cultivating a sustainable life
Please excuse the poor quality of today’s photos. It was so overcast when I took these, that I barely had enough light to get them without a flash (and I hate using the flash!). Here’s what’s happening around the garden these days. The calendula’s still …
Is there any surer sign that it’s fall than the return of these two things? It was rainy, cool, and very autumny out there today. I’m still busy preserving summer’s bounty, but summer is definitely over. I have a sudden urge to curl up with …
We’re going to be at a concert tonight, so I’m doing a midday post. Well, I think the fall weather has officially arrived. It started pouring last night and has been raining ever since – my silly coastal kids were so happy that they were …
We haven’t got a lot of space in our tiny little garden, but I couldn’t resist planting a dozen corn plants. I put in a
I harvested my onions recently and am pleasantly surprised by how well they turned out. I experimented with growing them from seed this year, which I’d never done before, and I have to admit that I was pretty skeptical while I was transplanting those piddly …
By now most of us have heard the benefits of buying local – it gives business to small farmers which boosts the local economy; it prevents the needless use of oil required to ship things from halfway around the world that we could have gotten …
I thought I’d post just a few more pictures from our trip, if you can bear it. One of my favorite things about Salt Spring and the other islands is the abundance of roadside farmstands. There is such a level of trust here that these …
My favorite way to spend a lazy Saturday morning (or Sunday morning, for that matter), is puttering around in my kitchen, baking and drinking tea while listening to the Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio. For those who don’t know it, the Vinyl Cafe is a …
Today was a sad day for my family, as my grandmother passed away early this morning. She was diagnosed with lung cancer a couple of years ago, and was being lovingly cared for by my mother for the last few months of her life.Thelma was …
Blackberry bushes are one of the most invasive plants that we have around here. Any untended space is quickly overrun with these opportunistic brambles – but you won’t hear me complaining! As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing that beats the flavour of a fully …