Seriously, though, this time-lapse of worms making their way through scraps to create rich, nutrient-heavy compost is absolutely fascinating. The video shows redworms (eisenia fetida) going through 20

It is tomato season and you need to pay good attention to your tomato plants! What they need is timely pruning and topping. Here are 3 reasons to prune

Jean-Martin Fortier’s farm sells $140,000 of food on an acre and half. Now he wants to help others do the same… According to Jean-Martin Fortier, it isn’t a

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Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it soon spread to keeping chickens and bees and

Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It’s a lot of work,

Earthworms are something that all of us are familiar with. Most of us, at a young age, were introduced to the “slimy, gooey” things and learned to either

Protect and Enrich Your Soil with Cover Crops… Ask any seasoned gardener for their best soil improvement tip and many of them will say, “Use a cover crop

Ginger is the perfect herb to grow indoors. It’s very low-maintenance, loves partial sunlight, and you can use parts of it at a time, leaving the rest in

Did you ever notice that some things compost beautifully, while other things bog down your bins? I try to keep an eye out for the exceptionally good compost

Kiwifruit is so tasty; it’s intoxicating.  All my life, I’ve enjoyed the unique flavour and texture of kiwis but never stopped to wonder where they come from and

Growing up in a family of 13, Phillip Vowles learned to appreciate the effort it took to feed all his brothers and sisters. So when he started harvesting

Imagine how hard just one bee works in a single day. Bees tend to at least 2,000 flowers daily, with tiny wings beating 10,000 times per minute, carrying

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When Jami’s basil plants, trumpet vine, and green beans were being eaten alive by unseen bugs, she had to find an effective way to get rid of the

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