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How to harvest, cure and store onions
If the tops of your storage onions are withering, toppling and yellowing, it is time to put up your winter supply. Done properly, curing can ensure you a good supply of onions through the winter...
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How to store your potatoes for the winter
Potatoes are a terrific way to store food energy, which goes a long way toward explaining their popularity as a home and commercial crop for the past few centuries. Properly cured potatoes can last...
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Plant your seeds for fall with these weird tips
Mother Nature is smiling upon your garden. This is not the time to pack it in and wait until next year. Unlike my neighbours, I never retire all my garden space. Sometime this weekend I will till and...
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Want low-carb veggie-packed lasagna? Meet zucchini
VANCOUVER – I started experimenting with vegetarian-ish lasagna while working as a staff cook for a Banff ski hill. My crew was a collection of surprisingly athletic Alberta head bangers, B.C. ski...
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Fall gardening: How to plant green onions
I would love to tell you that I Really Know My Onions, but I’m not yet skilled enough to live up to that ancient expression of gardener’s praise. It would be fair to say that I am Getting To Know My...
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Chilliwack sweet corn polenta
I’m not a big corn eater typically, but I do like polenta in all its various forms. Essentially corn porridge, the Italians call it polenta and eat it with saucy dishes like we might use mashed...
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Prepare your garden for winter
Your garden does not have an off switch. Although it is convenient to believe that your garden simply turns into a pumpkin when the warm weather ends, there is still a lot going on in your soil,...
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How to make great minestrone soup
The joke goes that in my rural neighbourhood the only time people lock their car doors is in September. Walk away from an unlocked car and you will come back to find a large zucchini inside. Only it’s...
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Only four days left in the Green Man 365-day challenge
I challenged my self to eat something that I grew myself every day for one year. With only four days to go until September 30 it looks like I am going to make it. We are celebrating today with matzo...
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One year of eating what I grow every day … done
One year ago today I began a challenge that I was admittedly ill-prepared to complete. I pledged to eat something that I grew every day for one year. In the garden, there wasn’t much. I had not thought...
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My crash course in subsistence gardening bears fruit
The challenge of eating what I grow 12 months of the year has been an education and a revelation The notion of living off the land is a romantic one, an idea that appeals to my usually well-concealed...
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