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  • Before you post that…

    I love how Facebook can be a place to share and learn different perspectives. I hate, hate, hate, how Facebook turns too often into skirmishes of opinion. In case you don’t know, I live in Alberta. Rural Alberta. In case you don’t know, Facebook has turned into a battleground (at least on my feed) over […]

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    November 27, 2015
    Living
    Bill 6, choices, farms, politics
  • Tree time

    Now that the frost has taken the tenders and the potatoes are 80% dug, my energy is turning from the veggie plot to the landscape. The overgrown state of the flower beds is a little depressing, so I’m focusing on trees. The apples we tried to root from cuttings mostly died; the sole survivor (a […]

    aprildemes

    September 23, 2015
    books, Gardening
    seasons, seed starting, seeds, trees
  • The leap

    I quit my job. It was only supposed to be a one year thing anyway, but they asked me to come back. I considered it, and, between my husband and myself, we decided it wasn’t worth it. The income didn’t justify the strain on the family, and I desperately wanted to get back to writing, […]

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    September 1, 2015
    Writing
    choices, chores, faith
  • Renaissance girl?

    I envy my husband sometimes. He’s an artist with tunnel vision, the classic absentminded professor. He jumps head first into things and doesn’t look back, working with feverish abandon on the project of the moment until the next idea strikes, oblivious to the debris field in his wake. The trained eye can look over his […]

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    July 25, 2015
    Living, Writing
    choices, Da Vinci, hobbies, learning, polymath, procrastination, Renaissance
  • My latest experiment

    I limit myself to trying to grow no more than one new vegetable per year. This guideline is in everyone’s best interests, especially the plants’. I have a hard enough time staying on top of the regular stuff, and catering to the unfamiliar needs of multiple new additions is sure to lead to casualties. This […]

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    May 3, 2015
    Gardening
    container vegetables, sweet potatoes
  • Seed starting notes

    Here’s some of the notes and links from the class I taught Thursday night, straight out of Keynote so very point form! Feel free to contact me with any more questions and thanks for a fun discussion. Terms you might see: F1 hybrid: a cross of two strains of the same species; reliable cultivars bred […]

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    April 24, 2015
    Gardening
    seed starting, seeds
  • All the kids in all the gardens

    After a (I thought) very successful talk at the Calgary Horticultural Society Garden Show last weekend, two of my girls and I enjoyed the booths at the show, and wouldn’t you know it, found more books. (See below.) Then, after returning home and catching up on my digital correspondence, I found all kinds of pictures […]

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    April 14, 2015
    books, Gardening
    books, Calgary Horticultural Society, kids, picture books, Savvy Gardening
  • Kid’s books for gardeners

    In honour of my talk tomorrow at the Calgary Horticultural Society Garden Show (How to Make Gardening a Family Affair, 11 am at Spruce Meadows!), I thought I’d post some of my favourite garden-themed picture books. They’re perfect for sharing, especially on a sunny day in the hammock. The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown I […]

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    April 10, 2015
    Gardening, Parenting
    books, garden books, picture books
  • Why my garden likes toilet paper and freezers

    Despite the snow that has begun to fly again, spring is in full swing at our house. I’ve got two little things to show you that happened this weekend, both ideas for repurposing objects for the garden. I started a bunch of seeds, using plastic salad containers as usual, but I also tried using toilet […]

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    April 6, 2015
    Gardening
    compost screen, Composting, recycling, seed tray, seeds
  • Of getting at it and being in it

    Of getting at it and being in it

    Three weeks from right this minute, I will be speaking at the Calgary Horticultural Society garden show. My topic this year: How to Make Gardening a Family Affair. And I had scheduled today for getting my notes together and starting in earnest on my presentation. I kind of forgot, however, that it is now officially […]

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    March 21, 2015
    Gardening, Parenting
    Calgary Horticultural Society, family, garden show, spring
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