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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Oct 22, 2021
- 6 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Oct 1, 2021
- 10 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Sep 17, 2021
- 12 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Sep 3, 2021
- 8 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Aug 27, 2021
- 8 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Aug 20, 2021
- 10 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Aug 13, 2021
- 10 min
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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Upfront & Beautiful
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jul 15, 2021
- 7 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jul 9, 2021
- 5 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jul 2, 2021
- 5 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jun 24, 2021
- 7 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jun 18, 2021
- 8 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jun 11, 2021
- 13 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jun 4, 2021
- 9 min
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...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
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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Upfront and Beautiful
- May 28, 2021
- 9 min
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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