Growing garlic is both easy and rewarding. Once you've cultivated and harvested your very own, all other garlic will be lackluster in comparison. It's a wonderful addition to any garden, whether large or small. Surprisingly, unlike many other members of the vegetable...
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How to Dry Flowers with Emerson Wild
You've procured your flowers, whether foraged, home-grown or locally sourced [to be linked]. And now it's time to dry. Drying flowers is a beautiful practise that dates back thousands of years. It has roots in practicality for things like medicine and perfumes, but...
Dried Flowers: Foraging, Growing and Sourcing
Drying flowers takes all the things we love about fresh flowers and lets us hang on to them for longer. It's a practice that aligns with a conscientious and slow ideology. It requires time, patience and an understanding that the process cannot be rushed. Whether it's...
Summer Container Gardening: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Few sights are more welcomed than an overflowing and full container garden at the height of the season. Teaming with life and colour, attracting pollinators large and small-alike. Enjoying a morning coffee, or an afternoon book and observing the buzz around your...
Companion Planting Herbs for Pest Control
On a previous installment of The Wild Blog, we introduced companion planting; with special focus on compatibility of common vegetable-garden favourites. While this introduction acts a guide for achieving the best growing conditions and therefore harvests, companion...
Growing Strawberries: A Summertime Favourite
Does anything quite christen the start of summer like fresh strawberries? Ingrained in the nostalgic seasons of our past, the love many of us share for strawberries extends past the fruit alone. Instead it also includes the memories of time spent picking, preparing,...