's shaking her iron fist, warning us to start taking care of the planet and each other. I’d been searching through photos of an...

Mint and peas, mushy peas, steamed peas — timeless English style favourites that mark the culinary transition from spring to summer. Peas...

Since I began contributing to Million Gardens Movement last fall, my articles and videos have been largely instructional. I haven’t...

The delicious resurgence of life-giving, soul-nourishing, culinary mashups, plus an ode to a tomato man, and a chef who cooks from the...

Agritourism (a.k.a. agrotourism) should be receiving a shot in the arm this summer. With people back on the roads and in the air, and...

Thank you for supporting the good works of the Sentinel Garden Gurus. School food gardens are beautiful places to learn and to work, and...

April showers may bring May flowers, but they also warm and wake up a beautiful, slumbering, food garden ecosystem, including flowering,...

Those of you who follow the Million Gardens Movement, likely know that its co-founder and publisher of mothership Modern Farmer magazine,...

For seasoned and new gardeners alike, the concept of ‘hardening off’ can be shady, but don’t let uncertainty prevent you from digging in...

This ancient 'vegetable melon' (a fruit, botanically speaking) remains calm and cool even when things get heated in the food garden....

This humble root vegetable has noble roots and a colourful past, yet it remains the subject of many a dad joke. Urban legend has it that...

Sweet or spicy, scalding or icy, these crunchy, juicy, edible, smooth and shiny orbs all come from one big happy family called Capsicum...

Growing these most luscious and voluptuous of fruits (yes, fruits) from seeds or from seedlings is easier than you think. The mass...

When my children were tiny, I told them that sleep was delicious, and that spinach was super duper. They believed me, and in some small...

Botanically speaking, peas are fruits, which explains a few things. The pods are the fruits by definition, the peas inside the pods are...

Growing radishes on earth and in space, is easier than you think. The very first seeds I direct sow into my spring garden are root...

I couldn't wait, I admit it. Not one week, and certainly not four. Three weeks have passed now since I sowed the first hopeful seeds of...