Okay, so I’m a bit slow on the uptake with this product. Terracycle launched in the spring, and has been available locally for at least a couple months, and I just heard about it. I blame my distraction on wedding and school madness. Terracycle’s product, which sounds to me like liquified worm castings, (or, as […]
Wildlife for city dwellers
I wish I had a farm, or at least a few acres to spread out on. I’d have chickens and goats and alpacas and at least a few dogs. But since I’m stuck with my 200 sq.ft. city garden, where the only critters are cats, neighbourhood children and the occasional skunk, I’m loving these Salvor […]
World Naked Gardening Day
Saturday, September 9 is the second annual World Naked Gardening Day, and man, I wish I could participate. It’s an event that’s right up my quirky little alley. Problem is, I don’t have much shade in my wee garden, and the sun and my skin don’t get along. Even with SPF 5900. So I’ll have […]
Tofino Botanical Gardens
Ah, Tofino. How I love thee. The surfing, the storms, the Sound (Clayoquot Sound, that is). Back in the summer of ’93, when I was a 17-year old idealist telling everyone I met to hug a tree, over 825 people were arrested for protesting the logging of Clayoquot Sound’s old growth forests. I caught wind […]
Wedded bliss
Q. What kind of bride drags her new husband to a botanical garden while on their honeymoon? A. A gardener, of course. (I also would have accepted “a sensible one”.) That’s right, I’m married! As of August 27, Ben advanced from “boyfriend” (or sometimes, if I was feeling mature, “partner”) to husband. The wedding day […]
Edible Garden Project
I met some people from the Edible Garden Project at my farmer’s market the other day. One part GWA Plant-a-Row-for-the-Hungry, one part local activism, the Edible Garden Project is based on Vancouver’s North Shore, but has potential for duplication anywhere. The Edible Garden Project seeks out unused garden space both on private and public property, […]
Dear Lord,
Please save me from this pestilence. I can’t handle the aphids and whitefly any longer. Please send ladybugs and parasitic wasps soon. In desperation, Andrea
Take your vitamins
Check out the wonderfully bizarre Vitamin Living, a London-based design studio that makes “extra-ordinary products that make their owners’ lives a little less ordinary.” Like these bone china gnomes with their bold graphics; “the “must-have” gnome for the modern consumer.” ! Or how about the IV Plant Pot, a self-watering container with a medical drip […]