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Video: Dancing by Garden Painting & Art Tour Food Spread

ByVivian November 1, 2021March 1, 2022

A storage unit provided inspiration for dance.

Art | Food | Gardens | Recipes | Urban farming

Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success
ByVivian October 23, 2010

Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer’s boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15′ 8″. Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets, artichokes, buckwheat, zinnias, dill, Swiss chard, upland rice, coriander, eggplants, and ground cherries, sorghum was growing. It’s sap growing sweet in the Toronto sun. Sorghum is…

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Art | Decor | Food | Gardens | Recipes | Thought | Urban farming

Fleeting Summer, Breakfast in a Flash
ByVivian August 5, 2010

Sliced tomatoes, purple shiso, purple basil, sliced burgundy pole beans, and chives from my urban farm just outside the kitchen door One of my favorite cookbooks is Edward de Pomiane’s cookbook ,”Cooking in 10 Minutes”[ first published in 1948] I love it, not so much for the recipes, but for the theory that a delicious meal…

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Art | Theater | Travel

The Tempest at Stratford Ontario
ByVivian July 18, 2010February 28, 2022

Christopher Plummer commands the stage, so it is not a stretch, as Prospero commands a tempest. When Prospero said goodbye to Ariel it made me cry. I played Ariel as a child and my daughter is an Ariel, just what I was saying to Christopher Plummer when this photo was snapped.

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Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup
ByVivian September 5, 2010

The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little time to enjoy them. There has to be a way to catch up with the bounty and savor them now, and later. The solution is…

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Gardens | Urban farming

Video: Vivian Reiss: Artist, Designer, Urban Farmer & Culinary Innovator
ByVivian October 25, 2012March 24, 2025

Step into the vibrant world of Vivian Reiss—an artist, designer, urban farmer, and culinary creator. In this exclusive video interview by her son Joel Garten, filmed in her extraordinary Toronto garden, she shares insights into her gardening inspirations and the unique recipes she’s crafted using over 100 edible plants. From towering 16-foot broom corn to…

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Art | Decor | Fashion | Gardens

Sow to Sew
ByVivian March 15, 2011November 28, 2021

Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada’s cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow “wearables” not just edibles, it was time to plant this year’s crop. Giving new meaning to,” you reap what you sew,” I gently pried the seeds from…

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