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Gardening in January?! Yes! Here’s an enjoyable way to start seeds in January in the comfort of your own home. It’s called winter sowing and this method of starting seeds provides the perfect growing environment for certain flowers and vegetables. It’s an easy way to start seeds because once planted, nature looks after the rest - no grow lights, heat mats or constant attention from you is needed. There is also the bonus of not needing to harden off plants in the spring before transplanting as the seedlings are already growing outside. The most common objection I hear from people...

When you get a text from your son at university that says...”Weird question... but will you take a picture of your hands, Dad’s too and send it to me?” It was easy to assume what this was about. As it turn out Ben’s floor mates in residence were roasting him about his farmer hands….they’d never seen farmer hands before and he said, “wait until you see my Mom and Dad’s hands!”  Our hands are not soft or manicured, but they tell a story, one of hard work and a dedication to the land. I’m proud of my working hands. I was self...

We have grown flowers in all settings - at my parents' greenhouse growing up, to overflowing containers of flowers and herbs on our balcony when we lived in Toronto, to curated perennial beds in our first home to our current 3 acres of cut flowers. We have grown a lot of flowers, and many different varieties; both annuals and perennials, and woody shrubs. We have our gold standards that we consistently grow each year along with some new to us species and varieties sprinkled in. With each growing season, there’s always a few that end up being our favourites. Each...

Honey in the kitchen.. sure, but honey in your medicine cabinet? Not a place you’d naturally think of honey being. When I heard Dr Angela Hunt talk about the wonders of honey and how we should all be incorporating it into our diets and medicine cabinets…. my ears perked up. “It is truly medicinal” she said, and “honey has incredible antibiotic and immune supporting properties”.   Natural Honey (raw unpasteurized) is widely accepted as food and medicine by all generations, traditions and civilizations, both ancient and modern. Honey has many proven health boosting properties; it’s an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial agent,...