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Grow Food Calgary – Short Video!
A new short video about our latest Grow Food Calgary event. Just images but so well filmed. Thanks Chelsie Lees for all your work!
Where: CBC Calgary
When: June 22
What: Live Phone-In Show
Call in or email your questions live to Alberta@Noon on June 22 from 12:30PM to 1 PM so Donna can answer your questions in person on CBC radio all across Alberta. You can’t be heard if you don’t call in!
Something Pretty – And Pretty Good For Your
Have you heard about healing herbs but never known how or where to use them? Linda Miller, who gets paid to teach about these kinds of things as the College Director of the Western College of Homeopathic Medicine (WCHM.ca), was taking a class I was teaching with Grow Food Calgary (Growfoodcalgary.com) and saw me giving away calendula seed. When I told her my plan was to get people growing their own summer flowers to eventually make their own skin care potions she immediately offered to help.
Where: CBC Calgary
When: July28
What: Live Phone-In Show
Call in or email your questions live to Alberta@Noon on July 28 from 12:30PM to 1 PM so Donna can answer your questions in person on CBC radio all across Alberta. You can’t be heard if you don’t call in!
All Compost is not created equally: It’s Buyer Beware
I was asked by Calgary CBC’s investigative reporter Allison Dempster to contribute to a CBC interview this week and I suggested she think about a few tough questions before she completed her interview. I am passing those tough questions along to my readers so that if you need to buy compost this weekend you can be more informed.
Plant By The Light of the Moon
My grandma didn’t understand English but she understood the language of the moon and she knew the best time to grow food was when the moon was growing so she seeded between the new moon and the full moon. As the moon grows bigger, the gravitational pull makes tides stronger and seeds sprout faster. You might already have some early seeds planted and sprouting but if you don’t it is just about that time.
