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Colour Me Fall
Apparently, I’m not what you’d consider a fall person. I love the season. I love the rain and the mist, and the intensely fascinating...

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Oct 28, 20218 min read


Fight or Feed
I cannot take credit for the declaration, but I subscribe to it fully. Heather Morgan MS, NLC is credited with having said, “Every time...

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Oct 22, 20216 min read


From Barren to Bountiful
This weekend we celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving — already, believe it or not. Wasn’t it just July? I have been busy cleaning out garden...

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Oct 8, 20214 min read


The Economy of Resilience
As happens at this time of year, when the weather changes and the sodden garden needs more attention than usual, I am jolted awake at 3...

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Oct 1, 202110 min read


The Littlest Orchard
Almost one year ago today, Modern Farmer publisher and Million Gardens Movement co-founder Frank Giustra, visited our urban permaculture...

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Sep 17, 202112 min read


The Burden of Privilege
I had intended to write about back to school gardens and children’s gardens, and offer some inspiration for packing healthy homegrown...

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Sep 3, 20218 min read


Anatomy of a No-Dig Raised Bed
According to multiple sources, close to 20 million North Americans took up gardening in 2020, and a huge percentage of those who grew...

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Aug 27, 20218 min read


Sow Simple
Transitioning to the slow, easy pace of fall food gardening. After the hottest summer in recorded weather history, I for one welcome the...

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Aug 20, 202110 min read


A Drop in the Bucket of Change
The three Rs of my childhood: "reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic”, evolved eventually into the three Rs of my early adulthood: “reduce,...

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Aug 13, 202110 min read


Veggie Dog Dave
Life's a party — a garden party — for our little man @davetheyorkie. Dave is a character to say the least. Among other things he is a...

Upfront & Beautiful
Aug 6, 20214 min read


Small Steps
“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...

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Jul 23, 20215 min read


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

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Jul 15, 20217 min read


Beach Garden Picnic
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...

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Jul 9, 20215 min read


Mother Nature, She's Pissed
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...

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Jul 2, 20215 min read


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

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Jun 24, 20217 min read


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

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Jun 18, 20218 min read


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

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Jun 11, 202113 min read


Small-Hold Farmer Love
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...

Upfront and Beautiful
Jun 4, 20219 min read


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

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Jun 1, 20213 min read


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

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May 28, 20219 min read
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