Growing great organic foods in healthy, thriving, pretty, no-dig gardens.
About Tanja
This is me.
I am Tanja, a wife, a mom, a nan, and a gardener.
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Hubs and I have been married forever. We have two grown up kids (Baby Girl and Favourite Son), two adorable grandies, two large dogs (Hemingway, an English Mastiff, and Berkeley, a Saint Bernard), plus a kitty named Little Lulu.
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Hello and welcome! This blog is about growing great organic food in a pretty potager style kitchen garden, plus a bit of other homey bits, as well.
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I am an avid food grower type gardener but don't get me wrong, I love flowers, trees, and shrubs, as well! I grow a blended garden, tucking foods in around flowers and trees, just about everywhere, in true potager style.
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I love farmhouse style, Nordic hygge, and have a homesteading heart. With the way the world is going with food shortages and the rising cost of groceries, is more important than ever to grow our own food.
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My hope is to encourage and teach everyone to grow their own food, whether a little bit, or a lot.
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My old blog from the acreage where I ran a small greenhouse business selling vegetable starter plants and flowers for the pollinators was called The Nitty Gritty Potager, in case you want to check it out.
The Big Move!
In the summer of 2022, we made a great big move. It was a scary, big deal kind of move. We left our lovely acreage on the temperate west coast for the cold winters of the prairies and moved back to my small 'home town' in central Alberta... where I lived and went to school about 40 years ago (how wild is that, eh? ).
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We left the rural acreage life behind for a home smack dab in the middle of town. The lot is a large pie shape with just a wee small front yard (so easy to maintain) and a lovely wide backyard for the potager plus room for doggie zoomies, too.
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Hang out with me as I go from a temperate zone 7 garden to a cold zone 3 garden, growing food, flowers in a whole new world, plus reno the home and yard to work for us humans and our two great big dogs, too.
What On Earth Is A Potager Garden?
Potager is a French term for an ornamental kitchen garden.
A blend of fruits, veggies, and herbs, with flowers and ornamentals.
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Potager gardens are organic, thriving, and pretty to look at.
They feed your body, your heart, and your soul.