Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Mi'kmaq Medicines

Just picked up an excellent book at the Campbellton Centennial Library today. It was researched and written by Laurie Lacey and is the revised second edition.

Title: Mi'kmaq Medicines Remedies and Recollections. This book will help me identify wild plants that were used to treat various health conditions by the Mi'kmaq people. This will help me to identify the wild plants that may have been used here in Northern New Brunswick in the late 18th century.

Food Costs: Cauliflower

I like cauliflower but at prices like this will have to grow my own.


Monday, December 7, 2015

Vertical Gardening

If space is limited give some thought to growing up; fences, walls, trellis and many other methods enable the gardener with limited space to grow a wide variety of plants. Vertical gardening is also ideal for anyone who has diffiuclty kneeling down or bending over to work a garden bed. This Friday's article in the Campbellton Tribune explores this in greater detail.




Native Plants

There are two projects happening here in Campbellton that have me turning to the subject of native plants. When we are discussing native pl...