Urban Agriculture: A New Trend in Planning

Food production, once banished to our rural countryside, has re-entered the urban landscape in the form of community gardens that have popped up in vacant lots, parks, and even rooftops.  This trend of growing your own food is part of a larger movement to localize food production – an alternative to [...]

Brandywine, Green Zebras, and German Queens

With spring on the horizon and the grass in my backyard finally being revealed from the 5 feet of snow that has covered it for the last 3 months, it’s time to start my heirloom tomatoes!  What are heirloom tomatoes you ask?  They are the beautiful, multi-colored, and generally expensive tomatoes sold in [...]

The Love of Dirt

The Love of Dirt

The love of dirt is among the earliest

of passions, as it is the latest.

Mudpies gratify one of our first and best

instincts.  So long as we are dirty,

we are pure.  Fondness for the ground

comes back to a man after he has run

the round of [...]

Tiny Farm

Craving a little dirt under your keyboard-bound fingernails?  Check out the Tiny Farm Blog…writings about microfarming in southern Ontario, Canada.