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Continue reading →: 2022: Year in Review2022 is over. They year the just wouldn’t quit. In a year that had a bit of everything and no shortage of climate chaos, I did have some success in the garden and I thought it would be nice to sit down and reflect a little on last year’s growing…
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Continue reading →: Tumbling Into FallSomehow every year, no matter how much I try to prepare for how quickly summer goes, suddenly it’s September. August seems to have done as it always does: arrives and disappears before you really know what happened. If I’m being honest, it was a hell of a month. I try…
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Continue reading →: Climate Change and PermacultureThis week, I’m trying to tackle a question that I had at the beginning of the pandemic: is permaculture a viable climate solution? I’m also somewhat bracing because I’m always a little unsure of sharing controversial opinions on the internet, like the earth is round, vaccines work, and climate change…
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Continue reading →: For the Farmless FarmersWhen I started this blog, I was hoping within a year or two, I would be merrily blogging from some quiet forested acreage somewhere on a Gulf Island. I would lazily sip coffee and wax poetic while tending to my beans and squash, making enough from my roadside stand to…
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Continue reading →: Leaving Farmers Out of Climate Conversations Risks Even More DamageIn an already tumultuous time, seeing the situation in the Netherlands and Ireland unfold has me worried about how democracies under threat will cope with both climate change and civil unrest. I’m not a climate scientist, nor a farmer, so I am not coming at this as an expert. I…
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Continue reading →: Catching UpIt’s been a minute since I wrote anything here. It has been… a wild couple of years. In between a lot of personal loss and some real tough stretches of months, I was able to come back to the garden as a place to just exist. A place to relax…
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Continue reading →: The Parts of Starting a Farm No One Wants to Talk AboutIf you’re like me, you like finding mini docs about small farms on YouTube. You pour endlessly over books and graphics, trying to envision a life connected to land and growing food. You picture an abundance of bees, of wildlife, and of a busy market stall. But there’s a part…
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Continue reading →: Community Gardens of the Physically Distant FutureI was visiting a small, charming community garden along False Creek the other day with a friend and something struck me. A family entered with their child and we all immediately turned to how to maintain enough distance between us. We looked around awkwardly and then all shifted accordingly so…
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Continue reading →: Adventures in Container PotatoesLast year I tried to grow a few potatoes from sprouts off a potato from the store and the results were pretty lacklustre. I got a few small potatolings but for the amount of time I waited, I assumed it just wasn’t a viable option. This year I filled up…
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