Tips for Backyard Gardening


Grow your own

We’re big supporters of gardeners growing food in their backyard!

It’s an empowering thing for anyone to do PLUS it helps people understand the work that we do better.

In the spring, we sell vegetables transplants and vegetables seeds at the Dieppe Market and our annual Organic Plant Sale.

For gardening support, we’ve created blog posts like:

We’ll continue offering tips for backyard gardeners. Let us know if there are any gardening questions you’d like us to answer!

Some other online resources we recommend for backyard gardeners:

Where to buy Seeds for Gardeners

Our Top 5 Favourite books for Gardeners

  1. The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch
  2. The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson
  3. The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture our Land and Ourselves by Mary Reynolds
  4. Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners by Phil Nauta
  5. Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway