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Join us at the garden for a 30-minute workshop on seed-saving on Saturday August 31 at 4:30pm. We will demonstrate, using plants we grow in the garden, how to save seeds from most of the crops you love. Seed-saving, if done properly, is a cheap way to get quality seeds for the next year's garden with just a little bit of extra planning and work. With more experience, you can start selecting seeds from particular plants to get crops that will suit your preferences. The workshop will be followed by the usual gardening tasks, namely watering and/or harvesting. Find the Facebook event here .

It's been a while since we posted anything about our crops. Hopefully your plants have been growing as well (or even better) than ours so far! First of all, we have been uploading photos of our gardens regularly since early July. A slideshow showing the growth of our crops through time can be found on the right-hand side of the blog ("Watch the garden grow!"). And we also finally built our own spiral garden! We had to find bricks first, so we ended up making it quite late and our herb seedlings didn't really appreciate, but now it's up and the herbs are not doing that bad. Have a look! Freshly made. Freshly planted. About a month later. ================================= We also started harvesting some of our crops and are waiting for others to fully ripen. The rattlesnake beans. The cherry tomatoes. The peas. The strawberry blite. The spaghetti squash (so many!!). The beets. The ground cherries. The pepper. The sunflowers. The tomatillos. The tomatoes. ===========...

Here's a nice table we adapted from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Quebec (MAPAQ) . Note that the seasonal availability may change depending on the growing season, the region, the specific market, the producers, etc. Also, corn, oats, rye, buckwheat, barley, spelt, kamut and soy DO grow in Quebec, contrarily to what some people think. SOBAYA noodles are a good example of a product made of locally-grown grains (made in Quebec from grains grown in Quebec).