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I have a serious weakness for green beans. A steaming bowl of tender beans melting on a dollop of butter reminds me of my childhood.
I love the sweet smell and delicate taste of beans. I wish I could enjoy them year-round. Every year I find that their season goes by way too quickly. I never seem to be able to get my fix of them!
Here is a new post submitted by Nourish County Connections staff member, Leni Rautiainen.
One of the newest farmers' markets to sprout this season is in the award-winning farm community of Otonabee South Monaghan.
Nestled in the agricultural heartland of Peterborough County, the Keene Farmers' Market is running as a pilot project on long-weekend Fridays, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Lions Den, 1137 Heritage Line (just north of the four corners).
Nourish is currently working with Peterborough Community Garden Network to grow a new dream: establishing a Community Seed Bank. Creating a seed bank offers an opportunity to access seed and education while building community. Ultimately it enhances our region's biodiversity and grows our collective resilience.
Have you already heard about Empty Bowls? Empty Bowls is an event held in communities all over the world to raise awareness about hunger and food insecurity.
Can fruit trees become a symbol of generosity, aesthetics and warmth? That's a question that led a Los Angeles trio of artists and fruit tree enthusiasts to come together and form an art collective. According to them, fruit offers an avenue for re-imagining the world in which we live.
We live on a quiet street in the suburbs. The most beautiful feature of our front yard is the apple tree. In the month of May the tree resembles a gigantic puff ball of white flowers that is so astoundingly beautiful, we sit on the steps in the evening, to smell the fragrance, listen to the bees and drink in the perfection of nature.
Here is a post submitted by Laurel Atkinson, former staff member at Not Far From the Tree
The Nourish Project seeks to build access to healthy food, grow food skills and engage all of us in advocacy work focussing on poverty and food. Through this work we want to grow equity, community and health across our whole region.
Are you wanting to create a new garden bed this weekend? Here is Jules Carney's second installment in her writing about lasagna gardening:
Some books suggest that if you build a lasagna garden in the fall or early spring it can break down into workable soil by planting time, but in my experience it may take longer in this cool climate, so I either use fairly well-rotted compost or manure as a green layer, or cut right down through the cardboard and plant into the soil below.
Are you starting a new garden bed this year or sprucing up last year's? Two years ago I wanted to start a vegetable patch to expand on our family’s cottage garden, but there were two problems: my chosen plot was covered in three foot tall grass, and I hate seeing bare soil.