Garden design / Events

...garden, care for your growing veggies, and harvest them.  It will be a very hands-on workshop so wear your gloves and boots – you will be getting dirty, and guaranteed to enjoy every minute of it! We will begin by defining the garden space – where is the best place to plant to allow for easy moving throughout the garde...

What are your needs – Birds for eggs or meat? Purchasing – Day olds vs. two or three week old chicks? When to get them? Heat lamps Organic vs. conventional – What are the different requirements for each? Chicken coop options – Shelters, pens, chicken tractors, free range, free run, roosting Feed – different timelines f...

What are your needs – Birds for eggs or meat? Purchasing – Day olds vs. two or three week old chicks? When to get them? Heat lamps Organic vs. conventional – What are the different requirements for each? Chicken coop options – Shelters, pens, chicken tractors, free range, free run, roosting Feed – different timelines f...

...garden – garden plan, planting diagram, harvest chart, time/funds available. Methods - straw bale gardening, vertical gardening, container gardening, interplanting, companion planting. Seed choice – days to maturity, canning. Materials – potting up space, water, seeding log, brush, tools. Seeding Where to put seed tray...

You're invited to take part in the Greenbelt Fund's Local Food Symposium on February 3 and 4, 2015. A forum for sharing ideas, innovations and successes about Ontario Food.  Held at Queen's Landing in Niagara-on-the Lake, the symposium will consist of two full days with site-visits, round table discussions, and keyno...

...gardening basics permaculture design and practices companion planting (plants that compliment or protect each other) dynamic accumulators (plants that accumulate nutrients & feed the soil) plant selection starting new gardens and soil building cover crops & mulches composting