This 'Homemade 5 Vegetables Soup' is very yummy, easy to make, and can save you some money, too. After all, there are always some vegetables that have to go but do not really fit any recipe. Take them and make a yummy 'Homemade 5 Vegetables Soup' and you can feed a family or have lunches for 3 ...
Planning a Homestead Kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of a homestead. Here is where all the home grown produce becomes homegrown food. Here we make, preserve, and enjoy our meals. Planning a homestead kitchen is an exciting and important undertaking. Our older house had an older kitchen in it. In fact, it is most likely ...
Best Mashed Potatoes Ever
It’s quite a statement to suggest that these are the Best Mashed Potatoes Ever. If you read my post on How to Steam Vegetables Without a Steamer you know that vegetables, and potatoes too, do not need to be boiled covered in water. Potatoes taste much better just steamed in a pot with very little ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
Where to grow an edible window garden
Location is everything when it comes to a successful garden. It is the same with an indoor garden. Your edible window garden will greatly depend on the windows you have. Not every window is equally good for a window garden, let's see where to grow an edible window garden. Choose the best window for ...
Edible Window Garden
In the fall, when the outdoor garden is done and the temperature drops to freezing and below, we move back into our house and wait for spring grow an indoor edible window garden. Grow food year-round in any weather following these simple and proven techniques. The edible window garden history We ...
Heirloom Tomato Varieties We Grow In a Northern Garden
Heirloom tomato varieties we grow in a northern garden in Alberta, Canada. Many have become our favorites in taste and production. Growing tomatoes in a cool climate is a challenging and fun thing to do. We grow mainly heirloom tomatoes. Every year we try some new varieties and choose from those ...
Growing Sweet Potatoes in Cold Climate
Sweet potatoes are a heat-loving summer crop. They are not suited for the northern climate, nor a short growing season. Here at Northern Homestead, we are dealing with both. But sweet potatoes are tasty and so good for you. We love them baked with some homemade sour cream, yum. So ...
The Easiest Way to Preserve Tomatoes
From the moment we plant the very first tomato seeds (when it is still snowing), we look forward to harvesting the ripe tomatoes, biting in, and savoring the taste ... Yummy! Sometimes there are more tomatoes than we can eat or have time to preserve. Not to worry! The easiest way ever to preserve ...
How To Ripen Green Tomatoes
Our growing season is very short. It might just be 100 days, plus our summers tend to be on the cooler side. At the end of the short summer, there are usually still many green tomatoes. Thankfully, tomatoes ripen nicely after already being harvested. Here is how to ripen green tomatoes ...
