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CLG Podcast Flora & Fauna Garden Design Ideas Gardening for Beginners Local Gardener

Flora & Fauna Podcast 4: Indigenous Gardening

June 18, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 2790 Views ecological gardening

For over a century, scientists at the Summerland Research and Development Centre have studied sustainable agriculture in B.C.’s Okanagan region,

Gardening for Beginners

How to Grow Mushrooms at Home

May 25, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 3772 Views DIY gardening, ecological gardening, Fungi, Gardening for Beginners, Home gardening, Indoor Gardening, mushrooms

By Tania Moffat Growing mushrooms is unlike growing any other vegetable. Fungi grow from spores rather than seeds. These spores

Flowers Gardening for Beginners Perennials Plants

8 Perennials That Attract Our Friends the Bees

March 30, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2802 Views Asters, Black-eyed Susan, Catmint, crocus, Eco-friendly gardening, ecological gardening, gardening, Goldenrod, Perennials, pollinators, Purple coneflower, snowdrops

Are you looking for ways to attract more bees to your garden this year? More and more we are learning

10 neat things about sea buckthorn

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

10 Neat Things About Sea Buckthorn

September 29, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 5219 Views drought tolerant plants, ecological gardening, Medicinal plants, nitrogen fixer, Omega-7, radiation burn treatment, Sea buckthorn, Siberian pineapple, skin care, vitamin C

1. Shiny horse. Sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamoides, is a shrub or tree, growing eight to 12 feet tall, native to Europe

Edibles Gardening Science

A Quebec Family Analyses a Year of Data

July 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2110 Views ecological gardening, food production, food savings, gardening labour, greenhouses, harvest data, Homegrown produce, Quebec family, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening

How much work does it take to grow most of the produce our Quebec family eats in a year? How

garden of corinne

Beautiful Gardens New Brunswick

Garden of Corinne Hersey

April 25, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 2463 Views community gardening, Corinne Hersey, ecological gardening, food sovereignty, foraging, Natural Capital Gardens, pollinator habitat, urban gardening, vegetable garden, wild edibles

Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Everybody gardens for their own reasons, and for Corinne, those reasons are for food

Beautiful Gardens Nova Scotia

Garden of Greg Auton

January 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 4966 Views backyard gardening, borders, ecological gardening, garlic scapes, Greg Auton, mulching, Nova Scotia garden, root vegetables, time-efficient gardening, vegetable garden

Greg Auton, Brookside, Nova Scotia Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie As Greg Auton shows people his garden, he doles

Beautiful Gardens New Brunswick

Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell

January 27, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2813 Views ecological gardening, Flowers, garden aesthetics, gardening innovations, Maggie Connell, Medicinal plants, New Brunswick garden, raised beds, rural property, vegetable gardening

Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell, New Brunswick Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Maggie’s garden explodes with life. Containers

2022 is Canada's Year of the Garden

2022 is Canada’s Year of the Garden

November 12, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 2820 Views Canada's Year of the Garden, Canadian Garden Council, ecological gardening, environmental health, garden benefits, garden heritage, gardening community, gardening culture, public spaces, urban gardens

Proclaiming 2022 Canada’s Year of the Garden: A national movement to connect with plants Gardens and gardening contribute to the

10 neat things about compost

About Compost

March 18, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 3257 Views biochar, compost, compost tumbler, composting tips, ecological gardening, humus, mushroom compost, organic gardening, soil health, vermicompost

1. What every good compost pile needs. Nothing can happen to a compost heap unless it has carbon (brown and

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