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link to Blending Beauty with Purpose: How I Made Peace Between My Favourite Plants and My Native Garden

Blending Beauty with Purpose: How I Made Peace Between My Favourite Plants and My Native Garden

This is now our third summer living in our home in the woods, and if the trees could talk, I’m pretty sure they’d say, “Look at them go … OMG again, with the shovel!” Next garden ......

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link to Starting The Vegetable Garden – Part 2 – Growing

Starting The Vegetable Garden – Part 2 – Growing

DISCLAIMER: As with my last article in this series - in this article, you will read about the things I have done as I learn about gardening for food. This article is in no way telling you that these...

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link to Starting the Vegetable Garden – Part 1 – The Raised Beds

Starting the Vegetable Garden – Part 1 – The Raised Beds

DISCLAIMER: In this article, you will read about the things I have done as I learn about gardening for food. This article is in no way telling you that these are the right/correct/only way to start...

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link to 7 Totally Selfish Reasons to Choose Native Plants for Your Gardens

7 Totally Selfish Reasons to Choose Native Plants for Your Gardens

Grab a cup (or glass) of your favorite beverage, and let's delve into what I’ve learned so far about why it's incredibly important and wildly selfish to embrace landscaping with locally native...

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link to Broadcast Sowing and Frost Seeding Native Plant Seeds

Broadcast Sowing and Frost Seeding Native Plant Seeds

Exploring the differences, benefits and drawbacks of Broadcast Sowing and Frost Seeding for Native plants.

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link to Winter Sowing Native Plant Seeds

Winter Sowing Native Plant Seeds

Winter sowing is a seed starting method where you sow your seeds in a sheltered container, and set them outside for the winter, here I'll show you how it's done.

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Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we've built our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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