Permaculture
WE’VE MADE NO SECRET of our desire to gradually transition Green Apple into a landscaping company that designs and builds permaculture gardens. It’s perfectly possible for your yard to be beautiful and healthy and productive, all at the same time. But it’s going to take some time and effort to educate our client base until there is a demand for these services! So as part of these efforts to make permaculture principles more widely known, we interviewed Jane Hayes of www.GardenJane.com, one of the city’s foremost experts on urban agriculture, and a dear friend, at her home in downtown Toronto. If you’ve heard the term permaculture being batted around and wondered what it might mean, but been unclear as to what it actually is, then have a listen as Jane eloquently explains.
Continue reading about Garden Jane on Growing Food in Toronto
IN OUR PREVIOUS BLOG ENTRY, Backyard Farming, we explored how you can turn your little patch of land into an urban homestead. A tiny sliver of land in the Annex may not be able to feed a family of four, but backyard homesteading brings with it many educational, nutritional, and experiential benefits. And once you turn your own backyard into a fruit and vegetable garden, you may find yourself so consumed by it and caught up in the excitement that you start fantasizing about how you might take it to the next level. For the intermediate-level urban agriculturist, I would suggest Backyard Chickens.
IN THE 2009 SEASON, we successfully started a new ecological business venture, designing and building Living Roofs and Living Walls. In the 2010 season, we plan to introduce another new line of ecological services, growing gardens of edible and medicinal plants… even picking up the concept of small-scale animal husbandry. It’s simply not possible to completely revamp the entire product line in a single season. But we can give you a little preview of what we’re planning down the pipeline.
