Tag: gardening
The Small Things
It seems to me that often it’s the small things in life that really give our life meaning and stability: a beloved pet, a kind word from a friend, a pair of old, but…
Market Vendors: The Sorichetti Homestead
Market vendors Lou and Tamara Sorichetti are brave souls. A week after moving into their farm on Solanum Way outside Pontypool from Ajax last summer, they purchased 14 goats. Theirs is a mixed herd…
Zucchini Festival Marks End of Summer Fun Drought
The fun drought is over! No more bored children withering at the end of the parental vine! The annual Millbrook Zucchini Festival marks the end of a particularly dry Millbrook summer, so mark Sept.…
Harvest Market Celebrations Sunday August 28
I can’t believe that there are only three more markets left this season. How can that be? I was only just anticipating the start of another great season of eating local, courtesy of the…
Rollies Brings Asian Inspired Flair to the Millbrook Market Offerings
With an extensive list of menu options, Rollies brings fresh, original dishes to the Millbrook Market, and the owners set their menu according to the weather conditions expected for market day. Last week, with…
Common Ground – The Drought of Early Summer
Here on the Ganaraska Savannah, the drought continues. We have had barely an hour of rain in the past month. Out on the brown and dry front lawn the domestic version of the African…
Misadventures in the Spring Garden
Is that supposed to be some sort of artistic statement? What is that? This from my neighbour looking at a miscellany of terra cotta pots grouped in one of my flower beds. It actually…
Silver Creek Creations Joins the Millbrook Farmers’ Market
Get ready to grow with the help of Jane and Peter Martell of Silver Creek Creations, who are joining the other vendors at our local monthly market. They established a nursery business on their…
“Our gardens let us dream about the future…” Anna Pavord
By Jill Williams I have a quotation from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind on my bulletin board in the kitchen that I have been glancing at all winter “O wind, if winter comes,…