Kate Martignier
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Mar- 2023 -8 MarchPlants
How to hand pollinate pumpkin flowers
This short post is part show and part tell, and it briefly covers: What male and female pumpkin flowers look…
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Feb- 2023 -8 FebruaryFood
Wise Use of Whole Foods
This is the next in a series about reducing your reliance on supermarkets and industrial food. In case you missed…
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Dec- 2022 -6 DecemberGeneral
Strategy #5 – What’s Shaping Your Grocery Shopping Habits?
This post is about how our social routines and our physical environments shape our grocery shopping habits and nudge us…
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Nov- 2022 -7 NovemberFood
Strategy 4 – to Help Parents Spend Less at the Supermarket
Reducing our supermarket reliance ​means we can spend less, live better, and look our grandchildren in the eye. This post…
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Oct- 2022 -17 OctoberFood
3 Strategies to help you spend less at the supermarket
I intend our grandchildren to grow up connected to their food supply and liberated from the consumer economy. When they…
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3 OctoberGeneral
New Beginnings in the Garden of You
Most of us pay far more attention to our outer lives than we do to our inner lives, taking care…
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Sep- 2022 -12 SeptemberGeneral
The Lies That Keep You Trapped in “Not Enough Time”
How often do you say, “I don’t have time”? What if there were ways you could take ownership of how…
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5 SeptemberPlants
Subtropical Spring in a RealFood Garden
In frost free areas we are blessed to be able to grow tropical food plants in the summer and better…
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Aug- 2022 -15 AugustPlants
Harvesting Ginger, Making Ginger Honey
This post shares lots of pics and a few tips on growing and harvesting ginger, and making ginger honey to…
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12 AugustGeneral
Aligning With the Energies of Early Spring (Southern Hemisphere)
Spring​ is the time to look at the “seeds” or intentions we’ve been gestating over winter, to choose those with…
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Jul- 2022 -1 JulyGeneral
Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
This post shares four things. The one that takes up the most space is about those two little words “food…
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Jun- 2022 -24 JuneGeneral
What the Waning Moon can Teach Us about Connection and Support
I’m writing this post as the current lunar cycle ebbs towards its ending. In a few days time the moon…
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