Archive for 'Organic Gardening'

Looking for organic farms and rain barrel builders in Calgary, AB

19 April 2009

A couple of days ago I received a request from a teacher in Calgary who is looking for good learning experience for his students. While teaching in Guelph this teacher and his students went for a field trip where they took a tour of a working organic farm and built rain barrels on a volunteer [...]

Capacity, capacity, must have more capacity!!

11 August 2007

This month has been a very dry month. We have have had lots of blue sky which has been great for just sitting in our yard but not so good for our gardens. If we hadn’t installed our 3 rain barrels we would have been using the hose long ago. But now as the [...]

Square Foot Gardening and a Rain Barrel - A match made in heaven?

4 July 2007

This year we have decided to do things a bit differently.
We received the book “Square Foot Gardening” by Mel Bartholomew. The basis of SFG is as follows:
“Square Foot Gardening is a uniquely simplified method of gardening that produces 100% of the harvest in only 20% of the space — AND — without [...]