Notes from the Garden
Updating the Calendar: Lunar Transit Bar
This is Maxx, the resident print production specialist. Last summer, Toby and I ran a survey asking customers about their experiences with the calendar. One of the questions we asked was about the lunar transit bar, [...]
Updated Monthly Activity and Planting Lists
I spent a week in January 2023 holed up in a cabin deep in the snow near the St Lawrence Seaway, going through all the monthly planting information Caren had given us when we took over, [...]
The Lunar Herb Garden
It wasn't a surprise to me when people started writing, wanting advice on growing herbs. Herbalism and the moon just go together. And beside that, so many people can't afford the doctor, or feel that their [...]
NASA – Not Just for Astronauts Anymore
We did update all of the daily moon pictures, including adding new pictures for each eclipse type, as well as lightening the background around the moons to make it easier to read, and to write [...]
Fallow Days
Last year, we added eclipse information to the calendar and this year, we've incorporated the eclipses into our gardening advice. Over the last year, I had the time to consult different sources looking for any information [...]
The Stories of Our Seeds
Something that I first heard about from Rowen White, and which really informs my gardening now, is the generational relationship between plants and the people they nourish and who nourish them in turn. This relationship is [...]
Organic Methods in the Lunar Garden
There's a lot of talk lately (on podcasts, on social media, at conferences, on the labels of food...) about different kinds of agriculture. All-natural. Permaculture. Regenerative. It seems like every few years, there's a new word, [...]
Passive Watering
I haven't talked about this in connection with the calendar yet, but I'm physically disabled with several chronic conditions. Prior to becoming ill, I've always worked intensely physical jobs—farmhand, dog trainer, line cook, bicycle taxi, preschool [...]
2023 Spring Garden Write Up
Hi friends! It might look like I've been inactive online lately, but offline I feel like I've barely stopped moving for two months. It's been overall a slow spring here, but with occasional quick jumps in [...]
Flower Experiment 2023 Update #1
I took a whole bunch of seedling measurement last night, and even though it's barely a month in, I have some good data to share with you all. From my notes for Monday, April 3: Pincushion [...]
New Shipping Policies
We've been listening to you! This week we've improved our shipping software and options. What have we added? By popular request, there is now a First Class option to Canada--halving the shipping costs on a single [...]
Flower Experiments 2023
I'm excited to get going on some new moon-planting experiments this year, starting a little earlier and staying a little more organized. I'm not sure what outdoors experiments I might do over the summer—the weather's very [...]