Before starting on any garden adventures, I feel it is very important to get inspired and informed. And although the internet has nearly infinite sources or information I personally enjoy learning things by reading my favourite informative books and I have a feeling that you do too. Plus, if you are in the midst of an…
This is a guest post. If you would like to submit your own guest post, click here. Garden design is a very personal thing and is often an expression of your personality. What I like you, you may not and vise versa. Some people like neat and tidy gardens where there are no surprises, others…
Our planet’s most precious resource is water. Over 70 percent of our earth’s surface is covered in water with 97.5 percent of that being salt water. Less than 3 percent of the earth’s water is defined as fresh water and only 3/1000 of this is either too deep in the earth to retrieve or locked…
Do you have a bucket list? Do you know what a homesteading bucket list is? A bucket list is defined as ” a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime”. Our homesteading bucket list is where I organize homesteading skills I want to learn and homesteading…
Life around our little homestead has been busy, to say the least! I had planned to share this updated video tour of our homestead awhile ago, but then Christmas and New Years chaos ensued, so the sharing of this tour just didn’t happen until now. I planned to share this updated video tour of our homestead…
A couple weeks ago I shared with you my favorite homesteading/farming/gardening books. Today, continuing in the same vein, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite farming videos. Now, some of these videos are longer, feature length, films but they weren’t big box office hits. They are small independent films and I just…
I love to dabble in different things. I believe that since we only have this one life, why not try anything and everything that our heart and our passion calls us to do? I didn’t always believe this. I was a pretty shy and introverted kind of kid who liked to read and read about…
Do you enjoy looking at homestead gardens for inspiration? I know I sure do and so I like to share my own homestead garden tour to hopefully inspire and encourage you! It’s harvest time around here for sure and I was out in the garden taking some photos when I realized it’s time for a…
How are those homestead or kitchen gardens looking? Mine is looking quite……green! Well with a sprinkling of color from those little nasturtiums. There are quite a few yummy edible plants (peas, kale, lettuce, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini and a few more I can’t remember right now!) BUT there are a lot of weeds too….
Mmmmmm garlic scapes! I love them, don’t you? OR maybe you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about… These are garlic scapes, They are the curly tops of garlic you grow fresh in the garden. Due to a long story, I had an abundance of scapes this year and since I’ve been dying to…