Simple recipe for seed balls. This great recipe will help prevent the birds from eating the seeds while at the same time providing some nourishment to help get them started.
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Cedar Cottage Community Garden’s 2011 Spring Fling is happening on May 1st between noon and 3pm. Join us and enjoy live entertainment, children’s activities and more. I'm gonna be there selling some of my famous handmade items such as hazelnut truffles, aprons, yarrow stalks and more.
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“Every seed you plant contains within itself an enormous amount of information about the Universe....Before planting, put into your mouth one or more little seeds, hold them in your mouth, under the tongue, for at least nine minutes." -Anastasia
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A look at food sovereignty and how small scale farming is so important for our world. Industrial agriculture is destroying our world.
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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 [...]
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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 processor, but I [...]
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From the archives, when we first moved to Vancouver....Lady Day, the 25th of March, was a very ancient celebration of the Great Rite, or the holy marriage. On Lady Day, Innana is resurrected. Traditionally, rituals re-inacted this rebirth every year.
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Next 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 [...]
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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’t be passed by. [...]
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A small collection of some of my favorite seed saving companies in the US. They all collect heirloom varieties many of which are becoming more scarce because of the monoculture and terminator seeds promoted by Monsanto.
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