Withywindle Urban Homestead

We spent a few weekends in July finally building the flower stand we intended to make all summer! It's been open for business for a couple weeks now and you all have been clearing us out!

The flower stand is restocked with $15 bouquets and $10 bouquets! 6700 block Grant Rd W!

We're all set up for our first Christmas market!

The garden is a magical place in the evening with the wind whipping up, the fairy lights on, and the scent of green growth everywhere ✨✨

That's a wrap on raised bed building for this year. Here's the before and afters of our main veggie garden! April 2022 and April 2023 🌱🌱🌱

The seedlings are growing well and the greenhouse is heating up! ... Heating up TOO much now that we've sealed up the gaps that kept it too cold 🤦🏻‍♀️

Time for some temp controlled fans and vents!

Yikes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64729317

Some sound advice to take us into the new year 😇

Our figs are ripe a full five weeks later than last year. Our tomatoes are still green so time to start prepping for boatloads of green, unripe salsa.

But even with the spring that lasted until July, there is bounty and beauty in the first year garden! Beets and carrots are coming out, zucchini and cukes are still going! We're excited for the fall crops going in and the winter of making and crafting and writing coming up!

Well, how cool is this?!?! Battling food insecurity is where it is at!

Selling backyard produce could be available to all gardeners in HRM | SaltWire Halifax considers changing bylaws to allow market gardens across the municipality to battle food insecurity