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Continue reading →: Urban Permaculture Video SeriesHi folks! I hope you are finding some light among the ongoing absurd violence of empire. I just wanted to share that I’ve been spending the last few months thinking about where to best direct my energies with Last Ditch. This year I will focus on this blog and also…
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Continue reading →: Growing Food in Small SpacesValue the Vertical I grow food on less than 200 square feet, so any time I can maximize height, I get to grow more in a smaller footprint. That means sprawling ground covers are out for the most part but tomatoes and other vines and climbers make good choices. Even…
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Continue reading →: Garden “Shed” RamblesAs a part of de-winterizing this blog and the Last Ditch YouTube channel, I’ve started a new series of videos called Garden “Shed” Rambles. This series will be on a “when-I-feel-like-it” basis and will be me sharing what’s going on in my garden and some of the topics I’m thinking…
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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…









