by Bonnie Baxter | May 19, 2021 | PARTICIPANT EVENT, THE PATCH
Ingrid Bachmann and Wojtek Gwiazda during their visit of The Patch in... 
by Bonnie Baxter | May 8, 2021 | PARTICIPANT EVENT, THE PATCH
Site visit of The Patch with participants Jennifer Dorner, Stephan Schulz, Theadora Lilo Schulz and Odessa Margaret Schulz. Panoramic view of The Patch. Walking the land with The Patch participants; Odessa & Theadora Schulz. Theadora trying the VR headset.... 
by Bonnie Baxter | May 7, 2021 | GARDENING
by Bonnie Baxter | Apr 27, 2021 | GOOD READS
Red poppy from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737. (Available as a print and as a face mask benefitting The Nature Conservancy.) “GARDENING AS RESISTANCE: Notes on Building Paradise” by Maria Popova “Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Apr 17, 2021 | GARDENING, THE PATCH, ZITS
Toronto artist Johannes Zits, participant in this summer’s project filming in “The... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Apr 17, 2021 | GARDENING, KELLER
Juliana on Zoom showing off her planting done. TIMELINEPlanted tomatoes today! Wed. 14th April... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Apr 14, 2021 | GARDENING, THE PATCH
by Bonnie Baxter | Mar 29, 2021 | GARDENING, MARCH 2021
Starting the seeds... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Mar 27, 2021 | FOOD BANK, MARCH 2021, THE PATCH
Getting ready to start the... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 27, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, THE PATCH
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 26, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, THE PATCH
Images of The Patch in winter taken at different altitudes via drone. Drone shot of The Patch at 65 ft Altitude, February 2021 Drone shot of The Patch at 100 ft Altitude, February 2021 Drone shot of The Patch at 180 ft Altitude, February 2021... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 23, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, GARDENING, THE PATCH
PATCH REVIEW: Each one of the 10 boxes is 4 x 8 feet. The smaller box is 4 x 4. Boxes are 4 feet high and there are 6 equally spaced posts of 5 feet on each of the 10 boxes. With a metal grid placed on the top to attach strings for the toms. The Patch area is 36 x 36... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 22, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, FOOD BANK, THE PATCH
Consciente de sa chance de vivre sur un immense lopin de terre à Val-David, l’artiste Bonnie Baxter a décidé l’été dernier de consacrer une partie de son terrain à la culture de légumes et d’offrir l’entièreté de sa récolte de tomates à la... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 22, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, FOOD BANK, THE PATCH, VIDEO
In front of La Table des Gourmets Val-David, February 2021Thanks to owners. Pictured left to right: Chef Thierry Rouye and Pascale Rouye, Michel Beaudry, Bonnie Baxter (bright orange hat) and Chef Louise Duhamel (in front). Annie Germain and Marilou Demontigny... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 22, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, THE PATCH, VIDEO, VR
move your mouse to follow the tomatoes CLICK HERE FOR A FULL SCREEN EXPERIENCE > A 360 VR of Tomatoes being processed at Le Table des gourmets, Val-David, Quebec before going to the community food... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 21, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021, FOOD BANK, THE PATCH, VIDEO
Frozen Tomatoes from The Patch destined for processing at the Val-David food bank The Table des Gourmets, tomato transformation... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Feb 15, 2021 | FEBRUARY 2021
Shawn’s tomato starts: Yellow Pear, Purple Bumblebee and Ananas Noir. Green Zebra tomato. Below some Black Vernissage, Kumato and Blush... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Jan 22, 2021 | JANUARY 2021, THE PATCH
The Patch in Winter Arundhati Roy: “The Pandemic is a Portal” The weight of ice and snow is crushing the house. Our septic tank needs to be... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Jan 20, 2021 | GOOD READS, JANUARY 2021, THE PATCH
Some food for thought. About ‘development’ : “… It is a pleonasm because, according to Rostow, development means ‘self-sustaining growth’. And it is an oxymoron because development is neither sustainable nor self-sustaining. Let us be quite clear... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Jan 19, 2021 | JANUARY 2021, THE PATCH
Technical Zoom for The Tomato and the... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Jan 1, 2021 | JANUARY 2021, THE PATCH
by Bonnie Baxter | Dec 25, 2020 | DECEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
by Bonnie Baxter | Dec 22, 2020 | DECEMBER 2020, GOOD READS
The book itself is a gift to everyone, and needs to be shared as much as possible. “modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world’s wealthiest... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Dec 21, 2020 | DECEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 30, 2020 | THE PATCH, VIDEO, VR
“To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it. Skill in living, awareness of belonging to the world, delight in being part of the world, always tends to involve knowing our kinship as animals with... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 22, 2020 | NOVEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
Green tomato... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 22, 2020 | NOVEMBER 2020, PARTICIPANT EVENT, VIDEO, VR
COMING FEBRUARY 2022 to the MAC LAU Le Philosophe et la Tomate CONDUCTED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EMPORIA, A SERIES OF MEETINGS BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND ART COURSES GIVEN BY XAVIER BROUILLETTE IN COLLABORATION WITH LE MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DES LAURENTIDES ... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 21, 2020 | NOVEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
Looking for recipes for green tomatoes on the internet I tried this one Posted on October 9, 2012 by sheldonlaw (find the original link here >) which let me make pickles that didn’t involve canning. According to the post they keep about 6 months in the... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 17, 2020 | NOVEMBER 2020, ROHR, THE PATCH
Filming Semences et floraisons, with artist Mathilde Rohr, November... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 3, 2020 | NOVEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
Icy Falls in the Garden, November 2020 Slippery Slopes, November 2020... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Nov 1, 2020 | THE PATCH
I go down to a darkened room with all the green tomatoes on the floor and separate out the ripened red ones, take off the stems, and put them in bags and freeze them till they can be transformed all at once. I do this every two days as the toms slowly turned red at... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 30, 2020 | THE PATCH, VIDEO
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 25, 2020 | GARDENING, THE PATCH, VIDEO
A Tomato’s Story: a progressive video of the garden in... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 22, 2020 | MORELLI, OCTOBER, THE PATCH
The Patch with François Morelli’s Amazing Pod Sculptures, October 2020 VESPERS In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment. I must report failure in my assignment, principally regarding the tomato plants. I... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 3, 2020 | GOOD READS, OCTOBER, THE PATCH
“Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Oct 2, 2020 | GOOD READS, OCTOBER, THE PATCH
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the center of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms... 
by Bonnie Baxter | Sep 29, 2020 | GARDENING, SEPTEMBER 2020, THE PATCH
Picking ’em green! In locations where the temperature consistently sits above 30°C or under 15°C, you might need to harvest your tomatoes green; and let them ripen indoor – off the vine-. Green tomatoes are mature when they reach their full-sized and begin... 