Soil Searching Diaries
Plants, recipes, ideas, thoughts, musings, questions

City Farmer in Vancouver: an urban wonderland

I spent a lovely couple of hours on two occasions visiting the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden, AKA City Farmer, exploring this...

Composting on the inside

Apart from inmates, their families or staff, not many people see the inside of a prison and most would not wish to. Yet the...

Compost in Battery Park City and remembering 9/11

After reading about Battery Park City Authority's dog waste composting program, I was very interested to find out more. It was amazing to...

Regenerative ancient agriculture: the chimpanas of Xochimilcho, Mexico City

Mexico City was founded by the Aztecs in 1325 AD and was built on a vast lake and a series of wetlands. This ancient culture created an...

Composting in New York by bike

What a perfect introduction to community composting in New York City – a Compost Bike Tour organised by the Lower East Side Ecology...

Digging into the soil of Los Angeles

I wanted to get down and dirty in the City of Angels - beneath the glitz and glamour, the theme parks, the highways - deep down and...

Sweet potato

Sweet potatoes are well know for the delicious and healthy tuber but their stems and leaves are also a nutritious and tasty green...

A tea garden

Teas can be made from leaves, roots, flowers, fruits, stem or seeds. Whether they are iced or hot, relaxing, refreshing or medical they...

What to do with citrus skins

Making up a fresh glass of orange juice or after a recipe that calls for lemon, lime or any other citrus fruit you may be left with a...