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Food for the Future Community garden project ends productive season with a feast

By Daniel Winters October 10, 2012

With the harvest picked, children and adult volunteers in the Food for the Future community garden project gathered at a local church to plan their next move —and enjoy a feast of garden-fresh produce. Some of the 10 new gardeners who had already emptied their plates were darting outside to play in the crisp fall

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Chairs in the Landscape?

By Albert Parsons July 30, 2012

When is a chair not a chair? When it is used as a plant stand or as a decorative object in the landscape. A chair is a good accent piece to incorporate, sometimes in a difficult area where hardly anything will grow, on a hardscape surface where some colour and interest are required or maybe

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Plant an old favourite

By Albert Parsons June 8, 2012

When I was just a boy growing up on the farm, I started a flower garden. Of course, this was before the era of designer plants and before bedding plants were available in the spring, at least in rural Saskatchewan! If you wanted to grow flowers you did it the old-fashioned way — you planted

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Sustainability through xeriscaping

By Red River Basin Commission May 3, 2012

Whether it’s called xeriscaping, water-smart gardening or environmentally friendly planting, this water-efficient concept can be built into your existing gardening plans, either all at once or on a year-by-year basis. Xeriscaping involves selection of annual and perennial plants, shrubs, trees and vines that perform well in our region and require minimal supplemental irrigation. Landscapes of

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Growing vegetables in the winter

By Liz Clayton April 15, 2012

For seven winters, Carol Ford and Chuck Waibel have been supplying weekly boxes of fresh cold-weather vegetables and baby greens to a 12-member CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Under the name “Garden Goddess,” they grow the food in their self-designed 16×22 low-energy northern greenhouse. Inside that deceptively small space is 3,520 cubic feet, with roughly 150

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Farm home grounds winner

By Albert Parsons February 15, 2012

A Minnedosa farm couple has won the Chapman Museum Shield from the Manitoba Good Roads Association for the best farm home grounds — District 4. Allan and Barb Dalrymple operate a farm just northeast of town. The RM of Minto nominated them for the award. When you travel north on Bison Drive, you come to

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Non-farm home grounds award

By Albert Parsons January 24, 2012

A Minnedosa, Manitoba gardener won the Fort Distributors Ltd. Shield for Best Country Non-Farm Home Grounds — District Four in the Manitoba Good Roads 2011 Home Grounds Competition. The award will be presented to Erna Stemmer at the association’s annual awards banquet in Brandon in April. Erna’s garden is located just south of town in

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Front Yard Farmers Sow Seeds Of Sustainability

By Shannon VanRaes September 29, 2011

Get a good job, start a family, move to a nice neighbourhood and rip up the front lawn it s not the traditional to-do list. But for front yard farmers such as Rhena and Doug Harold, who traded sod for veggies in front of their tidy bungalow last spring, growing food at home is a

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Gardening With Physical Limitations

June 30, 2011

Let’s face it, gardeners age, or, are afflicted with illnesses that can make gardening more difficult and less enjoyable. However, thanks to creative and inventive minds, there are now a wide variety of excellent tools and techniques to take some of the aches and pains out of gardening. Following are a few techniques for improving

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Gardening Has Many Benefits

By Julie Garden-Robinson May 26, 2011

When my daughter and I were getting ready to plant the garden, I thought about how a garden has much value on many levels. When children are involved with gardening, much learning can take place in this outdoor classroom. Giving children a small plot to care for provides an opportunity for them to take responsibility

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Food for the Future Community garden project ends productive season with a feast

Chairs in the Landscape?

Plant an old favourite

Sustainability through xeriscaping

Growing vegetables in the winter

Farm home grounds winner

Non-farm home grounds award

Front Yard Farmers Sow Seeds Of Sustainability

Gardening With Physical Limitations

Gardening Has Many Benefits

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