Heating your Home with a Wood Stove in Town
As you know, we are an urban homestead in a small town in Alberta, Canada. It gets pretty cold here ...
Simple Winter Compost Solution
Composting is like nature's recycling program, but it has a bit of a love-hate relationship with winter. You see, compost ...
Do food growers need nutritional supplements?
Northern Homestead focuses on growing, preserving, and preparing nutritious food. Despite our cold climate and short growing season, we strive ...
5 Ways to Preserve Vegetables, Fruit, and Herbs
Food preservation is essential when living in a cold climate with a short growing season. To eat homegrown food all ...
40 Easy Tips for Gardening on a Budget
A limited budget often motivates starting a new garden to grow your own vegetables. However, gardening can be expensive. Fortunately, ...
A Country Garden Cabin
A few years ago, we started a project to create a productive garden and orchard in the countryside using permaculture ...
Gardening Books for Every Season
Looking to build your gardening book collection? Check out our top 3 gardening books for every season from our bookshelf ...
DIY Haircut at Home
Do you spend too much money on haircuts or struggle with uneven DIY haircuts at home? You're not alone. Many ...
Our Simplified Approach to Canning
During the warmer growing season, canning and preserving consume a significant portion of our time. Given the volume of food ...
Making Progress on One Thing a Day
Do you ever feel like there are never enough hours in a day to keep up with the garden, harvest, ...
Transform Your Canning Experience with a Steam Canner
Have you heard of steam canning? It's an ideal approach for processing fruits and acidic foods. It is an alternative ...
Embracing Simplicity: The Surprising Ease of Plant-Based Eating
It has been five years since we embarked on our plant-based journey, initially motivated by health concerns. Doubts loomed over ...
Everything you need to know about line dry laundry
With utility costs rising, line dry laundry is becoming interesting again. Growing up I did not know there was another ...
High Masking Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults
Another Autism Spectrum Awareness Day is coming up on April 2 to remind me that we have been keeping a ...
5 Kitchen Tools to Save Money on Food
During Boxing week, you might be torn between needing to save money and wanting to make use of the good ...
Following your Intuition in everyday life
Following your intuition in everyday life is a subject that I have been wanting to write about for quite a ...
Why we are not prepping
Survivalists or preppers who actively prepare for an emergency, disaster, end of the world, or the coming of zombies seem ...
Gardening for the Weak, Sick and Lazy Gardeners
Since I write a homesteading/gardening blog you could get the impression that I am a hard-working gardener, always on top ...
Snowshoeing, a Fun Winter Activity
If you can't garden, why not try snowshoeing instead? While we're taking a break from our indoor garden, it's nice ...
How to Thrive in Social Isolation
Social isolation has been part of our lives for a long time and for different reasons. Now that it also ...
The No-Plan Meal Planning Method for Gardeners
The no-plan meal planning method has been developed over years out of the necessity to combine planning meals with using ...
Turn a Yard Into a Garden
Living in a town or city house, either owning or renting you might not consider that you are able to ...
7 Proven Tips on How To Feed a Family on a Tight Budget
We have been on a tight budget on and off for many years, for different reasons and in different countries ...
FlyLady System for Homesteading
"My house may be a mess, but you should see my garden" - can you relate? As a homesteader, we ...
Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet
We switched to a plant-based diet a few years ago and have never looked back. Eating plants tastes good, feels ...
Animal-Free Homestead
Update: This animal-free homestead article was written 2 and a half years ago (2019) a bit over a year after ...
Gardening Without Pain
Just over a year ago gardening without pain was a dream for me. After an x-ray, I knew it was ...
Successful Gardening is not Depending on a Green Thumb
It is a common assumption that successful gardening is depending on a green thumb. Some people have the ability to grow ...
Freestyle Cooking
Freestyle cooking is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload ...
Thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet
If you follow us on social media, you might have noticed, that we talk about the whole-food plant-based diet more ...
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