We need your help! We’re looking for photos to use for a free kit of 8 food skills workshop that will be shared across NL! [...]
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We’re getting creative here coming up with fun gift ideas inspired by the 4 Ps of Local Food: planting, picking, preparing and preserving. Try one of these to light up the faces of the foodies on your gift list! (Cat picture taken prior to receiving awesome gift, seriously) [...] 
I know I’m not the first person to write about composting here on the RCR blog, but I figure you just can’t talk enough about turning your kitchen scraps into that lovely black gold. I’ve composted in one form or another for a long, long time now. The first compost I knew of was not in a bin or a black plastic Darth Vader container, it was just a heap, known imaginatively as the “compost pile.” That was in the 1980s. Composting was pretty low-tech back then. Take your scraps, throw them in the pile, and let nature do the [...] 
This month its all about…WORMS! That’s right, we need them and we love them and here at RCR we can’t get enough of our little wiggly friends. Worms make and improve soil so that we can enjoy all the 4Ps activities that we do. Here are four of our favourite resources about worms: [...] 
FSN Teleconference: Composting – From Organic Waste to WealthWhen: Tuesday, June 21 Keynote Speaker: Anne Madden, Education Coordinator, MUN Botanical Garden What better day to hold this teleconference? Join us on the first day of summer to learn about what every gardener, community garden, and eco-minded kitchen cook needs to have: Compost! [...] 
When you’re trying to garden organically, it can get kind of expensive buying all the compost you’ll need. You’re much better off making your own – you can divert a surprising amount from the landfill (which makes taking the garbage out a lot easier), and you’re turning waste in to gold! It’s not terribly difficult to get started, since we’re working with what nature does on its own! If you’ve got a yard, then you should definitely look at an outdoor compost pile. Either a premade composter, like the one in the photo, or something you build [...] Keynote Blogger: Anne Madden, Education Coordinator, Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador Botanical Garden Composting your yard and kitchen waste doesn’t have to be expensive or inconvenient; believe it or not, it’s not really that hard. A compost bin can be as simple as a chicken-wire enclosure or a hole dug in the ground. You can even enlist the help of red-wiggler worms to create compost year-round, in the comfort of your own home. And for those people who are hesitant to give it a try, it is important to keep in mind that composting is [...] |
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