Discover and re-discover Mexico’s cuisine, culture and history through the recipes, backyard stories and other interesting findings of an expatriate in Canada
In my garden, I have a young Stella (Prunus avium), a great variety of cherry tree for the small backyard: it grows slowly, does not need cross-pollination, and the beautiful blooms produce sweet dark fruit … click on title for more
Kohlrabi is one of my new-to-me crops this year. This vegetable is often confused for an actual cross between a cabbage and a turnip, but it is in fact a variety of the cabbage species Brassica oleracea, which includes many other common cultivars such as cabbage (savoy, green, etc.), cauliflower, collard greens, kale, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts … click on title for more
Climate change is now the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the conditions that make our world habitable, hence the decision to choose CLIMATE ACTION as the theme for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Although this year’s Earth Day events are running digitally due to covid19, the pandemic has given us a chance to see in real time that fewer motorized vehicles on the streets, less pollution from factories, and less waste from superfluous consumerism, can clear the air and considerably reduce garbage in a matter of weeks, when there is a global effort involved … click on title for more
After cleaning the brush from a couple of my garden beds, I found my green theme for this year's St. Patrick's Day … click on title for more
This is a fable of what not to do when choosing seed for planting, exemplified by my experience with purple corn last year … click on title for more
