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Hubba-hubbard!

Sophie specializes in seeds. Typically her aim in her garden plots, both at home and at the GRUBS community garden, is to grow a lot of stuff that will produce a lot of seeds. She could probably start a radish

Miranda September 8, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main

Babies

Fiona spends most of the night in her own bed these days, but about half the time she shows up at first light either in my bed or in the little nest on the floor beside my bed. This morning

Miranda July 27, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main

GRUBS jackpot

When we arrived at the GRUBS* garden today, this is what we saw tucked off in a nearby corner of the health centre property. The maintenance guys have been busy building something, and taking apart other things, and they used

Miranda July 21, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main, The Natural World

Out of the dirt

The really nice thing about the Gatto quote I used in my recent post is that it acts as a segué into any of a number of gardening-themed educational metaphors. This is part of the GRUBS garden. Along this fence

Miranda July 8, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main, Thinking about learning

Cherry picking

Noah is showing some interest in the camera. He notices colours especially, and several times in the past week has gone to grab the camera when he’s noticed some interesting colours outside. He liked the red and green together in

Miranda July 8, 2007February 3, 2016 Community, Gardening, Main

Solstice visitor

Drat, I thought we were done with these guys for the year. Usually once May rolls by, the bears have moved on to higher areas where the risk of human contact is lower. And I had hoped that with most

Miranda June 21, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main, Out on the property, The Natural World

Two tomatoes, chapter 2

Here are the two tomato plants I wrote about ten days ago. Scissors are for scale. Sophie’s plant has opened up a still bigger lead. In fact, mine doesn’t seem to have done anything at all since . Isn’t compost

Miranda June 20, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main

Wormy again

All the chicken poop I added to the compost a month and a half ago is doing amazing things. It’s about halfway finished composting already and we’ll have another 10 cu. ft. of compost by the middle of the summer

Miranda June 11, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main

Two tomato plants

The deer and the bears and the crows and ravens eat out of our compost pile. You’d think we’d try to do something about that. We did. For years we tried various containers and covers and bins and the like.

Miranda June 9, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Main

Of quack grass and garden magic

Here is what we’ve built in the garden. In the bottom corner of the nearest raised bed are Edward, Joe and Mimi, who are Noah’s tomato plants. Fiona’s bed, with the green sign, was constructed first, and is showing the

Miranda May 31, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Homeschooling, Living simply, Main

New beginnings in the garden

Since Fiona was born, the vegetable garden has really gone to weed. Really, really. I’ve half-heartedly thrown some seeds in a couple of springs, but most of my limited gardening time and energy has gone into the GRUBS garden. The

Miranda May 29, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Living simply, Main

Back to GRUB-bing

The Science Club kids (a.k.a. the homeschooled core of the GRUBS club) got busy planting for spring today. We planted five flats of seedlings with great gusto. Oddly enough Fiona was most interested in planting sweet peppers; she refuses to

Miranda March 21, 2007February 3, 2016 Gardening, Homeschooling, Living simply, Main, Science

Harvest Festival

The GRUBS held their 2nd annual Harvest Festival last weekend. It was a chance to celebrate another successful growing year, to have a feast, to have fun together and to thank the community at large for its support. We churned

Miranda October 9, 2006February 3, 2016 Gardening, Homeschooling, Living simply, Main, Science

First GRUBS salad

Here is Fiona enjoying her first garden salad of the year. It was just a perfect “Fiona-sized salad”, made up of 6 or 8 shoots of fresh chive, a few snippets of fresh parsley, the first harvest of garden cress,

Miranda May 21, 2006February 3, 2016 Gardening, Homeschooling, Living simply, Main, Science

A GRUBS Day

Today was a typical GRUBS meeting and I thought I’d write a little about how the sessions operate, since we’ve kind of evolved into an approach that works. Donna (the other main organizer) and I both had things to bring

Miranda July 4, 2005February 3, 2016 Gardening, Homeschooling, Main, Science
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