Category: homesteading
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First Harvest: Asparagus and Fried Eggs
Five spears, 61 grams of asparagus, and a kid who only wants the tips.
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June 2024 Vegetable Garden Tour
One year later and here we go again! A video taking you around the raised beds to see what’s growing in this year’s veg garden. It’s been fun to compare how much has changed since last year’s tour. I hope to do one of the flower garden as well, after I clean it up next…
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Six on Saturday | 18th November 2023
First post of winter, brrr! Our nights have consistently been dipping below 0°C now, though not very far below most of the time. Enough to justify a fire in a woodstove and candles everywhere, though! There are about six hours between sunrise and sunset at the moment, though that’s closer to five hours of usable…
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Six on Saturday | 11th November 2023
It’s supposed to rain for most of this weekend, but I’ll be ducking out during the lighter portions to harvest what I can because winter officially begins for us next week. The nighttime temps will be consistently below 0ºC, the snow will fall, and the ground will be frozen solid after a few weeks. I’ve…
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Six on Saturday | 28th October 2023
A year and a month ago, I shared a weekend project where I added shelving to our root cellar which had been sitting unused under the house for a good couple of decades. Since I’ve finished storing most things in the root cellar this autumn, it seemed a good time to catch up on how…
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June 2023 Vegetable Garden Tour
It’s been a month since my last vegetable garden update, so I thought I’d take you out into the garden today and show you what’s growing! Fair disclosure – I adore watching other people’s garden tours. I’m sure they make up a good portion of my watch history on Youtube. It’s horribly nosy but there…
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The Evolution of a Vegetable Garden
Having a large vegetable garden has always been one of my life goals, and certainly factored into our choice of home. We arrived at our little farm in the summer of 2012 with plenty of optimism and plans, but not much in the way of experience or supplies. It was a pretty steep learning curve,…
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A Weekend Project
Root cellars. I love the idea, but in practice, it’s taken me a bit longer to get the hang of them. Like all farmhouses of a certain age, ours had one built into the basement as a matter of course. We saw it, along with a vintage loom and spinning wheel, while poking around downstairs…