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We’d like to give a special thanks to Assiniboine Credit Union’s Sustainable Community Grant for 2011. This grant helped Urban Eatin’ successfully handle its busiest summer yet, engaging with the community of Winnipeg to help establish more sustainable garden practices … Continue reading →

Learn how to turn household waste into perfect compost so that you can nourish your lawn, garden and the earth without having to buy soil or fertilizer ever again. You will learn: Composting basics (what should go in the bin … Continue reading →

“We’ve started this year by building two more raised garden beds and connecting with people who have been successful in coaxing food from urban yards. They are the beautiful and funny souls at Urban Eatin’ Gardeners’ Workers Coop and Patrick … Continue reading →

(from Canadian Gardening magazine) Blend your fruits, vegetables and herbs with the flowers in your garden to create a potager. Potage: French for soup. Potager: a garden where soup ingredients—and then some—are grown. Since medieval times, French villagers and country … Continue reading →