Fall Gardening Tasks – Feed Your Community, Feed Yourself and then Feed the Soil
It’s that time of year again when harvest aprons swell and kitchen counters overflow with late season garden goodies. My fridge is stuffed with pole beans, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, kale …
Our Mission: To INSPIRE Urbanites to Grow Their Own Food and Reconnect With Nature
As BUFCO heads into its fifteenth year, I reflect back on our metamorphosis from mindless consumers to conscious producers. We were driven by a need to connect with the land, to get back to ba…
Why I Grow My Own Food
Why do you grow your own food? This was a question I posed to workshop participants this winter. I was not at all surprised to hear the wide variety of enthusiastic answers. Take a deeper dive int…
Native Pollinator Gardens 101
There has been so much talk lately about pollinator gardens and happily throughout the city you can see many budding results of this important conversation. Thanks in part to Project Swallowtail…
Seed Saving is an Act of Hope
Garlic chives going to seed
Like many gardeners I go kicking and screaming into winter. Grey skies, slushy sidewalks and shor…
Harvest Know-How
When to harvest? Before the squirrels do!
September is upon us and overflowing baskets of garden goodies are everywhere. But harvesting in Zones 5 and 6 is not just an autumn endeavour. It’s a seas…
Author: Arlene
Arlene (she/her) is an avid gardener and life-long learner who loves to share her knowledge. She is an Organic Master Gardener and Accredited Organic Land Care Practitioner with SOUL (Society for Organic Urban Landcare). Arlene is also an Emmy award winning television director and writer.