(Say in creepy voice-over actor voice:) – Have you always wanted your own Versaille-style parterre but can’t afford the maintenance staff? – Do you love the idea of a bouncy castle but lack children to justify the purchase? With Tjep’s Urban Garden you get both parterre and bounciness all in one! The go-anywhere, inflatable Urban […]
Archives for April 2007
Happy connections
I’m not big on logic. For example, I simultaneously reject the idea that there is a divine order to things, that we are “destined” to live out our lives in a predetermined way, yet I also somehow believe that everything happens for a reason. I fully acknowledge that I can’t defend this position. I’ve had […]
Teaching sustainability
Love it: Laura Secord School’s Mr. Burns: “Excellent! The more power you fools use, the richer I get!” I met Karen Wik one rainy night just over a month ago. I’d ducked into Famous Foods, the grocery store just a few minutes’ walk from my house (which, by some miraculous coincidence, is also an amazing […]
Go with the flow
I love the brilliant simplicity of John Arndt’s master’s thesis project, the Flow Kitchen. John designed the kitchen workstation to utilize natural processes (like gravity, evaporation, decomposition and growth) and create a symbiotic little ecosystem. The dishrack drains onto the herbs or other edibles stored below it. Food scraps go into a little cup that […]
Earth Day 2007
Happy Earth Day, dolls! How are you marking the occasion? (Yes, I know, we’re gardeners. Everyday is Earth Day. Right.) I’m heading down the road to the MOBY garden to do some cobbing. Let me explain. MOBY, or My Own Back Yard, is a very cool community garden project near the Commercial Drive skytrain station […]
Stone plant markers
Normally I don’t have the time for most of the nonsense the Martha Stewart cartel cooks up. But I came across this “good thing” in the May 07 issue of Living and thought this little stone herb marker project might actually be both realistic and useful. I’ve never quite understood the need for herb markers. […]
Operation: Moss graffiti
moss graffiti
Is your garden contributing to climate change?
The energy cost for an electric mower (like the Black and Decker model shown above) is typically no more than $5.00 per year – and costs far less to the environment than gas-powered versions. As gardeners, we like to think we’re pretty “green.” But did you know that gas lawnmowers and trimmers release about 80,000 […]