Perennials are plants that you plant once, and they come back year after year. By choosing a hardy variety for your climate, perennial vegetables are often the first vegetables that come up. Before you can even plant an annual garden, you can often already harvest some of these hardy ...
A Greenhouse for Winter Growing
What does a greenhouse for winter growing in January look like if you live up north in Canada? About 3 years ago we started the adventure of Turning a Garage Into a Food Production Place. It is time for an update. See how this food production garage has become a "greenhouse" for winter growing. The ...
5 Small Appliances I Would Not Want to Miss in my Kitchen
Most food in our house is prepared right in our kitchen. There is not much that we buy ready made. We cook from scratch. To be able to do this without being in the kitchen all the time, I have little kitchen helpers. One can easily get carried away with all the kitchen appliances that are ...
German Husarenkrapfen Cookies Recipe
The Husarenkrapfen cookies recipe is from a German friend who showed me how to make them. Baking cookies is definitely more fun together, so if you have a friend, make some cookies together. This Husarenlrapfen or Jelly cookie is a perfect recipe for it. And since you are into cookies, check ...
Growing an Indoor Edible Garden – Video
With November, the outdoor gardening season is definitely over. However, the planting and growing here at Northern Homestead is not over. We have only moved from the outdoors to the indoors. We grow sprouts on the kitchen counter, herbs in a sunny window, and a real indoor garden in our Food ...
Sorrel Soup with Poached Eggs Recipe
Note: This is an older recipe. We have since changed to a plant-based diet and love it. It's better for our health, all living and the planet. The recipe can easily be made plant-based without the eggs, instead, add some sliced, or scrambled tofu. Fall is here, and with it our love for soups. The ...
7 Ways to Keep Your Garden Chores Enjoyable
It was a sunny summer morning. I knew I had to get myself going to finish the garden chores before it would get too hot. On my way to the community garden, I started thinking about how I felt. As you know, I'm an enthusiastic gardener, gardening is one of my favourite things to do. And yet, on this ...
End Of Season – Garden Update 2016
Another gardening season officially is coming to an end. In this post we want to do a review on our annual garden, what worked well in this year’s garden, and what we will be looking into doing differently in the future. What worked well and what should we do different next ...
Canning Recipes 2016
Preserving the harvest is an important task here at Northern Homestead. With only about 100 frost free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter. This year I really got into canning. So far I only do water bath ...
Replace Your Lawn With Food Production
While mowing the little lawn still left in our urban yard, I was hot and sweaty, and mosquitoes were bugging me. I could not help but think how much work lawn mowing is. Thankfully, we turned our yard into a garden and eventually replaced all our lawn with food production. It was work, too, but ...
