It was ideal winter weather for working outside yesterday. (the sun even came out!) What a beautiful day and it looks like today wants to be sunny too. Lots of weeding to do in my garden right now….west coast gardening involves weeding all year ’round at my place. The weeds that grow in the garden [. . .]
a permaculture link
Last night, I was perusing a chapter of “Gaia’s Garden” (one of the books I mentioned in my last post), learning more about garden guilds. I decided to take a look at the author’s website where I found this article: The Myth of Self Reliance. I really enjoyed reading it so thought I’d post it [. . .]
Another New Year!
So here we are smack dab in the middle of January again. Winter Solstice to mid-January is one of my favourite times of year because I get to set new intentions, make plans, dream, organize, order seeds, visit….and read by the fire!! Here are the 4 gardening books that have really captured my attention this [. . .]
Happy Christmas!
Ok! I’m done. My jobs are finished for now. What a good feeling. I’m going to take a week long break! I had lots of fun today zooming along the island roads delivering winter salad shoots, microgreens and yuletide bouquets to happy folks. It really was so much fun. I became so unexpectedly busy this [. . .]
snow and cold
The snow cover that’s not going away, the cold getting colder and the nasty wind have all convinced me that it’s a better idea to stay inside by the warm fire and do some indoor work today. As long as the power stays on I can even do some work on the computer! A few [. . .]
microgreens
One of my first microgreens mixes (for production) ever is almost ready to offer at Happy Tides Health Foods this week! Very limited quantities because I’m still experimenting and developing them. This one in the photo is a trio of baby arugula plants, purple radish shoots and sunflower shoots. Tangy flavours. It will be ideal [. . .]