CBC TV video link here.

Beetle takes out lawns – perhaps a vegetable garden is the answer

By Theresa Lalonde
CBC News
April 8, 2011

CBC TV came to our Compost Garden to learn about some alternative ground covers to replace the lawn, which is so attractive to this destructive pest. City Farmer’s Bug Lady, Maria Keating, suggests some attractive plants including edibles.

See the video here.

The Ladner Community Garden Society plans to start a community garden at Kensington Park North this spring. Pictured are (left to right) Ian Dick, Don Bruchet, Kristin Couch and Mark MacDonald. Photograph by Chung Chow, Delta Optimist.

Project, with over 40 plots available to rent on seasonal basis, will be set up at Ladner’s Kensington Park North

By Sandor Gyarmati
The Delta Optimist
April 6, 2011

Excerpt:

“As we go forward and start seeing a lot more high density, a lot of people won’t have a back yard, so there’s going to be more need for community gardens for people who want to grow their own food,” Crouch said.

Crouch believes once the word spreads that a community garden is available, the 40-square-foot plots will be taken quickly.

She pointed to the lengthy wait lists in the City of Richmond that has eight city-owned community garden sites.

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Rohrbacher’s game has sold more than 350,000 copies worldwide

By Brett Oppegaard
The Columbian
January 24, 1997

Excerpt:

Goldendale, Washington- For the 35th morning in a row, farmer George Rohrbacher rose at 3 a.m., began bailing his hay fields by tractor headlights and wondered what he was going to do about his foundering farm. Row after row , he rode through the dark fields agonizing about the ultimatum his pregnant wife, Ann, recently had given him: she was going to quit her job at a local radio station and raise a family- farm or no farm.

They desperately wanted to keep their 1,500 acre farm near Goldendale, but two bad harvests out of three years had crippled the family savings accounts and left them with two choices: either sell the land or find a way to make some money, a lot of money.

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An E-book

By Sharon and Andrew Cooper
Queensland, Australia
3/31/2011

“The award winning horticulturists Sharon and Andrew Cooper from Queensland, Australia go public with their top secrets on how to easily grow a vegetable garden that provides maximum nutrition at a minimum price. Their newly released book, Our Vegetable Garden Secrets, is a simple, practical and complete source of information that provides all you need to know about preparing soil, caring for plants, protecting from disease and pests, and as a result, growing vegetables that are 40-60% more nutritious than their supermarket alternative.

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Kitchen Gardeners International asks new group of high-profile people for donations

“Two years ago, gardeners helped inspire the First Family to plant a garden at the White House. This year, we’re asking to a new group of high-profile people to support the garden cause.”

Q: What is this all about?

The Fork It Over Campaign seeks to strengthen the global homegrown movement by 1) raising awareness about food gardens and their many social and environmental benefits and 2) raising funds that will allow us to help more people around the world to grow their own healthy food.

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