We are sometimes being asked if it was hard for us to change to a plant-based diet. Our answer is no and it has two reasons. For one we are both people who do not mind to try something new and for two there are great cookbooks to start a plant-based diet. The list of plant-based cookbooks is ...
Our Plant-Based Pantry
Our plant-based pantry consists of produce that we grow in our garden and plant-based products that we buy in. We talk a lot about the food that we grow and also recently shared our homegrown pantry and food storage here, check it out if you haven't yet. Today it's about our plant-based pantry, ...
How to Build a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Version 2
We built our second geodesic dome slightly different than our first one several years ago. Here we share the how to build a geodesic dome greenhouse version 2. You can read all about how to build version 1 here. We have been asked many times to share how we built the second dome. So here you ...
Freestyle Cooking
Freestyle cooking is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload of recipes, it can easily get lost. Recipe makers (blessed be their effort), make us believe that it involves hard work and special skills to make a recipe, and unless you follow it to the T, ...
Plant-Based Cream Sauces
Whole-food plant-based cream sauces are the cornerstones in our new plant-based lifestyle. As some of you know our cultural background is Mennonite. And for Mennonites Schmontfat is a must have, along with sour cream and anything cream. Schmontfat is a cream sauce in many different variations. ...
To Till or Not to Till the Garden
To till or not to till the garden is a question gardeners in the past did not have. Growing up on a homestead, our garden was cleaned up, fertilized with composted manure, and turned over. We did that every spring. The young adults in our rural town would form work crews to help to dig the gardens ...
How to Freeze Beets
We love beets, they are healthy and just so delicious. There are many ways to preserve beets, here we share how to freeze beets in 3 different ways. We like to grow Cylindra, a very sweet Heirloom beet that grows in a long cylindrical shape. Very nice for slicing. Sometimes they get really big, ...
How Much Food Can an Urban Homestead Grow for the Winter
How much food can an urban homestead grow for the winter? Here we share our Northern Homestead homegrown food storage as of today, Thanksgiving 2018. We are doing our best to live mindfully, kindly, sustainable and joyfully. Our food storage is filled to overflow because we have been blessed with ...
Preparing the Garden for Winter
Preparing the garden for winter, a time when gardens go dormant. Winter is an important time for the garden and the garden soil. You might have noticed that the colder an area is, the richer is the soil. There are a few important steps that can make the garden soil even better and also help the ...
Cabbage Borscht Soup (Vegan)
Cabbage borscht soup is a very yummy traditional meal. It is not the same as beet borscht. There are several versions and recipes and it seemed every family had its favorite. I love this kind of recipes that can be followed loosely since there is no right or wrong in making borscht. Cabbage borscht ...