Vertical Spaces for Growing
Not everyone has a lot of space to grow food. Especially in cities, space comes at a premium and in most cases is a luxury. Given that,...
Vermiculture (Worm Farming)
Worms are a great addition to any urban homestead. Composting worms are what you want. Regular earthworms eat mostly dead brown...
Enjoying a Great Salad Including Edible Flowers
Starr Brainard, an intern with Rethink Red Deer, recently came to visit us and stay for supper. The salad is all from our yard, freshly...
Harvesting Apples
The other day we harvested our Goodland apples. Harvesting them is time critical. They go from tart to sweet to mulchy within 2 weeks...
Fruit Harvest
Last week my sister and Mom arrived at the house to harvest the last of our cherry harvest for this year. We have 3 types of cherry...
Vertical Gardening
Today I want to give an update on the barrel garden project we set up this Spring. After doing a little bit of research, I discovered...
Revisiting the Barrel Gardens
This Spring we constructed some barrel gardens. It was a lot of work. Here is an update on what one of them currently looks like. This...
Fermenting Food
Commonly when people preserve vegetables they can them. This usually means using carefully sterilized glass jars and tightly sealed lids....
A Bigger than Average Chicken Egg
So I just wanted to do a quick little blog on our chickens. The other day, one hen was making a lot of extra sounds and we wondered what...
Coffee Anyone? Try Dandelion Roots
Ok. So you start by finding a clean source of dandelion roots. The larger the better. It takes a lot of small roots to make dandelion...
