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Taking Care of the Soil - Important tips on how to keep your soil healthy and productive.

Growing Food in the Shade - Our list of herbs and veggies that you can grow in full or partial shade.

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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!
  • Vegetable Garden Experiment
    Will & Nina are brand new Vancouver gardeners, setting out into new territory: a beautiful little kitchen garden that we built for them just this April! Follow the progress of their garden - you'll see how easy it is!
  • 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

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?

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