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Our Garden '14

Garden Update in Zone 3 - November 2014

Garden Update – November 2014

Here we go, a garden update in November up north in Canada where snow has taken over the landscape. Where days are short and temperatures are cold. We are still gardening! November started with some bad weather forecast. So we prepared the garden for winter. We harvested what was left of yummy ...

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October garden Update

Garden Update – October 2014

Every month during the growing season we do a garden update, and September has always been the last month to do a garden update. Not this year! Even though if you look at the September garden update, one would think with all the snow it was over already. Still, there is so much growing in our garden ...

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Garden Update September 2014

Garden Update – September 2014

September was a busy month around our garden. Not just were we busy, the weather was crazy busy too. Within a week we went from summer to winter, then back to summer and full speed into fall. There are not many places on our planet Earth where this is possible, but here it is, so we better enjoy the ...

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Farm Fresh food from our backyard and farm garden

Farm Garden and Garden Update – August 2014

Summers tend to go by quickly, but this summer flew by. I have hard time to believe it is almost over. We were very busy with too many projects going on at our backyard homestead and two graduates, one now a new college student getting ready to leave us soon. Still, it was a good summer and we are ...

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Garden update - July 2014

Garden update – July 2014

July was a busy month weather wise. Heat, hail, cold, and storm - we had it all. But thankfully a lot of good days too. Even though we got an heavy hail right at the beginning, the garden has come back nicely. Others, who got the hail later and more severely, were not so lucky. We ate the ...

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Garden Update June 2014

Garden Update – June 30, 2014

June went by very quickly, in fact, so quickly that I almost missed a June garden update. I like to be able to look back every year and see how the garden was growing each month. Rain seemed to be the dominant theme this month, we had lots of it. However, the garden with the wood chips mulch did ...

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Garden update – May 30, 2014

Garden update – May 30, 2014

It is this time of the year again where we do regular garden updates. It is fun to look back and see what was growing. These are personal garden journal posts, so if you are not interested, we understand. However, if you want to see the progress, you are welcome. Here is our garden in 2012 and ...

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1/8 Acre Northern Homestead - Site Survey

1/8 Acre Northern Homestead – Site Survey

This is my very first post about our new to us 1/8 acre homestead. Hope many will follow. May I just stop here for a moment and Thank You for having interest in our Northern Homestead, we appreciate you so, so much! With Northern Homestead we hope to be an inspiration, if we can homestead here, it ...

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Jakob und Anna winter 2Northern Homestead is a blog about urban homesteading in a cold climate. We write about growing, raising, preserving, and preparing our own real food.
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We share how we build things and use alternative energies. Building a greenhouse is almost a must in a northern climate to overcome cold and frost.

Growing

Growing your own food year round using organic methods. Here you will find many proven gardening tips and ideas.

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Under Preserving we share how we preserve food. With only about 100 frost free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter

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