Starting a vegetable garden from seeds can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Not only can you grow exactly what you want, it’s a great opportunity to save some money and spend some time outside. If you live in Toronto, which is in hardiness zones 6a and 6b, timing is very important to make sure your...
It’s hard to truly grasp the impact that small-scale changes to your everyday life can have on the environment at large; still, no matter how minuscule something seems, change is imminent. Similar to how saving a couple of dollars where you’re able to can really add up to something big down the line, making small...
When Seventh Generation was founded way back in 1988, the founders – a handful of dedicated Vermont entrepreneurs and activists – chose a name that they understood to come from the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee, from a passage which instructs that “in our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on...
Alvin Filsinger came to organic farming, well, organically. He was born in 1924 on a farm in Ayton, Ontario, and he always loved apples even when he was a small child. When he came of age, he bought 400 apple trees from a local nursery, and started his own apple farm. After a visit from...
