GREENS

Doug and Stacy live off-grid in a log cabin where they grow and harvest most of their own food. In this video, they show you how to grow salad greens all winter even in the snow! Watch the video here!

Here are some tips from Vasili’s Garden on no-dig lettuce. Vasili’s Garden offers information to create a healthier and sustainable lifestyle for you, your family, and your friends. Bringing back the ways of life that people throughout the world have been living for hundreds of years, growing and preparing their own food for their family and friends.

Fall and Summer leaf lettuces are being trialed across Ontario through the Farmer-Led Research Program, and gardeners, farmers and seed savers across Canada are growing out lettuce seed for Seeds of Diversity Canada’s Seed Library. The diverse plants that make up the lettuce crop family present lots of challenges and rewards, especially when it comes to growing lettuce in the summer heat, and when saving and cleaning those tiny, light-as-air seeds. Tune into this 1-hour webi

In exchanges that take place on the various local Facebook gardening pages, a common question is “Is this a weed?” and “How do I kill it?” Those questions speak volumes about our lack of understanding of the ecological relationships in our gardens and our ignorance of the value of plants we do not plant ourselves, as food, medicine and restorers of the soil. The plants that spring up wherever soil is disturbed or degraded have a job to do: they restore soil fertility. Tenacio

Thanks to Petra at Fruition Seeds in New York state and her crew of young gardeners dedicated to community and organic seeds, we are sharing these tips on easy to grow greens for your garden or farm. This post is adapted from a recent email we received from them. You can find their seeds online at fruitionseeds.com. Spinach So cold-hardy and so succulent, we cannot imagine life without spinach. Fruition shares organic seeds impressively adapted to our short seasons, often ove