May 22nd, 2011 | D.I.Y., Grow Your Own, clay, farm, Fukuoka, garden, grow your own, guerilla, guerrilla, plant, seed balls, spring, urban, Vancouver
It’s that time of year to seed bomb
the city! I found this basic recipe for seed balls on Heavy Petal, last year and it works great:
- 5 parts dry red clay*
- 3 parts dry organic compost
- 1 part seed**
- 1 – 2 parts water
We used a 16oz. plastic cup as a measure, which made enough for approximately 300 seedballs. After mixing together all the dry ingredients, we added enough water to form a mix that held together without crumbling but wasn’t so wet that it wouldn’t roll into balls. Pinching off small bits of the lovely mud, we rolled penny-sized balls and set them in trays. They will sit on my windowsill for three or four days until completely dry.
April 24th, 2011
Please join us May 1st at noon for the third annual Cedar Cottage Garden Spring Fling in Vancouver, BC! I am very excited and a little nervous because I am signed up to be a vendor for this event and will be selling my handmade aprons, to die for hazelnut truffles, homemade salves, soapnut laundry p ...
March 25th, 2011
Since today is Lady Day, and I was just reading this beautiful information about planting a garden that is in tune with your own personal DNA, I had to share this information with all of you....I just learned about Anastasia yesterday over at The Bovine in a very interesting article about the origin ...
March 11th, 2011
I have teamed up with Alex over at www.amoderatelife.com and April of 21st Century Housewife to host the Feed Me! Tweet Me! Follow Me Home Friday Friend Builder Linky. Scroll to the bottom of this page to link up your Real food lovin' blog so we can all get to know each other.
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March 13th, 2010
I have been wanting to go to Seedy Saturday for the past couple years, but somehow missed it each time. This year I was determined to get there, and so I rushed off after my last day of work. It was a sad morning as we got news of the earthquake in Chile and three of the ladies in the kitchen are fr ...
March 10th, 2010
This tasty snack can be made with any nut or seed or combination of. It makes a great crust as well.
1c curds (ground)
1c pumpkin seeds (soaked, toasted and ground)
1/2 c sunflower seeds (ST&G)
2T butter or other fat (coconut, tallow, goose)
1/2c parmesan
Method:
I don't have a food p ...
March 25th, 2009
It's that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when everyone is itching for rebirth. I am relatively new to seasons, a side effect of growing up a few degrees off of the equator, in Papua New Guinea. This is my third year of living in the cycles without a break and I am starting to understand the ...
March 18th, 2009
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It was a long cold winter this year and many plants were killed by the ton of snow Vancouver got. Luckily we have a spare room that does quite well as a greenhouse in the spring. I ordered some of my favorite plants from my favorite seed companies, in fact I even became a member of the Hudson ...
March 17th, 2009
I had a look through a ton of companies in Canada selling seeds online and chose out about ten that looked interesting and had websites that were workable on my computer. I mostly leaned towards West Coast seed companies, but there was one company from Ontario that is simply outstanding and couldn' ...
March 17th, 2009
Horizon Herbs is easily my favorite seed company. But that's simply because I love reading the seed catalog that they send out. It is jam packed with useful herbal information as well as some interesting anecdotes of adventures to find seeds. They have an incredibly extensive range of hard to find ...
the city! I found this basic recipe for seed balls on Heavy Petal, last year and it works great:
