We are looking back with gratitude to yet another productive gardening season this Thanksgiving weekend. It also happens to be our 15th anniversary of living in Canada. The beautiful fall weather we are enjoying reminds me of our first fall here. Back then we did not know how rare the warm Octobers ...
Our Garden
End of Season Garden Update 2021
Another growing season in our part of the world is coming to an end. There are still several things in the garden that are waiting to be harvested and can handle some frost. But not much is growing anymore during the cooler days and increasingly colder nights. End of season garden update ...
Garden Update – Spring 2021 On Video
Welcome to our garden update spring 2021 on Video. Northern Homestead is in Alberta, Canada – plant hardiness zone 3A, elevation 1,037 m (3,402 ft). We turned our yard into a garden and the old garage into a food production place. We have been publishing garden updates since 2012. You can find ...
12 Favorites to Grow in the Garden
Fall update on our 12 favorites to grow in the garden. Every year we grow annual vegetable plants that don't do well in our climate. I must admit that during a long winter and a dozen catalog dreams, we tend to forget it and plant it all over again. This year I wanted to record what really is worth ...
End of Season Garden Update 2020
It's time for the end of season garden update 2020 to review our summer garden. We share our garden updates, so we can go back and see what did well and what did not, as a garden journal. We also share them for other gardeners to watch and read so you can learn from our success and failure. However, ...
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 grow a big portion of your own food in a healthy, organic way. However, that is possible. We want to encourage everyone to turn a common yard into a bountiful edible garden. In this post, we ...
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 ...
End Of Season – Garden Update 2019
The growing season of 2019 has come to an end, at least in the outside garden and greenhouse, time to do an end of season garden update to review our annual garden. What worked well in this year’s garden, and what we will be looking into doing differently in the future. Every year is a little ...
Garden Update – Summer 2019 On Video
Summer is well on its way, time for a garden update - summer 2019 on video. We toured the garden on August 8. Summer 2019 has been slow to start and cooler and wetter than usual. But then again, I do not really know what is usual here at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta ...
Growing Tomatoes Summer Update
Growing tomatoes in cold climate and harvesting ripe tomatoes in the summer is something we write a lot about here at Northern Homestead. Today we are sharing a 'growing tomatoes summer update' in pictures. Starting from seeds, planting and harvesting ripe tomatoes in July. This (2019) is a good ...
