Tag: gardening
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Swiss Chard is My Kale
Almost as easy to grow is green onions, Swiss chard is one of those crops that never seems to fail. Swiss chard can be planted very early in the spring and grows quickly, providing a first green crop of the season for those who have suffered through a long winter without greens from the garden.…
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Food Revolution Day 2014 Pt 2
As I posted yesterday, today is Food Revolution Day. This is a thing started by Jamie Oliver as a way to reconnect kids to food. Reconnecting them to how it is grown, where it comes from, how to prepare it, how to serve it and all those wonderful things that food can be. As a…
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Buy Local Program Expanding
If you are not interested or not able to grow your own food as I like to do, the next best thing is to buy local. Now shoppers will be able to identify B.C. foods for family meals, school snacks and even pet food, as a result of a branding program the B.C. Food Processors…
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Mid-Season Update of the 100 Mile Diet
Time for a mid-season update on the 100 Mile Diet. As I have previously blogged, the front yard garden has been expanding. Having spent some of my formative years on a small farm, I have difficulty leaving a patch of soil as a useless patch of lawn. I like to grow food. Last fall we…
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A Rethink of the 100 Foot Diet Lay-out
After much consideration and thought, I came to the realization that having two raised garden beds in the backyard was too much. The original raised garden bed that I built last season was too far away from the side fence and just took up too much of the room that the kids and dog could use. …
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More 100 Mile Diet
Our first bean has poked his (or is it her?) head up out of the soil in our little backyard garden plot. As well as the first bean is a solid row of Swiss Chard. I have no idea what possessed me to plant Swiss Chard but I did.…
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Our 100 Mile Diet Shrunk
Here are our first and second generation radishes. Each generation is planted seven days apart to prolong the early spring season of growing. You can also see the beets (those red leafy things in the background) that were planted at the same time as the first generation of radishes. Radishes grow to harvest readiness so…