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Annual seedy Saturday

Mar 3 2012 - 10:00am
Mar 3 2012 - 3:00pm

Location

Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre
105 Greenview Av
Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 21' 43.4736" N, 75° 47' 47.0832" W

Come celebrate local food, farming, and gardening at the annual Seedy Saturday in Ottawa. It's free and all are welcome!


Join in the annual seed exchange and sale, featuring an organic mini-market, garden talks, and workshops, a swap table, and organic snacks. Workshop seating is limited, and here's the line-up:

10:30- Gardening on Small Plots: tips, tricks, and recommended vegetables - this workshop will be hosted by USC Canada's Genevieve Grossenbacher, who also helps run the nearby Our Little Farm with her husband.

11:30 - Garlic Pests: A look at how to control nematodes, hosted by Paul Pospisil

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Redeye

Organic outperforms conventional farming on all counts

February 1, 2012
| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

12:36 minutes (11.53 MB)

Seedy Sunday -- North York

Mar 27 2011 - 1:00pm
Mar 27 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

Lawrence Heights Community Centre
5 Replin Road (Allen Rd & Lawrence Ave. West)
Toronto, ON M6A
Canada
43° 43' 2.9064" N, 79° 26' 34.0584" W

Are you imagining Spring? Thinking about planting seeds and getting your hands in the dirt?

Seedy Sunday will help your gardening dreams come true!  Throughout the afternoon, you can:

~ Donate seeds and participate in the community seed exchange. ~Buy your spring seeds from some of Ontario’s finest vendors (with a focus on organic, heirloom, native and local) ~ Enjoy free garden-related workshops & children’s activities. ~Purchase yummy snacks and network with other gardeners. ~

Visit us on Facebook by typing North York Seedy Sunday or contact melissa.benner@gmail.com

 

Redeye

Urban homesteading in Pasadena

November 27, 2009
| Laura Lamb reviews Homegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot.

11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
Columnists

Eliminating world hunger

"In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger," says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, "For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry."

The WFP launched the Billion for a Billion campaign this week, urging the 1 billion people who use the Internet to help the billion who are hungry. But if you think that hunger is far from our shores, here is some food for thought ... and action: The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report Monday stating that in 2008 one in six households in the U.S. was "food insecure," the highest number since the figures were first gathered in 1995.

Columnists

The surge in small-scale

There is no doubt that the seasons have changed. The last few days have seen frost on the ground in my garden. The tomatoes, squash, beans and cucumbers are all gone, my 15-foot high sunflowers have pooped out, and the chili peppers hang on in the hot house, soon to succumb to cooler days with limited sunshine. The last basil was picked this week, and what is left is the chard which will produce outside until a hard frost gets it, and inside all winter long. If the autumn is not too cold and dark a new crop of snow peas will come up inside, a welcome addition to winter meals.

Feast Of Fields Fundraiser

Sep 13 2009 - 1:00pm
Sep 13 2009 - 5:00pm

Location

UBC Farm
6182 South Campus Road
Vancouver, BC
Canada
Phone: 604 822-5092
49° 15' 4.3776" N, 123° 14' 15.4896" W

FarmFolk/CityFolk presents an annual fundraiser picnic featuring local wines and the best from farmers, food producers, and chefs from across the province.

Grass Roots Organics EcoFarm

rabble.ca's Wayne MacPhail interviews Sean McGivern, the owner of the Grass ROots Organics EcoFarm in Desboro, Ontario. Sean runs an organic farm and raises heritage grains and livestock. He's responsible for sparking a revival of eco-friendly farming in the Grey and Bruce counties in Ontario.

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