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Lawns to Loaves: growing grain in the city!

May 26, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 19 Comments

A few years ago, I became fascinated by the idea of growing grain. I explored small-space grain production, saw first hand how a community garden had integrated a grain-growing project into an attractive edible landscape, and pored over Small-Scale Grain Raising, Gene Logsdon’s classic text on small-space grains. But all my research didn’t change the […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: community garden, grains, wheat

Gardens to visit: Terra Nova

July 27, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

My family and I visited the Terra Nova Rural Park in Richmond today. Despite having being told about the awesomeness of Terra Nova over a year ago, today was our first visit. Spelt growing in the Daily Bread section of the Schoolyard Society garden mixes wonderfully with other edibles. The original ornamental grass! In addition […]

Filed Under: Gardens to Visit, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: community garden, grains, Schoolyard Society, Terra Nova

Why aren’t more young people gardening?

December 10, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Have you been following the discussion over at Cold Climate Gardening on why more older gardeners don’t blog? Makes for interesting reading, and links quite nicely into my own personal interest in why more younger people don’t garden. I’m not alone in this query. Hanna at This Garden Is Illegal responded to Katie at Garden […]

Filed Under: Raving and Whining Tagged With: community garden, craft, food security, garden marketing, gardening, peak oil, young people, younger generation

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