Free Salad & Open Yard July 31 from 4.30-8pm

Come to a fun, informational evening at our urban farm and pick your salad for your dinner too!

Want to know:
why our backyard looks so different from most yards
what a food forest is
ways to support native pollinators
different hives to keep honeybees in
what a food forest is
what plants are growing in our yard
how to construct an herb spiral
what a swale is
how to make self-watering planters for less than $2
what a wicking bed is
what the most unique plant we have growing
why plant cover crops
how to make and maintain a worm composting bin
why we grow nearly all edible plants


If you feel inspired to make some changes to your landscaping to include edible plants, permaculture designer Ted Bahr, owner of Prairie Sage Permaculture will be available for questions or to set up a consultation with him.  

Bring your kids, friends, container or bag for salad, and something to take notes on.  


Hope to see you July 31 anytime between 4.30-8pm!

Our address: 4503-37 ST. SW, Calgary

New bed for 2012 planted with potatoes--determined we will get a better crop this year than last.  Here they are already coming up

 Thanks to the honey and bumblebees for helping to pollinate our crops this year.  Here is one of the honeybees.

Greenhouse emptied of seedlings but still have basil, tomatoes, peppers and okra in global buckets.

Planter in front of the greenhouse with sweet peas, nasturtium & lily bulb.  Remember that nasturtium flowers and leaves are edible and spicy.   

 Our cover crop this year is field peas.  The reason for cover crop is to reduce water loss due to evaporation, add biomass to the soil (like direct composting on the ground), and add nutrients to the soil.  Our peas will add nitrogen and give us tasty pea tendrils to add to salads.

Our other cover crop is white clover (sold as Eco Lawn at Sunnyside Greenhouse) will also add nitrogen to the soil, add stability to steep slopes, are great bee food, and slug food.  Hopefully they will get full on the plants that I was planning on cutting down before they get to the tomatoes and squash!

June garden growth

Who's ready for some wine??  In a few years we hope that these newly planted grapes will produce some tasty fruit.  

 Newly planted food forest with blueberry, honeyberry, gooseberry, evans & juliet cherry, strawberry, mint, & bulbs

We have over 40 tomato plants in various beds and global buckets, which are interplanted with lots of different edible plants to aid with slug and insect control.   A polyculture is a very resilient and more natural way of growing food on a large or small scale.

Check back to see the growth in the next month of rain, warm weather, and long summer days!