Design lessons from Lethbridge, Alberta’s storied Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden
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Dispatches from a Japanese Garden. A Legume that’s Good for Body, Brain and Soil!
Peanut; the name makes a lot of sense. Technically, a peanut is a legume, from the fabaceae or pea/bean family, but it looks, tastes and packs all the nutritional power of a nut. The scientific name from the often repetitive binominal nomenclature created by Swedish...
The Living Larder; The Japanese Garden in Winter Continues to Provide
I’m hanging up laundry on the balcony on a cold sunny day, when I hear the angry voice down the street. Two men stand beside my garden, one is pointing to my new leaf- mulching box complaining loudly how it touches the cinder block wall that marks his property line....
Dispatches from a Japanese Garden -The Youngest in the Valley
Introducing our newest gardening blog: Dispatches from a Japanese Garden, by Keith Adams. Through the magic of social media, our food editor, Signe Langford, reached out to an old high school buddy, who had moved to Japan decades ago; this collaboration is the result....