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My SFG diary – Week 2

My SFG diary – Week 2

Posted 08 June 2010 | By James | Categories: Environment, Gardening, Health, My SFG Diary, doodad wrote it | No Comments

If there’s one thing planting vegetables from seed will teach you, it’s patience. Beans, peas and cucumbers are great if you like instant gratification. And I’ve almost got a full pepper on my pinot noir pepper transplant. But the carrots, rutabagas and and lettuce have been teasing me for two weeks. Here are a [...]

wordless wednesday: My new Square foot garden

wordless wednesday: My new Square foot garden

Posted 26 May 2010 | By James | Categories: Environment, Health, wordless wednesday | 7 Comments

I finally planted my Square Foot Garden this week and will keep you posted on my progress with a new page. It’s mostly vegetables planted from seed, although yesterday I bought pepper, tomato and strawberry plants to get a head start.

In honour of World Water Day

Posted 23 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Environment, Health, doodad video | No Comments

I’m a day late. Yesterday was World Water Day.
This video was just released as part of the Story of Stuff series. Water from my hometown — Guelph — is being sold to Nestle for next to nothing and shipped all over the world for a hefty profit. It’s time we all stop the madness go [...]

Radical homemaking

Posted 18 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Career, Environment, Housework, Time management, doodad wrote it | 2 Comments

When my wife returned from a recent scrapbooking weekend with the ladies, she told me there’d been a fair bit of curiosity about what it is I actually do. She didn’t tell me much more than that — what happens at scrapbooking apparently stays at scrapbooking.
Well, there’s not really much mystery to it. I do [...]

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