At FarmCity, our goal is to make an urban food garden that works for you!
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Featured Project
Boulevard Garden - Windsor Street
On a street where bikes pass all the time and neighbours chat - we built a series of raised beds on the front boulevard. Replacing weedy grass and depleted soil are rich garden beds awaiting planting.
See more of our urban garden projects.
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Recent Posts
- Edible Flowers
- A Gem of a Food Garden - Planning a Veggie Garden
- Specialty Care for Tomato Seedlings
- High Beds for the Sore-of-Back
- Scallions - Spring Planting
- The Miracle of a Sunny Day
- Valentine's Day Gifts for Gardeners
- New Gardening Resources
- Gardening Season Has Begun!
- New to the FarmCity Team: Gardening Expert Extraordinaire
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Urban Agriculture Links
- City Farmer News
This website is a collection of stories about City Farmer in Vancouver, Canada, and about urban farmers from around the world. The site is maintained by City Farmer executive director, Michael Levenston. - Community Gardens in Vancouver
Community gardens are a source of beauty and inspiration for all of us: models not just of the horticultural arts, but of community and cooperation, too. This site offers a list of our city's community gardens: take a tour! - The Land Conservancy
This is one of the best news stories going - collective action to save land for wildlife conservation, and/or for organic agriculture! Support them now! - Vegetables in the Front Yard
Blog by Janice Kreider, a retired librarian who goes for a lot of walks! She takes notes (and often pictures) of front yard food gardens: a good resource about how to design and expand your food garden. - Worm Farming!
Any of you who've used our services know that we're a little weird about worms here at FarmCity: worms = soil health; worms = compost health! For great information about worms and gardening, check out this site! - You Grow Girl
Gayla Trail's blog offers a lot of solid advice in a witty, upbeat mode. She's also the author of the books, You Grow Girl, and Grow Great Grub - and writes a gardening column for the Globe and Mail.
Books about Urban Gardening
Gayla Trail: Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces
From the Toronto-based author of You Grow Girl, now a new book! See the links above for her blog.Mary Palmer: ABCs of West Coast Gardening
A great quick-reference book for growing plants in our Vancouver climate, including a section - organized alphabetically by vegetable - on food plants. I particularly recommend it for beginners: it covers 95% of what you need to know, in simple, practical terms.Rose Marie Nichols McGee: McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers
Also - check if this is available locally at Banyen Books
These are a few of the Urban Gardening books that have caught my eye. You can buy them directly from Amazon (links above), or, if you are local to Vancouver, why not stop by your local books shop (my favourite is Banyen Books on West 4th) to browse their selection?
