LATEST FROM THE FARM — Gardening Tips & Tricks

If you are growing a home garden you are probably starting to bring in harvests, with summer vegetables starting to ripen thick and fast. When the garden is filled with the abundance of high summer it is easy to just sit back and enjoy the harvests, but believe it or not, there is still lots of time to plant seeds in the soil and keep harvesting garden fresh veggies well into the autum

We are now only nine weeks away from the May long weekend, which is the traditional outdoor planting weekend here in Ottawa. Even though it’s still too early to get gardening outside, there are lots of garden tasks that you can begin inside right now to set your garden up for great success this season!

Growing food is our passion, and it's a passion that we want to share in every way possible. This is why for the second year running we’re bringing you our Farmer to Gardener webinar series; an opportunity to share our veg growing knowledge with all of the enthusiastic home gardeners out there! Whether you have been growing food for years, or are just starting out, Farmer Jo will have tips and tricks to take your vegetable garden to the next level.

It’s hard to believe it, but even here in Ottawa we can be eating a variety of organic local greens right through the winter. While most of the salad that you’ll find in the grocery store has travelled in excess of 4000 kilometers to get to your plate, ours has travelled less than 50 meters.