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2026

28.01.2026 Our Little Orchard Story
21.01.2026 Book Recommendation: White Light
14.01.2026 Pushing for Spring Production
07.01.2026 Looking For Your Suggestions and Comments

2025

17.12.2025 Beautiful Rhizosheaths
10.12.2025 All the Life in the Compost bin
03.12.2025 The Way the Weather Goes
16.10.2025 No-Till Soil Demo: Let Plants Do the Work
02.10.2025 No-Till Bed System Fall Prep 2025 Version
25.09.2025 Problems With Parsnips
13.09.2025 Exciting Cover Crop Results, Second Attempt
04.09.2025 State of the Garden, September 4th, 2025
20.08.2025 Soil Principles are Soil Principles: Doing a 180 on Greenhouse Management
14.08.2025 The Tomato Journey
31.07.2025 State of the Garden, July 31, 2025
24.07.2025 Thistle Be Gone: Allowing Nature to Transform
16.07.2025 Learn By Doing III
26.06.2025 Soil Science at the Farm
11.06.2025 One Month: Greenhouse Update
04.06.2025 Hot, Dry: Decision Making On the Fly
14.05.2025 Cover Crop Update: Planting Potatoes into our Trial
07.05.2025 Greenhouse Full + Crazy Weather
30.04.2025 New Greenhouse! Now What?
23.43.2025 Greenhouse Rain Delay
16.04.2025 New Greenhouse Coming Up
09.04.2025 Transplanting Patience
26.03.2025 2 for 2: Overwintering Honeybees
19.03.2025 Let’s Talk Weeds in No-Till Gardening
12.03.2025 Toxic by Default
05.03.2025 Managing Chaos: Creating a Schedule
26.02.2025 Book Recommendation: Finding the Mother Tree
12.02.2025 No Light Without Heat (fighting chemical industry)
05.02.2025 Grower Error III: Incomplete Nutrition
29.01.2025 Grower Success II: Cover Crops
22.01.2025 Grower Success (carrots)
15.01.2025 Grower Error II: Ignoring Canada Thistle
08.01.2025 Season Goals and Grower Error

2024

18.12.2024 Book Recommendation: A Sand County Almanac
11.12.2024 On Canada’s Lax Pesticide Oversight
04.12.2024 The World Happens On The Molecular
27.11.2024 Finality of Winter
13.11.2024 Lettuce In November
06.11.2024 Making Better Compost
30.10.2024 Our First Cover Crop: Fall Treatment
23.10.2024 Consolidating Space, Building New Strategies
16.10.2024 Building A 3-Season Greenhouse
09.10.2024 And Suddenly, It All Made Sense
02.10.2024 Science Will Win
11.09.2024 Our First Cover Crop: 60-Day Update
05.09.2024 The Final Fall Push
28.08.2024 Learn By Doing II
21.08.2024 Compost Squash Insights Into Soil Function
14.08.2024 A Sweet August: Extracting Our First Honey
07.08.2024 Our First Cover Crop: Update
31.07.2024 Lettuce Protector
24.07.2024 Everything Covered
17.07.2024 Swallows and Honey
10.07.2024 Under The Canopy
03.07.2024 Why Are New Generations Leaving Farming?
26.06.2024 Our First Cover Crop
19.06.2024 Re-Designing Our Zero-Till Bed System
12.06.2024 Learn By Doing
05.06.2024 Rain, Heat, Choices, Repeat
29.05.2024 My First Beehive
22.05.2024 The Beauty of Flight
15.05.2024 Build It And They Will Come
08.05.2024 Tree Swallows and Anticipation
01.05.2024 Farming Requires Empathy
24.04.2024 Wetlands Are Critical Agricultural Infrastructure
17.04.2024 Spring, Nature’s Best Teacher
10.04.2024 Garden Planning
03.04.2024 Why Don’t We Want To Be Close To Where Our Food Is Grown?
27.03.2024 Journal Your Garden
20.03.2024 To The Greenhouse!
13.03.2024 Seeds
06.03.2024 Brilliant Green
28.02.2024 Lots of Ground to Cover
21.02.2024 Intact Forests Within Cities
14.02.2024 Just Passing This On
07.02.2024 52 Blueberries
31.01.2024 All That Plants Know
24.01.2024 The Maddening Absurdity of Chemicals In Agriculture
17.01.2024 The Tale of Humble Tea and the Sea
10.01.2024 The Incredible Oceans
03.01.2024 The Fragility Of Water

2023

27.12.2023 Garden Futures: Designing With Nature
20.12.2023 Art Can Show Us The Diversity We’ve Lost
13.12.2023 Targeted Farming Advertisements
06.12.2023 Change Is Coming…Fast
29.11.2023 The #1 Resource In Farming And Gardening
22.11.2023 Minimum Crop Space
16.11.2023 Adding Cover Crops To Our No-Till System
08.11.2023 What We Did Before Informs The Future
01.11.2023 Looking At The Positives
25.10.2023 Shortfalls Of Our Zero Till
18.10.2023 Starting Over
11.10.2023 Shifting The Culture Of Food Systems
04.10.2023 Underwater Photosynthesis
27.09.2023 Growing Parsnips
20.09.2023 Life Finds A Way
13.09.2023 Life Without Sun
06.09.2023 Trials And Errors
30.08.2023 Nature’s Economic Paradox
23.08.2023 Bumblebees Love Oregano
16.08.2023 The Human Scale And Our Recent Past
09.08.2023 What Ghost Pipes Can Teach Us About “Nutrients”
02.08.2023 Dealing With Crop Failure
26.07.2023 “Too Much Nature”
19.07.2023 Something Fascinating: Red Algae
12.07.2023 Integrating Agriculture Back Into Communities
05.07.2023 Combining Crops: Mushrooms and Carrots
28.06.2023 Speaking At PechaKucha Winnipeg
21.06.2023 No-Mow For Monarch Butterflies
14.06.2023 Nature Comes Developed
07.06.2023 What Do We Know About Water?
31.05.2023 Staying Curious
24.05.2023 Leaf Mulch And The Water Cycle
17.05.2023 The Coyote And The Farmer
10.05.2023 Calculating Future Cost
03.05.2023 How Do We Make Decisions?
26.04.2023 The Word “Atmosphere”
19.04.2023 Soil Temperature Measurements I
12.04.2023 Mulch For Soil Protection
05.04.2023 Major Shifts
29.03.2023 Too Wet or Too Dry? A Comparison
22.03.2023 Capturing Carbon
15.03.2023 Lobbying For Unsustainable Forests
08.03.2023 Nature As Generational Knowledge
01.03.2023 What Are We Doing To Our Soil?
22.02.2023 Grandpa’s Smoked Yellow Tea
15.02.2023 Hello, World

About Graham

Graham is an ecologist-farmer from Canada working on educating about the wonders and beauty of the natural world, and how we can design biodiverse food production systems.

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