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Those of you who follow the Million Gardens Movement, likely know that its co-founder and publisher of mothership Modern Farmer magazine,...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- May 14, 2021
- 7 min
Hardening Off Made Easy
For seasoned and new gardeners alike, the concept of ‘hardening off’ can be shady, but don’t let uncertainty prevent you from digging in...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Apr 30, 2021
- 10 min
Cool Cucumbers
This ancient 'vegetable melon' (a fruit, botanically speaking) remains calm and cool even when things get heated in the food garden....
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Apr 23, 2021
- 11 min
Mighty Carrots
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...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Apr 15, 2021
- 16 min
Peppers: A Hot Topic
Sweet or spicy, scalding or icy, these crunchy, juicy, edible, smooth and shiny orbs all come from one big happy family called Capsicum...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Apr 8, 2021
- 13 min
Tomato Tips and Tricks
Growing these most luscious and voluptuous of fruits (yes, fruits) from seeds or from seedlings is easier than you think. The mass...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Apr 1, 2021
- 11 min
Super Duper Spinach
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...
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Upfront and Beautiful
- Mar 24, 2021
- 10 min
'Sweet' Peas
Botanically speaking, peas are fruits, which explains a few things. The pods are the fruits by definition, the peas inside the pods are...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Mar 18, 2021
- 7 min
Radical Root Veg
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...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Mar 11, 2021
- 6 min
Easy Peasy, First Greens of Spring
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...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
Water is Life
"Water is the driving force of all nature," said the humanist and artist Leonardo da Vinci. While that was an enlightened and poetic...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
Growing Food Security
At its most basic, food security grows in living soil. Therein lies the simple solution to food insecurity, but also the problem. We are,...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Feb 18, 2021
- 4 min
Just Dive In
Gardening, like parenting, is largely intuitive. At this time of year, when juggling too many seeds with too little seed starting space,...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Feb 11, 2021
- 6 min
Love Grows
Gardens hold the secrets to unconditional love and to life, and to giving. In our home, this Feast of St. Valentine's Day week has, as do...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Feb 3, 2021
- 6 min
Mimicking Nature's Deep Freeze
Alpine strawberries are too crazy delicious not to grow in abundance, from seed. The doing of it as an early-season indoor project is a...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Jan 27, 2021
- 5 min
Growing a Garden Family
When is the best time to start? It can be a seductive winter ritual, sifting through seed catalogues online and in-hand, planning and...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
My Winter Garden
"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Jan 21, 2021
- 7 min
Garden to Table Menu Planning
Slow-roasted and oven-dried tomatoes, mixed herb and garlic scape pappardelle, thyme-roasted beets, caraway cucumber salad, and...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Jan 5, 2021
- 6 min
Swales and Rain Gardens
In most places in North America, January is the perfect month to embark on a water management and conservation plan for the growing...
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Upfront & Beautiful
- Dec 17, 2020
- 6 min
Gift Idea: Small Batch Kimchi-Spiced Carrot or Radish Pickles + Marinade
It isn't too late to make 'gourmet food store quality' gifts for friends and family, and do it for as little as $0.80 per jar. If you...
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