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 ...
Grow What You Eat and Eat What You Grow
Gardening is a craft that brings a lot of joy, fun, and fulfillment. It inspires the natural desire to create and beautify our world. Gardening also allows you to grow what you eat and eat what you grow. If you put into it some thoughts, it can replace your grocery shopping altogether. Wow! Do you ...
Covering the GeoDome Greenhouse
The covering of the geodome greenhouse makes all the difference on 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 ...
Canning Dried Beans
Beans are a big part of a whole-food plant-based diet. The easiest way to have them available is by canning dried beans. Since we have a glass cooktop, we do all our canning on it. Here is how we pressure can dried beans on a glass cooktop. It works great for us, take what you like and leave what ...
FlyLady System for Homesteading
"My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden" - can you relate? As a homesteader, we could add "but you should see my pantry, or my barn, or my cellar". It seems there are always more important things to do than cleaning and organizing the house. The FlyLady system comes to the rescue for ...
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
‘Make America Healthy Again’ - is the slogan of the Million Dollar Vegan campaign, telling the world why being vegan is the kindest, coolest, healthiest way to live. We switched to a plant-based diet a few years ago and have never looked back. Eating healthy tastes good, feels good and is good ...
Using a Water-Sealed Fermentation Crockpot
If you have followed our blog for any length of time you will know that we love fermented food. If you are new here, welcome! I would assume that you came here to learn about using a water-sealed fermentation crockpot. We have been huge advocates for simple fermenting using whatever pots, ...
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 ...