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Flora & Fauna Episode 2: Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are densely packed with nutrients, delicious roasted or mashed with a dab of butter, and notoriously too heat-loving to grow in Canada. It

The Tricky Tomato: Fruit or vegetable? 

By Heather Klein Is the tomato a fruit or is it a vegetable? This age-old question regarding the tomato actually has an answer. It’s both!

Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell

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

10 neat things about cucumbers

About Cucumbers

1. Like broccoli with fewer calories. Cucumbers are among the world’s healthiest foods, containing health-giving lignans and flavonoids, as do broccoli, cabbage, garlic and onions,

10 neat things about edible gardens

Edible Garden

1. Plants feed the world. Only plants know how to change the energy of the sun into digestible, edible protein and they do this with

carrots yummy crunchy

Carrots – Yummy, Crunchy

Carrots are easy to grow and are filled with vitamins and minerals, it’s no wonder they are the vegetable of the year! What is more

sowing seeds

Sowing Seeds

By Mark MacDonald Getting a head start on spring, scores of farm crops have been cultivated for centuries through the annual and laborious practice of

planting companions

Planting Companions

Long before chemical fertilizers and pesticides appeared, there were planting companions where farmers and gardeners knew that certain plants grow and taste better when planted

allium family

The Allium Family

Knowing the difference of the allium family, between shallots, green onions, scallions, chives and leeks can be very confusing. One reason is that the same

Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 18: Seeds with Kevin Twomey

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