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Gardening 101: Caring for your Garden
Tending a garden is a perfect example of how one needs to focus on the journey, not just the destination. Gardening isn’t simply about the final harvest, it’s about all of the care, thought, and attention put into it throughout the course of the season. Getting out into your garden...
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Gardening 101: Preparing the Site
So you’ve chosen the ideal location for your garden and now you’re ready to start getting it ready to play host to those precious seeds and seedlings. You have a few options and thankfully Farmer Jo is here to talk you through them. Traditional Tillage Rototillers, start your engines! Tilling...
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Gardening 101: Choosing Plants For Your Garden
Choosing what to grow in your vegetable garden is at once a fun, and sometimes overwhelming, undertaking. When you look at all of the options available it is easy to get carried away, or overcome by choice! Learning which vegetables and varieties work best for both you and your garden...
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Gardening 101: Understanding Your Soil
Have you ever considered the texture of your soil? Do you know if it tends towards sandy, or is it heavy with clay? Jonathan recommends undertaking a simple soil texture test in order to understand the make up of your soil before choosing a final garden location. All you’ll need...
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Gardening 101: Sun + Soil + Water
Have you decided to take the plunge and start your first vegetable garden this spring? Or maybe you’ve been dabbling in veggie gardening for some time but now you’re looking to take it to the next level. Well done, this is going to be awesome! What an amazing way to...
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Gardening 101: Harvesting & Storing Your Veg Bounty
You’ve grown a garden full of amazing vegetables and your plants are looking evermore bountiful. It’s time to harvest, but now you’re not sure how to tell when everything is perfectly ripe and ready to pick. This is what you’ve been waiting for all season and you want to make...
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Farmer to Gardener Home Gardening Webinars
Growing food is our passion, and it’s a passion that we want to share in every way possible. This is why for the second year running we’re bringing you our Farmer to Gardener webinar series; an opportunity to share our veg growing knowledge with all of the enthusiastic home gardeners...
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Spring into Gardening: Tips for a Bountiful Harvest!
Spring is in full swing, and there’s no better time to get your hands dirty and start your garden! Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a budding green thumb, our Gardening 101 guide will set you on the path to a bountiful harvest. Here are three essential steps to ensure...
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Get Gardening with Farmer Jo: Prepping Your Garden for a Great Growing Season
Here at Ottawa Farm Fresh, first and foremost we grow soil.Soil is the foundation of everything we do, and everything we need as humans. Our priority is building healthy, vigorous soil that sustains both us as humans, and the teeming microbiome that lives its life under our feet.You know what’s...
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Are Your Garden Dreams Blooming?
Have you noticed the sun lingering above the horizon for a little bit longer each day? You aren’t imagining things, the darkest weeks of the year have officially ended and we will now gain about a minute of daylight each and every day! The winter is far from over, but...