Routes to Roots Edibles:
Produce - Nursery - Garden Services
Routes to Roots Edibles:
Have a weekly box of beautiful, healthy, local produce delivered to your door so that you can eat well every day while supporting sustainable food practices
All seedlings are grown from open pollinated, organic and heritage seeds, grown in compost-based soil mix, and inoculated with mycorrhizae fungi and effective microorganisms.
Garden Sitting, Maintenance, Custom Design, Personalized Mentorship and Workshops, All-in-one Organic Garden Kits, Organic Gardening Guide, Compost, Comfrey, and Willow Tea, Installation, and more. Let us help you grow it yourself.
Hello and welcome to Routes to Roots Edibles.
We manage a year-round market garden, produce delivery, nursery, gardening kits, services, and education. Focusing on heritage varieties and organic practices, we are here to help you fulfill your gardening visions, eat well, and strengthen the trend towards healthy local food.
The natural world is our greatest mentor. As a result, we refrain from using chemicals in our growing practices and focus on ecosystem health. Food bearing plants have been growing and thriving for millions of years and we can learn an immense amount about gardening and food growing by deepening our understanding of how natural ecosystems function.
Through our experience, training, and learning we have developed practices inspired by a range of disciplines including: permaculture, principles of the Society for Organic Urban Landcare, soil food web, lunar cycles, Cuban ‘organoponico’ methods, urban agriculture, plant communities and polycultures, companion planting and intercropping.
Growing healthy food in small spaces is of particular interest. There is a limited amount of arable land on the planet and a fast-growing population. Therefore, we put great care in learning to cultivate bountiful gardens efficiently without jeopardizing the health of the land.
- Rob Hughes and Julia Adam
For more information, please contact us: info@rtredibles.ca 604.483.1143
Updates:
Building a ‘Black Gold’ compost without buying anything
Written by Julia Adam
It’s time to get back into the groove, and what better way than to build up your compost and get it brewing for the season! I hope you find these tips and instructions helpful. We have many of these compost piles decomposing, and they have created beautiful black gold for our gardens. Enjoy…Read full article here.
It’s Tea Time – Brewing and Using Compost Tea
Written by Julia Adam
Compost tea is easy to make and regular feedings offer your garden a wide range of beneficial nutrients and microbial activity. This process draws nutrients out of the compost and into liquid form and multiplies the beneficial microorganisms present in your compost. We also make teas out of weeds, comfry, alfalfa, and other plant debris. We follow similar dilution rates as below. We make multiple types of teas to increase the overall diversity of nutrients and life in the soil.
There are commercial aerators on the market, but we use a large fish tank aerator and it is working well for us. If you don’t have the ability to aerate your own compost tea, we recommend you follow the same instructions below, stir the tea whenever possible, and use it as an organic fertilizer for your garden. The aeration is important for increasing microbes in your soil, however non-aerated compost tea does still offer nutrient benefit to plants. Read full article here.
When eating organic was totally uncool
By Pha Lo
To me, the organic food movement has become dizzyingly, surreally chic. Farmers have become rock stars; the most exclusive restaurants name-check them so much you can almost see dirt on the menu. But before organic produce exploded into a $25 billion industry, before city gardening became cool, I grew up in a Hmong refugee community, living the urban organic lifestyle not because it was fashionable, but because we were poor. I couldn’t wait to leave it behind. Read full article here
