Gardening

How to Satisfy a Healthy Appetite by Mark Cullen

How to Satisfy a Healthy Appetite by Mark Cullen

The importance of eating well has never been as popular as it is today. Given the increase in the number of processed foods available in supermarkets, it is a challenge for anyone who wants to snack on fresh, healthy food. Growing your own snack food is a great way to...

Harrowsmith Jr.  – Emma’s Tomato Patch

Harrowsmith Jr. – Emma’s Tomato Patch

I first grew Reisetomate in the summer of 2017, and it quickly became one of my favourites. Why was it one of my favourites? Because it surprised me. I didn’t expect this tomato to look the way it did. It’s always great to find an unfamiliar wonder in your garden, and...

Dispatches from a Japanese Garden – Buried Treasure

Dispatches from a Japanese Garden – Buried Treasure

While much of Canada is still in the grips of a deep freeze, in the Kansai region of Japan, February is the first potato-planting season of the year. The fact that I am not only beginning a new planting season, but am still harvesting a wealth of vegetables from last...

Dispatches from a Japanese Garden – The Land I Farm

Dispatches from a Japanese Garden – The Land I Farm

The land I farm lies in the mountains of southern Kyoto, a one-hour train ride, and two small mountain ranges east of Osaka. It’s within the boundaries of the Kansai region, an area 27,340 km2, of nearly 23 million inhabitants. To put that into perspective, that is an...

Harrowsmith Almanac 2019

Harrowsmith Almanac 2019

Fall in love with Harrowsmith’s 2019 Almanac… This edition is full of nostalgia! Have you ever wondered about the history of the annual Milk calendar? Every responsible cook has a coveted Milk recipe in their files thanks to the Dairy Farmers of Canada. We’re thrilled...

Vancouver’s Street Farms: Germinating Seeds and Hope

Vancouver’s Street Farms: Germinating Seeds and Hope

Street Farm - Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier By: Michael Ableman Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016 Paperback, 256 pages $41.95 Fragility and strength. In Michael Ableman’s latest book, Street Farm - Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier,...

Field of dreams

Field of dreams

Fifty-five bunches of chard, 75 heads of lettuce, 110 bunches of kale, 18 kg (40 pounds) of salad mix, 13.6 kg (30 pounds) of spinach, and many more items are assigned, and we set off to harvest. I finish harvesting my last bunch of kale and starting walk back to the...

Harrowsmith’s Ultimate Father’s Day Gift Guide

Harrowsmith’s Ultimate Father’s Day Gift Guide

My dad taught me all the essential stuff: how to throw a knuckle ball, pop a wheelie, crack off a slap shot and take a fish hook out of my shirt after my kid sister cast her line. He came to ALL of my soccer games and cross-country races and clipped out every crappy...

It Will Be Spring When It Is Spring

It Will Be Spring When It Is Spring

The winter was especially long — deeply cold days with lots of wind and interjections of ice and snow. It’s only once we think the bad weather has passed that we begin again, stacking wood, planting, trimming, and cleaning the layers of dust that have accumulated in...

Tomatoes as Catalysts for Change

Tomatoes as Catalysts for Change

Think you know tomatoes? Maybe. But what’s the tasty fruit saying about community and food security in Lanark County, Ontario, and way up in Iceland? Down the highway southwest of Canada’s capital, the Neighbourhood Tomato Community Gardens project is all about...

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