Garden to Table
One of the gardening challenges I hear is that a crop flowers but never gives any harvests. This is often a pollination problem, but not all crops need pollinators to give you yields. Crops that produce leafy greens, roots or any of the cabbage family like cauliflower or broccoli don’t grow from flowers, instead, they grow…
I was gardening for years before I stopped to think about whether or not my garden was costing me money or providing me with healthier and cheaper organic produce because of my efforts. Of course, when you’re starting out your garden will cost you more money because you have to build new garden beds, buy soil…
Gardening is hard. Really hard. You get the weeds under control one week and then next week they’ve taken over again. It can feel like way too much work just to harvest fresh food from your garden. You spend hours choosing seeds, sowing your crops, watering, growing, tending to the weeds and then you finally…
Today I’m delighted to share a review of a wonderful book ‘It All Begins with Food’ by Leah Garrad-Cole. Thanks to the Food Bloggers of Canada for this book to review. Healthy Family Food with Organic or Local Ingredients As a mother of 3 littles 7 & under and pregnant with our 4th baby this…
Do you have too much homegrown kale or wish for a healthy snack that even your kids will love? Kale chips baby. Now when I mention kale chips people either get excited or they say they don’t like them. Truly there are many different recipes for kale chips and thus difference in flavor. This recipe…
Clay soil can be challenging to grow vegetables in. It wasn’t until my 8th year gardening that I found out first hand the challenges of growing in clay soil. My first garden was also clay soil, but being a newbie gardener I didn’t know what I was doing in general. I still remember trying to…
