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  • Belgian Apple Fence

    If you need a “privacy screen” somewhere in your yard you really should consider a Belgian Apple Fence. About ten years we planted the fence pictured below at my parent’s home. It quite effectively screens the back yard from the lane that travels behind their home. The fence is relatively easy to plant and grow…

  • Harvesting Volunteer Garlic

    This morning I took advantage of the few brief minutes of sunshine that we had and dug up some of the volunteer garlic that it been growing in one of my garden pots. As I said, these were volunteers. They were pieces of garlic that were left in the pot from a previous year and…

  • Emma Lea Farms U-Pick Strawberries

    One thing that is really important to me is making sure my kids know where food, real food, comes from. And, just to be clear, food does not simply come from a grocery store. We have our front yard garden as a way for the kids to see how their efforts can help produce food.…

  • Sushi Paradise in New Westminster

    In my ongoing efforts to fill out the must try sushi joints page here on my blog I tried a new place today – Sushi Paradise. Sushi Paradise is a little bit unique in Metro Vancouver because it is owned and operated by Japanese people. I do love my Korean cut sushi but I also…

  • My Must Try Sushi Joint – Asa Sushi

    We have our must-try breakfast joints page started and now it is time to start a page for must-try sushi joints. I am talking about the small, hole-in-the-wall type places that we pop into on our way home or after work for a quick snack (who needs to arrive home starving and cranky?). The first…

  • Front Yard Blueberries

    It is looking like our front yard blueberries will be very productive this year. I love growing blueberries not so much because we can collect them and put them in jars or make jams or pies or anything like that, I like them because we just stand in the front yard talking and eating right…

  • How to Make a Patio Pallet Garden

    This is the next step that I want to take in my urban gardening experience – a pallet garden. All you need is a pallet, a couple bags of soil, a roll of landscape cloth and a stapler (with staples). This seems so easy to do, and if you have a limited amount of space,…

  • High School Cafeteria Food

    High school cafeteria food certainly has come along way recently. For example, yesterday the culinary arts program students at New Westminster Secondary School, under the direction of Chef Dehghan, prepped and cooked these delicious looking popovers, or as some call them, Yorkshire Puddings, with a garlic cream sauce and sautéed vegetables. The popovers were the…

  • Sizzling Design For the Perfect BBQ Summer Garden

    If hosting family barbecues are your idea of heaven then it’s time to think about your garden design and layout with this in mind. Outdoor living is increasingly popular and creating relaxed al fresco dining areas mean that families and friends will have a lovely place in which to relax during the summer months. Here…

  • Local Solutions to Local Compost Issues

    Listening to the CBC Early Edition this morning and it was interesting to hear about Luke’s Corner Bar and Kitchen’s attempts to deal with their own compost waste in-house. However, first a little background on compostable waste. Currently there is a move to separate compostable waste out of the garbage “stream” and waste management businesses…