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Feb. 8/2010 Building an Edible Green Roof. La Dolce Vita - Design and Build Your own Edible Green Roof Eat your way through the garden! My inspiration – Umberto’s cooking School, Tuscany. This is Eggplant Roll made from the school’s vegetable garden – freshly picked that morning Dinner time at the Lindsay/Wright household – my sister visiting from Idaho was the guest of honour. ‘So how can I help?’ she asked. ‘Well we are going out to get some stuff from the garden for dinner.’ I answered, grabbing a pair of large knife and basket. ‘I just need you to hold the ladder.’ After retrieving the produce list from my husband chef (and yes lucky me – he is a French trained chef!) I beckon her to garage roof...

Feb. 7, 2010 To Build or not to Build – this ‘Bee’ the Question. Originally, my 2010 bee keeping strategy was to limit myself to the rearing of only one colony which equates to one bee hive. Normally, I would embark on any new endeavour such as this with excess. Translation for me = by summer’s end I would have undoubtedly been the proud purveyor of nothing short than a bee hive metropolis on the roof! This morning I have now been informed that keeping a minimum of two hives is the best way to begin one’s apicultural adventure. The reason seem logical enough – if one hive was to meet the unfortunate demise of its queen then the other hive can take up the slack and one can combine what is left of the carnage. In essence at least you are fairly sure you would reap the rewards of honey in your first year!

Feb. 6, 2010 Home ‘Sweet Home’ Raising City Bees. Today is the day I start my bee keeping course at Honeyland in Pitt Meadows. It is with some trepidation as this will be the litmus test to see if my allergist has done his job. No longer armed with an Epipen, I will be venturing into the ‘lion’s den’. Nonetheless, no shrinking violet from me as I come from the school of ‘Face the fear and do it anyway.’ And to prove my commitment, I started perusing the internet to get a head start on my education. Finding The Perfect Bee Condo Part of that education was to learn all about what future home I would be providing my thousand or so pets. And like anything else these days, the art of bee keeping has turned into a fine art. Being a designer I was curious to see if there was such a thing as a ‘designer beehive’ and not to be disappointed I came across the latest and greatest in bee condominiums. This one coming in a variety of trendy colours is yours for a steal (literally) of $700.00 – well this is Vancouver after all!

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Open House - Sustainable Landscapes For Your Home. Sunday, September 13, 2009 Come discover how easy it is to convert your existing landscape into a garden that is not only friendly to the earth but will help heal the planet. Visit the studio and home gardens of Senga Lindsay, Principal of Senga Landscape Architecture Inc.