This is our 5th year of monthly garden updates here at Northern Homestead. It has been helpful to record what was growing and how. 2014, for the first time, we went till November, and started again 2015 in January. There is a lot of winter growing in those posts. We do these updates mostly for us, ...
Winter Garden Update 2016
Spring is here, and we are so excited. But before winter is all gone and forgotten let's have a quick winter garden update 2016! It was our first winter that we were able to grow all our greens all winter long. We used the hydroponic Tower Garden indoors with grow lights, and loved the fresh leafy ...
Homemade Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas
Homemade whole wheat flour tortillas are a favorite in our house. We enjoy them in so many ways: traditionally as tortillas with filling made from mushrooms, sweet potatoes, or beans, topped with salsa, greens and cheese (we prefer nut cheese); or topped with some pizza ingredients as a thin and ...
Growing Aloe Vera in Cold Climate
Aloe Vera is one of the most well-known and used medicinal plant. The benefits of Aloe Vera are almost endless, a real must have plant in your garden. But the plant is only hardy to zones 8–11 and loves well drained soil. Not a good fit for a cold climate, to say the least. Still, we too can grow ...
3 Reasons To Grow Your Own Salad Greens and How To Do It
3 Reasons to grow your own salad greens and how to do it in the soil in a square foot garden or in hydroponics, aeroponics or the Kratky method. A retired M.D. still remembers how he and his wife started in our rural area. His wife wanted to buy some salad greens from a local store, but there ...
End Of Season – Garden Update 2015
Another gardening season officially is coming to an end, and with it our monthly garden updates. We have been doing monthly garden updates for 4 years now. It was fun every month to record what was growing and how. Last year, for the first time, we went till November, and started again this year in ...
Free Chicken Coop From Recycled Doors
Using recycled material to build new structures is fun. It is also very easy and best of all free. Our chickens are indoors in our garage greenhouse. Since we are in zone 3, our winter can be very unpleasant for chicks to be outdoors. Plus caring for them outdoors is no fun either. Our solution to ...
Award Winning Community Greenhouse
We had the privilege to visit the award-winning, passive solar community greenhouse and permaculture gardens from Groundswell Network Society in Invermere, BC. We had heard about this greenhouse and seen videos about it and were eager to see it in real life. We booked a tour and enjoyed a day in ...
Garden Update – August 2015
It is end of summer here in Canada, and it was a good summer! Very thankful to see all the growing and ripening. Now at the end it all really comes together. Seeing the fruits makes me so thankful to the one who created it all and promised: "So long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold ...
Garden Update – July 2015
Looking back on July garden updates in the past years, severe weather seems to be a theme. This year was no exception. Even though most of July we had beautiful summer weather, we also had some really bad storms. So many around us got a killer hail. Thankfully our garden just had some cosmetic ...
