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In My Backyard
In My Backyard is a short film that chronicles director Jamie Day Fleck’s personal journey into backyard vegetable gardening.
Grow Hope: A Simple Guide to Creating Your Own Food Garden at Home
A brand new food-gardening book for our times.
Growing in the Right Direction
The dynamics behind biodynamic gardening.
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, but often lose sight of toward the end of the gardening season. This is misguided, as Canadian gardeners would know that winter is the most...
A Whole New World – Veggie Remix
Niki Jabbour, author of the new book Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun, shares her love of carrots—and not just the orange kind!
My Herb Garden at South Pond Farms
Danielle French’s passion, her Herb Garden at South Pond Farms
True Leaf – Experience the joy of growing!
Whether that’s outdoor or indoor, plants for beautifying your property or vegetables to eat, we’ve cultivated a seed offering that is sure to meet your growing needs.
Sharing Common Ground with your Pets
Having the run of the garden is an open invitation for a dog to work out.
A Mid-Winter Dream: Garden Planning under Three Feet of Snow
This is the time of year the owner of South Pond Farms starts planning the events and menus she’ll be offering when summer finally comes. When I moved to this farm Southern Ontario over ten years ago, I never imagined I would turn so much of the land over to growing...
Celebrating the art of plowing
Picture brightly coloured decor, smiling faces, a welcoming ambience under sunny skies, and spectators in a decidedly relaxed mood. That is what greeted visitors to the 2015 edition of the International Plowing Match (IMB) in Finch, Ontario, a festival celebrating the...
Let it grow with Mark Cullen
Summertime serves up the best of fresh fare, with fruits and vegetables packed with flavour. Nurture your own crops this season for the ultimate take on eating local, and watch your garden grow.
New Ways to Finance Farming
This is just a sample of the great stories coming in our March Gardening Digest. It’s a challenge that has scared off many an aspiring farmer: How can a person embark on a career in food production without solid financial backing? Well, it turns out that some...
How Garlic Got Its Groove Back
This is just a sample of the great stories coming in our March Gardening Digest. How did Canadian garlic change from a reviled smelly flavour to a much-embraced culinary and medicinal treasure? And how did it arrive on these shores from a remote location in Central...
It’s tiller time!
Rototillers are not a sexy piece of equipment. But for about two hours a year there’s nothing better for sod-busting, earth churning goodness.