Permaculture Ottawa's Christopher Bisson has started a new online permaculture magazine for Canada. Here's my contribution: http://t...

…on purpose. I'm stratifying which means giving seeds a period of moist cold to overcome germination  inhibition so they will sprout. ...

Plums plumping up in the holistic orchard. It’s always great when people who you meet on the internet live close enough that you can pop ...

Geneva Crab Apple 2010 Gardening is an exercise in optimism: that things will be better, that visions of the delights of a gentle earth c...

A bag of 'green' black walnuts At the edge of our clearing are planted 100 black walnuts, Juglans nigra , in lumber spacing or at...

... delicious? A slightly rain split head of San Michele X Red Rock Mammoth F1 At least they can be. Given the organic status of our ac...

I have been searching for these people for a while. Sometimes I would hear rumors about folks interested in better utilizing our fragmente...

It may not be the official calendar date for the beginning of spring but early on Tuesday with mist laying heavy on the ground and geese fly...

Today we harvested our Christmas tree from the small group of spruce planted, I think, for that purpose. Most are a bit overgrown so work be...

Here is the second picking of apples from one of my six (I think?) apple trees. These seem to be early, thin skinnned, juicy and large apple...

I've shared with the bugs. I will share with the critters including deer. And then we will feast on the bits that remain. This tree is...

We started late, only put in ten taps and had variable weather. The buds on a silver maple broke the day after we finished with temperatures...

Tops and tails of parsley root Once again, thanks to the previous owners, I got a harvest today of parsley root. It seems that a number of t...

Is it maple syrup yet? Youngest 'checks' on our first tap. Having acres and acres of rocky maple bush* is not only pretty in the fa...