Our urban home came with a huge old garage, a building that looks and is from a time passed long ago. I liked this building right away. While Anna loved the house, I saw lots of potential for this old building. Garage history We do not know how old this building is. While renovating it, I found an ...
Garden Update – October 2014
Every month during the growing season we do a garden update, and September has always been the last month to do a garden update. Not this year! Even though if you look at the September garden update, one would think with all the snow it was over already. Still, there is so much growing in our garden ...
Winter Growing in Zone 3
Winter gardening is growing food with some protection in the winter even under snow and temperatures down to zero. It is very cool and I am all for it. However, we live in an area where it is IMPOSSIBLE to grow a traditional winter garden outdoors :(. -40 degrees is just too cold. Too many growers ...
Chicken Coop Bedding
This summer we added chickens to our backyard homestead. Very exciting! As new chicken owners we want to keep our chickens as natural and healthy as possible; as northern chicken owners, we want to keep them as warm and dry as possible - it gets really cold here. We want to use the deep litter ...
Garden Update – September 2014
September was a busy month around our garden. Not just were we busy, the weather was crazy busy too. Within a week we went from summer to winter, then back to summer and full speed into fall. There are not many places on our planet Earth where this is possible, but here it is, so we better enjoy the ...
How to Steam Vegetables Without a Steamer
Steaming vegetables without a steamer is something I learned during my time as a sales representative for the top cooking system in Germany, the AMC. The unique AMC cooking methods are cooking vegetables without adding water and frying meat without adding fat. Today I'm going to show you how to use ...
Our Geodesic Dome Greenhouse’s New Home
Last Fall, since we were planning on moving and did not know if the new place would have room for an 18 feet GeoDome, we sold our greenhouse. It was a good choice even though it was hard to let the GeoDome greenhouse go. The new owners are enjoying and using it greatly, just how we wanted it to ...
Farm Garden and Garden Update – August 2014
Summers tend to go by quickly, but this summer flew by. I have hard time to believe it is almost over. We were very busy with too many projects going on at our backyard homestead and two graduates, one now a new college student getting ready to leave us soon. Still, it was a good summer and we are ...
Rice with Sour Cream Zucchini Sauce
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. Summer time is zucchini time - if you grow zucchinis then you probably have lots of them. I find one plant can easily produce enough zucchini to eat for a ...
Garden update – July 2014
July was a busy month weather wise. Heat, hail, cold, and storm - we had it all. But thankfully a lot of good days too. Even though we got an heavy hail right at the beginning, the garden has come back nicely. Others, who got the hail later and more severely, were not so lucky. We ate the ...
