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Organic Gardens: Planting Memories for A Future Yet To Be

One recent evening, I turned to the shelf in our living room that houses back issues of The Countryman and picked one at random.

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Growing Up Organic

Youth Farm Apprenticeship Camp

"Small gardens can transform urban landscapes into vibrant and bountiful green spaces."

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WWOOF

WWOOF Hosts on Tour

WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farms, now known as World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms), is an international network of organic farms which are willing to exchange room and board with visitors interested in helping out on their farms.

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Weed Management

Weeds: Don't Shoot the Messenger (Not Until You Understand the Message)

All too often when farmers start talking weeds, a common first question is “How do I get rid of a bad case of…?”, when a more appropriate question is “I wonder why my field has a bad case of…?”.

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Fungi

We All Want Mycorrhizal Fungi – Don’t We?

AMF are amazing – In many ways, AMF are keystone species for both managed and natural systems. These invisible plant symbionts are responsible for so many ecosystem services: beyond increasing biomass of their hosts, AMF can reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and make crops more drought-tolerant.

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Rainwater Management

Water, soil and organic matter: a complex relationship

The amount of water that can be stored in a soil has a big impact on the efficiency of water capture and use. When the storage capacity is low, much of the rain that falls during extended periods of precipitation is lost. In contrast, a high water storage capacity, combined with the effective capture of rain and snowmelt over the fall, winter and spring can support a crop through an extended dry period.

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Potatoes

Vegetable production: Wild Planting

Growing potatoes in a wild garden.

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Native Plants

Using Native Plants vs. Aliens: Challenging Our Ethics

When deciding between native and non-native plants, we should be asking “Will this choice of alien species best support the environment?”

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Tricks of the Trade

Tricks of the Trade: Why Let Winter Stop You?

Hey, we’re Canadian, right? We’re not afraid of a little cold weather, especially here in the winter sunshine capital of Canada. Sure, lows in the minus 30s and even 40s are common, but that shouldn’t stop a truly intrepid gardener.

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Organic Crop Production

Tricks of the Trade: Tunnel Vision

Season extension is a fact of life for Maritime vegetable growers wanting to compete in the produce trade.

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Farm Management

Tricks of the trade: The Farm Journal - The Key to a Sane Seasonal Schedule

In the peak of the summer, when the sun is shining and the garden is lush, working outside should be enjoyable and soothing.

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Tricks of the Trade

Tricks of the Trade: Seeding Crops in the Market Garden

Of the six acres of vegetables we grow each year, roughly an acre and a half is direct seeded with push seeders. When you count that out—40 beds x 3 rows/bed x 90 m/row, you get almost 11 km (7 miles). That’s one long row to seed! And nobody wants to get on hands and knees to thin eleven kilometres of vegetabls.

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Seed Saving

Tricks of the Trade: Seed Saving Tips

Seed saving tips for heritage breeds and heirloom seeds.

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Current Issue

The Summer 2017 Issue is Now Available

The Summer 2017 Issue is all about the power of biology! Readers will learn about microorganisms in compost, predatory insects in blueberry fields, yeasts in beer and more - all ways in which living things help us every day!

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Quick Read

Dryland Farming: How it Works in California and Why it Makes Sense

Theguardian.com

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Reading Organic

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