It’s time to call it a day at the urban farm’s year-end Hootenany. Rosmarie joins Milena to put the garden to bed, and plans are made for a home cooked harvest meal. For Milena and Rosmarie it’s been a season of growth, in the garden and in their lives.

Milena takes centre stage at the grand opening of the Healing Garden at the Common Roots Urban Farm. Later, Milena and Rosmarie collect seeds for the next growing season and are joined by a friend for some horticulture therapy.

Learn how to protect your fruits and vegetables for the winter so you can reap the rewards of your hard work year round.

Growing Sense expert Rosmarie Lohnes demonstrates how to protect your garden from the dangers of winter using hay or straw as an insulator and brush to bear the weight of snow.

Learn about the generous gifts that this year's plants offer for next year's growing season and how a gardener who is blind can tell when a plant is ready to be collected.

Milena Khazanavicius was a floral designer with a dream of opening her own shop before losing her sight at the age of 22. She shares tips and tricks that have helped her get the most out of her balcony garden.

A mildew infestation is common, but can be deadly for even the healthiest gardens. Learn how to combat the problem that's often caused by high humidity or over-planting in a tight space.

A healthy and happy garden requires maintenance and care. Learn tips and tricks for weeding, thinning and pruning from Growing Sense experts Milena Khazanavicius and Rosmarie Lohnes.

An outdoor compost often uses a bin system with chicken wire and lumber, but that can often be large and cumbersome for people of all abilities. Learn how a smaller indoor solution can be more manageable for people with sight loss.

Learn how to arrange an accessible garden plot with a raised bed using the square-foot or row gardening methods.

Learn how an unconventional way of planting summer vegetables using a bale of hay can be helpful for a gardener who is blind or partially sighted.

Learn how flooring designs, raised beds and signage can help make community gardens more accessible for people of all abilities.

Milena joins her father on a mushroom hunt, a family tradition she hasn’t participated in since first losing her sight. Meanwhile, Rosmarie visits Windhorse Farm – sustainably managed woodland that offered her refuge during a turbulent time.

After a dry summer, Milena’s hopes for an accessible water station have finally been realized and water flows bringing new life to the urban farm. Later, Milena and Rosmarie get ready for some extreme gardening with a living shoreline project.

The urban farm has been struck with blight – no garden is safe from this pesky fungus and Milena worries that she could lose her entire crop. Meanwhile, Rosmarie is having growing pains of a different sort as her company continues to expand. 

Milena is frustrated by problems in the garden, but her boyfriend Yousef knows how to cheer her up – a romantic walk in the urban farm’s edible gardens. Meanwhile, Rosmarie spends quality time with her husband Greg.

Milena turns the tables on her mentor with a blindfold challenge at the Common Roots Urban Farm. Later, Rosmarie invites Milena to take the next step with the Helping Nature Heal team on her first big project: healing a wounded landscape.

In the heat of the city the urban farm is parched. Milena struggles to find the watering station - perhaps this accessible garden isn’t quite accessible enough. Meanwhile, Rosmarie confronts a different type of water challenge at Freeman’s Forest.

It’s planting day! Seeds are sown with hopes of a bountiful harvest, but with so many crops planted, it may be a challenge for Milena to navigate her plot. Later, Rosmarie takes Milena to a food forest and makes her an offer that she can’t resist.

Milena and Rosmarie connect and bond over a shared love of nature. Plans are made for a new and exciting gardening adventure: an accessible garden plot at the Common Roots Urban Farm in Halifax.