To enjoy a green smoothie for breakfast is a great healthy choice. It's delicious, easy and quick to make and fills you up for hours. It's our go-to recipe whenever an instant breakfast is needed, or for a breakfast to go on a busy day and even to take with us on the road. What is a green smoothie ...
Oatmeal Porridge Recipe
This oatmeal porridge recipe is my favorite breakfast recipe at the moment. It is yummy and healthy at the same time. You get whole grain, high on omega 3 seeds, nuts, fruit, and berries all in one meal. I tend to find a recipe that I like and stick to it for months, sometimes years till I'm done ...
Chickpea Flour Pancakes Recipe
Chickpea Flour Pancakes recipe is the fastest, easiest, most filling and most versatile recipe you will come across. It is gluten free, nut free and dairy free. Vegan, whole-food plant-based, protein-rich and kids approved. Other versions and names are Farinata, it is backed in a hot skillet in ...
Our Plant-Based Pantry
For some reason, homesteaders enjoy reading about each other's pantries. It gives us ideas on what and how to store food and provides inspiration. Here's a glimpse into our plant-based pantry, showcasing the foods we can and can't grow ourselves, all of which we're grateful to enjoy ...
How to Build a Geodesic Dome Greenhouse Using Pipe Connectors
We built our second geodesic dome slightly different from our first one several years ago. In this article, we share how to build a geodesic dome greenhouse using pipe connectors. It is our version 2; you can read all about version 1 in How to Build a GeoDome Greenhouse. Why did we use pipe ...
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, ...
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 ...
Cabbage Borscht Soup Recipe
Cabbage borscht soup is a very yummy traditional dish from Eastern Europe. It is not the same as beet borscht or Ukrainian borscht. There are several versions of borscht soup, and every family has a favorite. I love this kind of recipe that can be followed loosely since there is no right or wrong in ...
Thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet
If you follow us on social media, you might have noticed that we talk more about the whole-food plant-based diet. It was time to share our thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet, what it is, why eat healthily, and the challenges that come with it. What is a whole-food plant-based diet? The ...
How Different Plants Survive Frost
What to do if there is frost in the forecast? First, know your plants. We are talking here about the annual vegetable garden and some common flowers. Plants react very differently to frost. Also, young plants seem to be more resilient. When you know how your plants survive frost, it is easier ...
