Here we go, a garden update in November up north in Canada where snow has taken over the landscape. Where days are short and temperatures are cold. We are still gardening! November started with some bad weather forecast. So we prepared the garden for winter. We harvested what was left of yummy ...
Easy Seven in One Coffee Cake
The number seven represents wholeness, perfection, totality, and completion. Here too, I use the number seven not as an actual number but to show that there are many easy coffee cakes in this one recipe. How many? Well, however many your fantasy allows you to do. Baking cakes or making yummy ...
Turn a Garage Into a Food Production Place
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 ...
