With such stressors as climatic shifts, economic instability, and now Covid-19, a world wide pandemic, people are looking for more ways than ever to augment their food supplies, control what’s in their food, contribute something worthy to their family unit, and even just partake in something calming to take a …
We’ve definitely had some ups and downs this winter and not just those temperatures! Just after Christmas we had a heater go out in one of our propagation houses which caused the loss of some seedlings and set back some of our older plants. Luckily we don’t have all our …
We haven’t had much time to keep up on our website since we’ve been busy not only through the regular gardening season, but our winter is getting much busier as well! A good problem to have but being a small operation it makes it difficult to spread our resources. I …
Perhaps you will purchase some new plants from Medieval Manor Gardens, or maybe you will begin wild harvesting some of your own in the area that you reside. Great! Now you might start to think, “So now what do I do with them?”. Though they have been around long before …
Hoppy belated Easter all! We’ve been so busy it’s been difficult to get this blog together but we’re making an effort, though be it a bit late. Last week my son and I explored some different dye methods to colour our Easter eggs and though our video has not been …
The first official day of spring is next week, though those of us that live in Alberta know true spring with reliably above freezing temperatures and hopefully the last of the winter season’s snow, may not actually arrive until May. Despite this gloomy thought there is reason to rekindle hope …
Today I have decided to talk about Paper Birch. It’s native to Alberta and what an amazing tree! It might be shorter lived than many other tree species (30-100 years or so!), but during its shorter existence it makes quite an impact. It is one of the first to recolonize …
Since we are still buried in snow here, I figured what better topic than fire starter using Horse Hoof Fungus. This fungus is readily available in the Rosenthal Woods even in the dead of winter and once you prepare it, it’s a great portable fire starter (known as Amadou) – …
As we approach spring many of the seeds we have been stratifying are now starting to sprout. What a feeling to see all that time and effort spent soaking, scarifying, chilling, covering etc. finally come to fruition! So far we have Ginkgo Biloba, Paper Birch, King’s Spear, Wintergreen, Beebalm, Catnip, …
Medieval Manor Gardens started as a tiny greenhouse down in Longview. Since then we have moved, met new people, and have learned more about who we are and what we wish to become. As we enter the winter of 2017 and many farms and greenhouses are “sleeping”, Medieval Manor is …
