Garlic-Infused Vodka and a Cricket Rodeo

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Toronto Garlic FestivalIn the first part of the show, we chat with Peter McClusky about garlic. He’s the founder of the Toronto Garlic Festival, now in its 12th year. We chat about:The hardneck garlic grown in Ontario, and it’s culinary propertiesHow to grow garlic at homeThe festival, which includes seed garlic, prepared food, educational events, and music. The festival is Sunday, September 25, 2022 at Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. here in Toronto.  Backyard Hens get HentopiaIn the second part of the show we talk about backyard hens with Frank Hyman, author of the book Hentopia. Hyman’s approach to keeping chickens is that he aims to spend less time doing chicken-related chores than cooking eggs. And he sets up the coop so that he can go away for a couple of weeks at a time.He tells us about:Practical feed and feeder ideasCreating practical water dispensers — even in cold climatesMaking a pallet coop(Spoiler alert: we hear about the cricket rodeo he gives his hens)