Every person’s life contains an incredible story – one that deserves to be well told.
Lives & Legacy offers the opportunity for family and friends to share these stories in a unique and personal way.
I came late in life to pesto. Having grown up with only salt, pepper and occasional cinnamon in the spice rack, fresh pesto made with aromatic basil was a remote exotic world onto itself. But when I started gardening and planted out my first batch of herbs, a little pot of basil ignited a bit of a taste revolution. Now, I make fresh pesto every summer.
Rewilding is an interesting word. But it’s an even more interesting concept, and truly satisfying to see in action.
Let no one believe that the heart of any gardener isn’t ridden with dark envy and the capacity to act on it. Inside every gardener is a scavenger and thief, and it’s just a truth universally acknowledged that sometimes another garden has what you want.
And just like that, the first herbs of the garden are ready to be harvested.
The summer solstice is almost here. And if it were a thousand years ago or so, every farmer and gardener would be busy right now, preparing to observe the most important moment of their year.
It’s been the kind of spring that makes gardeners jittery — and prone to take chances.
I clearly remember that first garden. Everyone remembers their first garden.
As those recent photos of space from Artemis II so majestically show, the horizon is not fixed. It all depends on where you’re watching from. A hot new gardening trend is adopting this fresh point of view.
April is the cruelest month, say the poets. Gardeners think they may be right.
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is not the only Canadian travelling through space on Artemis II. The seeds from five different types of Canadian trees are travelling along with him.