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Gardening
From Cloves to Scapes to Bulbs
A garlic tutorial.
A Garden With Gravitas
Lethbridge, Alberta’s storied Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden.
Happy Return, Mark & Ben Cullen’s Tips on Winterizing Your Garden
Gardening is an exercise of continuous investment: plant now, enjoy later. It is a logic that gardeners understand well,...
Home & Farm
Curb Appeal – Why a green driveway is environmentally sexy.
Who knew that climate change, biodiversity and curb appeal are synonymous?
Old-House Energy Upgrades
Four ways to spend less money heating your old, cold home.
Understanding Window Condensation
How wintertime window condensation is related to the insulation value of the glass making
Travel & Culture
Brushstrokes of Giverny on Vancouver Island
How Rose Rogan transformed a former Christmas tree farm into perennial permaculture.
A Cup of Coffee With a Local – Suzanne Crocker
Enjoy a virtual Yukon Sour Toe cocktail, moose sausage and Caveman Bill lore with Dawson City filmmaker Suzanne Crocker.
Going overboard in Georgian Bay
I can claim to have spent more than my lifetime on the water.
Environment
Winter Cover Illustration
Designed by Zach Loeks
The Fuzzy Bear and the Hedgehog
Everything you didn’t know about the woolly bear caterpillar
Putting Food Security to the Test in Canada’s North
A family’s year-long challenge to live off the land where the Arctic Circle is closer than any major city – 3 skeptical teenagers, 1 reluctant husbandno salt, no caffeine, no sugar and -40 temperatures
Food
Field Notes From a Canadian Locovore
Jane Reid’s love affair with her B.C. backyard. It was flavour that first made me a local food fan
Curry Comfort
Chef Ilona shares her antidote to the gales of November.
Experiments in Wild and Fruity Fermentation
How Two Toronto Microbiologists Became Cider Mixologists
Podcast
Of Hens and Hops
Chickens as companions and a beerless perennial
A Japanese Garden, Pyramid Wine and the Tenacity of Plants
Respecting the Lessons of the Living World
A Fish Tale and Buffalo Cheese
Seafood Crate and Buffalo Milking in Stratford
Lost & Found Recipes
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