Grow/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Shaded vegetable garden success
Food production

Growing vegetables in the shade

...growthem, many vegetables will actually appreciate a little respite from the sun during the hottest months of thegrowing season. If you live in an apartment or want togrowfood & vegetables inside, also find out how here . As a general guideline, plants that aregrown for their leaves or stems will do better in pa...

Edible Perennials
Landscaping

A guide to growing edible perennials.

...growing mostly on the edge of wetlands. Until that is Bob Bors of the University of Saskatchewan got involved - and he's been very selective of varieties from their native habitat of northern Japan and Russia. The plants are beinggrown in most provinces now, with more than two million sold, " which is pretty big for...

Tips for Urban Gardening and Gardening in Small Spaces
Food production

Grow food at home: 8 great tips for growing food in small spaces

...grown vegetables and fruit , especially those that come from our own soil. For those of you who would like togrowfood at home but have limited space, don't despair. Your dream of home-grown food is still within reach. You may be wondering how togrowvegetables if you have little to no space with full sun exposure,...

CaGBC, LEED green building trends
LEED Homes

New report shows Canadian green building market growing steadily with owners seeing strong benefits from building green.

...growth over the next three years, with surveyed Canadian firms expecting togrowtheir green practices from one third in 2014, to one half by 2017. These findings are part of a new report prepared by McGraw Hill Construction and commissioned by the Canada Green Building Council. The report, titled Canada Green Building...

Indoor hydroponic vegetable garden
Food production

Growing food indoors

...grown vegetables can help lighten our footprint on the earth, but the environmental benefits of this system go beyond the elimination of fuel used to transport our consumables.Growing food hydroponically, given the absence of soil, allows us togrowmore food in smaller spaces. For example, without soil a healthy ch...

Growing Food Indoors, Vegetables for Homes & Apartments
Food production

食物和绿色蔬菜可以很容易地在室内种植-这里有方法!

...grown in pots inside make beautiful, interesting and useful houseplants Now you know more aboutgrowing sprouts and microgreens at home to suppliment our diet, here are some more pages aboutgrowing food at home indoors or in backyards . Vegetables thatgrowwell in the shadeGrowing food at hom...

Keyhole Garden
Landscaping

The Keyhole Garden: An Introduction

...growing season. Mix a keyhole garden with vegetables thatgrowin the shade , and you've a winning combination for urban gardens! Here are your basic considerations for building a keyhole garden, broken down to four fairly simple steps. 1.) Site: Once you have chosen an area large enough to house an 8 - 10 foot dia...

7 Principles of a super abundant, solar, year round greenhouse
Greenhouses and Sunrooms / Solariums

7 key principles for an abundant greenhouse

...growyear-round. How much insulation is right? It depends on your climate and what you'd like togrow. Ask us for some suggestions or a climate analysis of your greenhouse. 3.) Insulate your foundation. Heat can escape through the floor just as it does through the walls and roof. For that reason, it's extremely imp...

The Pros & Cons of Lasagna Gardening for Growing Food
Food production

Lasagna Gardening: the pros & cons of a lasagna garden

...growing food at home in the following pages: How to create a Lasgna Garden - Step by Step Guide Vegetables thatgrowwell in the shadeGrowing food at home in small spaces - 7 top tips Urban farming - a guide togrowing edible perennials in your yard How to build a backyard greenhouse in c...

Urban Farm Unit - Aquaponics, Hydroponics, Pisciculture and Urban Farming
Food production

Growing food in urban cores with the Urban Farm Unit

...grows, so does our need to re-imagine the way we feed ourselves, our families and our communities. If we're lucky enough to have a little space at home, especially if we have a garden, they can produce abundent vegetables and fruits in an urban setting . There are some more ingenious solutions togrowing food in ur...

Urban farming
Landscaping

Urban Farming turns beautiful gardens into a grocery store!

...growing food in places with less than ideal conditions. Here are some suggestions for maximizing your harvest in those spots. You cangrow在狭小的食物空间里,还能找出哪些是最好的蔬菜来growin the shade - it simply takes choosing the right varieties and using the best techniques for succ...