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Food Production Garage

Indoor garden update fall/winter 2019. See our newly renovated indoor garden at the back of our old garage. It's a four-season growing room.

Indoor Garden Update Fall/Winter 2019

In the summer of 2014, we started the adventure of converting an old garage into a food production place. As you will see in this indoor garden update fall/winter 2019, we have come a long way. The story When we first started we had big plans and zero experience in indoor gardening especially in ...

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Indoor Garden Update – Winter 2018 on Video

Indoor Garden Update – Winter 2018 on Video

Welcome to Northern Homestead Indoor Garden Update - Winter 2018 on video. The outdoor garden is covered in snow and temperatures are well into freezing. But in our food production garage things are growing well. Enjoy the tour! If you have trouble to see the video, go here. Growing ...

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Roofing a Flat Roof with a Pond Liner. A DIY project on our food production garage. With video on how to lift 360+ pounds on to the roof with two people.

Roofing With a Pond Liner

The old garage that we converted to a food production place came with a real challenge. The big building has a roof with a very low 1-12 slope. This type of roof tends to leak when covered with roof metal sheets, especially if the sheets overlap in the middle like ours did. I tried different ...

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We are turning an old garage into a food production garage. The plan is to have a greenhouse, a chicken coop, aquaponic fish tanks and a shop/garage.

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 ...

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Jakob und Anna winter 2Northern Homestead is a blog about urban homesteading in a cold climate. We write about growing, raising, preserving, and preparing our own real food.
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We share how we build things and use alternative energies. Building a greenhouse is almost a must in a northern climate to overcome cold and frost.

Growing

Growing your own food year round using organic methods. Here you will find many proven gardening tips and ideas.

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Preserving

Under Preserving we share how we preserve food. 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

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