Category: Living Green

Summer Bounty…Fresh Tomatoes !

Stephanie Kelley Sweet, fresh and juicy home grown tomatoes are among my very most favourite food. Our growing season is so brief, we only get to enjoy them for a short time each summer, and that time is now! Garden tomatoes are delicious just as they are, but last...

A Walk in the Park Inspires All!

Stephanie Kelley A Walk in the Park is part of the Community Conversations Initiative that has been attracting folks to come take a group stroll through Perth-Andover to imagine new uses for flood prone lands that are now sitting vacant. The walks take place on Wednesday evenings at 6:30...

The Gaia Project…A Visit to Perth-Andover

Stephanie Kelley The Gaia Project paid a visit to the schools in Perth-Andover on June 16th. Fascinated students flocked to the exhibit to explore the equipment and learn about alternative energy. The Gaia Project is on a mission to help youth make informed decisions about energy production, and project...

Community Conversations: All About Hops

Stephanie Kelley The Hops Presentation was part of the Community Conversations Initiative. Francine St Amand invited three guests who work with hops to share their knowledge and expertise at this workshop. We got entertaining and interesting information from Nick Southan, Joe Gee and Mitch Biggar. These guys are passionate...

Hops….A Multi-Purpose Plant!

Hops are not just for beer. They make a beautiful and hardy ornamental plant for your garden, and the plant has a long history of use as medicinal herb as well as a beer ingredient by many different cultures.   Hops are a vigorous, climbing perennial plant that is...

HOPS: Opportunity For An Aleing Economy?

By Francine St.Amand HOPS is one of those niche agricultural crops that is showing up more and more in NB’s rural landscape. When Joe Gee started up a vineyard on his farm in Carlingford last year, I realized that HOPS cultivation was something I wanted to learn more about....

P-A Community Garden Update

& The Amazing No-Dig No-Till Lasagna Garden Method The Perth-Andover Community Garden is now ready to go! It’s been tilled, and plots are marked out and several plots are still available and are free!   The Community Garden has a Facebook page for meeting notes and updates, and if...

Home-Grown Shiitake Mushrooms

Shiitake mushrooms can be grown at home by anyone, with just a little bit of effort and time. I attended the May 10 Shiitake Mushroom Growing Workshop at Falls Brook Centre to learn more and to get a little hands-on practice on just how it’s done.   David Boyle...

It’s Spring…Time to Plan Your Garden!

Stephanie Kelley Falls Brook Centre had a booth set up at the Women’s Day event where Emily Shapiro was demonstrating a really nifty method to recycle old newspaper into totally biodegradable seedling pots to start your garden seeds in.   She was using a wine bottle with a “punt”,...

Towards a Sound, Prosperous & Sustainable Economy for NB

Stephanie Kelley Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s the promise we are hearing from the provincial government and corporations who want to frack, clear cut and run a pipe line across our beautiful, lush and fertile province.   It sure sounds good, but are those jobs really there?   Back in...