October 1st, 2013 | Events, Gardens, Photo Galleries, BC, Cedar cottage, chow down, community garden, dinner, equinox, garden, skytrain, urban, Vancouver
On the evening of the Fall Equinox 2013 we joined local urban gardeners from Cedar Cottage Community Garden in a delightful meal in the middle of the lovely garden under the skytrain. It was a rainy night but the sun did show itself just long enough for me to get some beautiful photos of the kitchen tent and the tasty food that was being prepared on the grill that had been set up there.
Much of the vegetables, herbs and fruits used in the meal were harvested from the overflowing green plots around us. On the tables were asian pears from the food forest.
Chef Mike Preston of La Quercia created a raft of dishes, and we were particularly pleased as most of the meal was fine for us on our grain-free diet (GAPS/SCD).
The evening kicked off with delicious Sorrel Soup served in mason jars. As folks began to take their seats platters of Heirloom Tomato Salad with Bruschetta were laid out on the tables. The platters included carmelized onions and a light balsamic dressing. A chorus of moans of delight rose from everyone at the table as the tomatoes were sampled.
July 19th, 2012
This is a project I have been working on for a couple years now. After few failed guerrilla garden attempts at various places around the city I found a good spot for a garden. The first year I put in a couple beds, the second year I put in three more and used them as experimental plots to test out a ...
July 17th, 2012
The technique for creating seed balls was developed by Japanese natural farming pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka. Seed balls or seed bombs are very easy to make. The secret ingredient is clay, this holds the seeds and fertilizer together and makes it difficult for birds to eat the seeds before they get ...
July 4th, 2012
Peter Finch of Cedar Cottage Community Garden sent us this beautiful guest post to help us get to know our busy and friendly co-species the bees. If we didn't have bees we wouldn't have us it's that simple. Peter Finch is one of the founders of the lovely forest garden under the skytrain and is ...
July 4th, 2012
Cedar Cottage Community Garden is a lovely community and still has garden plots available! I can't find their website at the moment but I will put a link in as soon as I figure it out. Check out this delightful article by Peter Finch one of the founders of the food forest in the garden in which he d ...
June 16th, 2012
by TheGuerrillaGardener Whilst on honeymoon Richard and Lyla Reynolds are inspired by the potty streets of Beirut to do a little guerrilla gardening. It also includes a flash back to Libya. Check out http://www.guerrillagardening.org and http://www.pimpyourpavement.com ...
March 26th, 2012
San Francisco is once again spearheading the guerrilla cultural movement with the latest in guerrilla gardening -- Guerrilla Grafting in which trees around the city are grafted with delicious, freely available fruits. The following article is from www.civileats.com City Fruit: Guerrilla Graft ...
July 27th, 2011
Little Mikko and Amaia come for a visit and help me pick the diakons from my boulevard garden. According to Masanobu Fukuoka who wrote One Straw Revolution, diakons are a good plant to help you dig up hard, stony soil. I dug up the area outside our apartment this year and decided to try an ex ...
May 22nd, 2011
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 approx ...
May 13th, 2011
I recently came across this delicious and healing recipe for dandelion syrup. I have made dandelion wine before so I know how many dandelions you need to pick for such a recipe. It is best to have a lovely field with no dogs or pesticides anywhere near it. It is a lovely way to spend a spring day, p ...
