We have been on a tight budget on and off for many years, for different reasons and in different countries (even Continents). These are the 7 proven tips on how to feed a family on a tight budget, no matter where you are. I am not giving you a grocery bill amount or a meal plan. I do not find them ...
Growing Lemons in the indoor garden on Video
This blog article started as an indoor garden update on video. But since the Meyer lemon tree in the video got so much attention and raised questions, we have updated it to give more information about growing lemons. An indoor garden is a place where winter does not exist, and that's quite ...
Annual Vegetable Varieties for a Short Growing Season
Annual vegetable varieties for a short growing season have to be quick maturing. Growing a productive garden takes time. Seeds need to be planted, germinate, established, the plants have to mature and produce fruit. In most parts of the world, there is plenty of time for this. The garden is planted ...
Covering the GeoDome Greenhouse
The covering of the geodome greenhouse makes all the difference in how much protection you will have. A single layer of greenhouse plastic poly keeps a greenhouse around 4 degrees warmer at night than the outside temperature. Adding another layer of plastic filled with air in between the two would ...
Pressure Canning Dried Beans
Beans are a big part of a whole-food plant-based diet. The easiest way to have them available is to pressure-can dried beans. Canning dried beans is not a lot of work, but it does take 4-6 hours. My canner fits 18 pint jars, and I rotate between pinto, black, and kidney beans, as well as ...
Why we heat the indoor garden with electricity
Every so often the question comes up on how we heat our indoor garden/greenhouse or why we heat the indoor garden with electricity. For those that don't know we are in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. It is cold here. We use our indoor growing room year-round. In the ...
Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet
We switched to a plant-based diet a few years ago and have never looked back. Eating plants tastes good, feels good, and is good all around. We are sometimes asked if it was hard for us to change to a plant-based diet. Our answer is 'no' for two reasons: For one, we are both people who do not ...
Indoor Garden Update Fall/Winter 2019
In the summer of 2014, we started the adventure of converting an old garage into a food production place. As you will see in this indoor garden update fall/winter 2019, we have come a long way. The story When we first started we had big plans and zero experience in indoor gardening especially in ...
2 Top Things to Keep a Greenhouse From Freezing
When we started our adventure to build (well, more like rebuild) a 4 season greenhouse back in 2014, we were sure that heating would play the most important role in keeping the greenhouse from freezing in our cold zone 3 winters. Guess what, it is not! Are you surprised? Well, we did not ...
End Of Season – Garden Update 2019
The growing season of 2019 has come to an end, at least in the outside garden and greenhouse, time to do an end of season garden update to review our annual garden. What worked well in this year’s garden, and what we will be looking into doing differently in the future. Every year is a little ...
