Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I am so jealous, you live  in permaculture central. Oh just search permaculture.org and you'll get there.  There are always courses to  become acquainted with the concepts of really closing the loops within our world.  I live next to a lake in central Alberta Canada.  High summer still here while you are depths of winter.  So a question if you don't mind. ..... if you could have planted something in mid summer to harvest in mid winter what would it have been???  I  get minus forty degrees in the winter on a regular basis, so please don't tell me oranges, I am so jealous of your climate, where you are what ?tropical, ?subtropical and I am boreal forest, sometimes called the taiga, or the snow forest on the cusp of prairies.  So my options are sometimes much narrower than others with more frost free days. 
I am told by permaculturists, that I am a permaculturist what ever that may be.  All I know is this.  I eat local first, I want to support my local community, the benefit is that my neighbors make a little extra cash, I have been invited to some great farms where animals are treated well, plants are grown responsibly with an appreciation for the land.   I live on a 50x150 foot small city lot and so I grow organic, but I would not say that I am totally organic only because of urban exposure.  I once about five years ago arrived home to find the neighbor doing me a favor and apply dandelion killer to my front yard....
I try to know my farmers.  I make darn sure I  know where my seed comes from, and I save most.   I an trying to live lighter and lighter as I get along this path through the gardens that is my life.  I am constantly refining, changing and have on occasion moved entire gardens so that they got more light and now....so looking back on your autumn. What would you have planted one more time during your late January to harvest in June.
cheers
Bina

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From: "ashley.online@yahoo.com.au" <ashley.online@yahoo.com.au>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 7:59:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Newbie


 

Hi there Bina at the lake - I am Ashby Ridge on the Clarence and I love
your info but would like to know where in the world are you ? I am in the
Northern Rivers area of NSW in Australia. We are prensently building a new
home and intend setting up our organic veggie garden and fruit orchard as we
did when we lived on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Would you like
to correspond ?
I hope to grow raspberries, gooseberries and bananas as well as pineapples.
We will be stocking the freezer with excess next year or the year after as
we still have to set up the areas.
Do you have a lot of knowledge and experience with growing organics?
Regards

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From: binaatthelake
Date: 09-August-2013 00:31:20
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Newbie

Hi hey and welcome, in from picking, weeding watering and the never ending
cycle that is summer. Bundles of herbs drying and baskets of saskatoon
berries to freeze, yellow raspberries to throw into the fridge need just
one more pick tomorrow to make wine, raspberries need to be dumped in bags
and I have bananas awaiting a mashing for saskanana bread. Doing a triple
batch and freezing a whack of it.

I love summer, love garden season but there's no time to socialize when
there is weeding to do...
Love to all, will talk in the autumn when production slows down, and I still
have all these workshops for herbalism and permaculture to attend and
present at.

so I apologize for the lack of participation, hope all gardens are
flourishing and a big Hi to all the new comers. Must dash and finish up my
fireweed jelly, and as I said must deal with the berries.
cheers all
Bina

PS Hi to all the unknown government guys who have to read all this, hope
your gardens are growing well too. You realize that the act of growing your
own food makes us revolutionaries so yes you need to watch and listen to us
very carefully as we discuss things like manure and comfrey tea...seditious
I know

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better and the best way to do this is to keep away from GMO's. Enough said.
ha
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