A brisk walk through UBC Botanical

The quintessential winter salad garden!

Happy New Year to you all. The 11th of January was a nice bright day, the kind of day for a winter walk with a pace slightly quickened by the cold air. The Botanical Garden at UBC is one of Vancouver’s ideal spots for such a walk, with lots of [...]

Winter-hardy kales

On February 17th, I dropped by the UBC Botanical Garden’s Food Garden to drop of some seeds. Even in the low light of winter, kales are still producing, and they may be at their most beautiful stage of development.

The growing tip of Red Russian Kale:

Red in the centre, with pink veins lining large, flat, [...]