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Continue reading →: Books: Forest ForensicsOne of my goals for this growing season is to read more. I’ve been a great collector of books in the past but I have to confess that most of my gardening books sit alone on the shelf for much of the year. Apparently gardening book knowledge is not transferred…
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Continue reading →: 2023 Year in ReviewSomehow I find myself at the end of another year and since it has been an age since I last posted, I thought I would take a look back at the year that was and offer a few thoughts. It’s been pretty hard to feel hopeful these last few months,…
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Continue reading →: Spring Is Heating UpSpring has finally arrived in Vancouver and to the North and East, so too have the fires. Enormous wildfires have started up in Northern BC and Alberta in an early start to what we now just accept as normal in “fire season.” While the fires rage, record setting temperatures have…
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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 Up
It’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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