Aristotle coined the idiom ‘Nature abhors a vacuum’, to illustrate his belief that empty and unfilled spaces are unnatural — that where...

Busy people deserve a thoughtful, beautiful and well designed garden maintenance program that will save them time and money, and inspire...

Our much-loved veggie dog Dave is a constant source of amusement and inspiration for the whole family. He knows for example, that digging...

How climate change has changed me for the better. ‘Observe and Interact’ is the first principle of permaculture. What this means in...

Garden to table in 15 minutes or less, for just pennies per person For many reasons, I’ve given up investing in the traditional sense....

It seems fitting that, as we wait impatiently for winter to depart our chilly corner of the country and take with it the unseasonally...

Why we should educate children about the crazy cool soil food web and life-giving mycelial networks, while they are very young — while...

Sunday May 20th is Plant a Seed Day in North America. I love this collective food-security inspired call to action to plant a seed, but...

- Soil biology is quickly becoming my favourite subject to contemplate, read, talk and write about. Soil health, as an agent of change,...

Two years ago, our front yard looked like most others in most neighbourhoods — plenty of grass surrounded by a hedge of tall non-native...

The late great humanist, biologist, environmental theorist, author and philosopher E.O. Wilson wrote, “If all mankind were to disappear,...

Following the crazy ‘cold-snap of a lifetime’ that fell bracingly here in Vancouver, Canada, between alternating flights of wet snow and...

Wishing readers a happy new year seems inappropriate somehow, insensitive possibly, given the social, environmental, and economic...

As 2021 draws to a close and I sharpen focus on the time and resources that I have to honour family and friends, the wide funnel of...

Always at this time of year, I am thinking about coal. I reflect on the proverbial lump of carbonized plant matter that we joke about...

One of my favourite quotes about gardening, speaks insightfully to its least celebrated season. “And don't think the garden loses its...

On ‘Giving Tuesday’ of this week, my regional seed supplier was still hosting its week-long Green Friday 50% Off Sale on all vegetable,...

80-proof infusions may encourage family and friends to stay hopeful and close to home. We don’t have a choice really, here on the edge of...

I could feel it coming; something was in the wind. Just moments after the first soft frost of the season, an unseasonably warm wind...

Not only is sleep delicious, it is nutritious. Sleep feeds our bodies, minds and souls in ways that we are only beginning to fully...