Posted on November 18th, 2011 by Joel Russ
My gardening involvements at present consist of managing and harvesting lettuce and other leafies from our sun-heated greenhouse. On the mental-work side, there’s planning for next year’s planting, and also researching information about how Kootenay food gardeners can succeed in the face of challenges like solanaceous blights and clubroot! (These pursuits are ongoing, and I’ll [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Joel Russ
This year, when I think of what Earth Day represents, for some reason I think of two people who opened some understandings up for me. I say “for some reason” because I might as easily think about a lot of hikes, camping trips, or river or lake floats I’ve taken. Or think of hundreds of [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Joel Russ
Well this is going to be a blog space about gardening. Actually, a blog about gardening and my home region – the south-central Kootenay, a part of the Columbia-River-system drainages, and part of the Southern Selkirk Mountains. Gardeners think about things as they putter, and today I’ve spent a fair amount of time in my [...]
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