Grass Root Gardens

02/19/2013

Awesome gigantic flower sculpture Festival in Netherlands. The parade consists of around 20 different floats made from natural flowers, specifically dahlias.

http://www.thephotomag.com/2012/11/gigantic-flower-sculpture-festival-in_17.html

02/13/2013

This awesome urn will turn you into a tree after you die. Geez if you forget to water me does it mean I've died twice?

http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/this-awesome-urn-will-turn-you-into-a-tree-after-you-die

You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with…

02/13/2013

Barbara Walters could gift this to her guests after asking what kind of tree they are!

http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/this-awesome-urn-will-turn-you-into-a-tree-after-you-die

02/12/2013

Speaking of Blooms-CANADA BLOOMS Bus Trip Tickets on sale now. Windsor to Toronto-March23/13. See flyer for more details. Promises bouquets of fun, flowers and friendships.

02/12/2013

Back in the saddle again. Trip to Cuba was just what I needed. Welcomed home to blooming snowdrops! Ola!

01/06/2013

Snoooooow train.

http://youtu.be/oaqVQ04kryA

For this video I mounted the camera to the engine itself to get a bird's eye view of the plow working. I did this as a result of requests from those who view...

12/25/2012

**~ Merry Christmas Everyone ~* *

12/09/2012

Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis - one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades. Nobody listened and now concerned groups have filed a class action suit against FDA.

http://www.onearth.org/article/you-want-superbugs-with-that

Stuart Levy once kept a flock of chickens on a farm in the rolling countryside west of Boston. No ordinary farmer, Levy is a professor of molecular biology and microbiology and of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. This was decades ago, and his chickens were taking part in a never-befo...

12/08/2012

Trees have been around for much longer than humanity. All the oil and coal we are burning away at a frantic rate was formed from the decomposed remain of ancient forests, millions of years old, which is why they’re called fossil fuels!

http://permaculturenews.org/2011/10/21/why-food-forests/

We’re all familiar with the concept of forests — lush, abundant expanses of pristine wilderness, teeming with life, a richness of biodiversity and awe-inspiring to behold. Trees and plants intertwined, filling every possible space, the very well-spring of life itself!

12/03/2012

I'm opening GRG this Saturday for my customers who like to plant gardens this time of year. XMAS GIFT CERTIFICATES available for purchase too. See you there or call me to order.

12/03/2012

2012 plants put to bed. 2013 plants and seeds ordered. Christmas, Cuba, then back to the greenhouse. HO HO HO!

11/03/2012

Interesting farming trends, cattle and pig on decline. http://www.practicalfarmersontario.ca/pfo---farming-trends.html

The 2011 Census of Agriculture shows the Cattle ranching and farming group with the largest rate of decline between 2006 and 2011 with a 7% decrease (4848 less individual operators) reporting in...