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Posted on: December 31, 2020 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Meet the Hosts!

  Happy New Year! Here is our first real podcast for “Regenerative Landscapes” where you can find out more about our hosts. Please like, share and download for more episodes in 2021! <iframe title=”Meet the hosts!” src=”https://www.podbean.com/media/player/sddfj-f64d20?from=usersite&vjs=1&skin=1&fonts=Helvetica&auto=0&download=1” height=”315″ width=”100%” style=”border: none;” scrolling=”no” data-name=”pb-iframe-player”></iframe> Meet the hosts! podbean.com

Posted on: December 24, 2020 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Our New Podcast “Regenerative Landscapes” Is Almost Here!

Myself and two of my friends and colleagues started this crazy idea of putting a podcast together featuring topics related to regenerative landscaping. You can find out more about what this means in our first episode (tentatively scheduled for a Dec. 30 launch right in time for New Year’s!), but …

Posted on: November 26, 2020 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

TransEd Valley Line LRT Contract

Medieval Manor Gardens is proud to be a part of the TransEd Valley Line LRT project. Multiple areas along the route had to be cleared for construction, before which time we collected native seed from along the river valley in order to propagate native species to revegetate the areas upon …

Posted on: March 29, 2020 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Growing Big In Small Spaces

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 …

Posted on: January 29, 2020 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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 …

Posted on: February 18, 2019 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

What’s Sprouting

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 …

Posted on: February 3, 2019 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Wild Recipes

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 …

Posted on: April 7, 2018 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Easter Eggs to Dye For!

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 …

Posted on: March 17, 2018 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

The First Green

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 …

Posted on: March 7, 2018 Posted by: admin Comments: 0

Everything Goes With PB (Paper Birch)!

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 …