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I like to say I grow jerusalem artichoke, or sunchokes, but the truth is they grow themselves. These sweet roots are so simple that it is more of an issue to learn how to not let them spread, than how to grow them. As I clean up my patch and do some harvest on this…
I timelapsed the couple hours it took me to dig up, and then clean, all of my root crops that survived the winter snow. Come spend a couple hours homesteading with me, as I fill my fridge with a couple of months worth of work. Some of my veggies were super tiny, so I baked…
AMAZING Fall HARVEST, Backyard Organic Gardening! We can eat the best Food in the world if we Grow it ourselves. This year I grew 10X more food then I ever had, and next year you can too! Here’s the final Harvest from the Garden, a day before the first hard frost. Thanks for watching! Thanks…
After a week of snow and overnight lows down to -10c it has warmed up enough to have the snow start to disappear. Serina is out in the garden, excited to see what has survived. With temperatures getting so low, there is a good chance that the large fall root crop of beets, carrots and…
Suburban Permaculture Gardens are Productive and Functional. When Design is the main focus of your garden you are able to create a permaculture system like a food forest that works for you. A system that serves you, rather then you it. A garden that will increase in production each year with less work inputs. Remember…
Are you making more kombucha than you can keep up with drinking? Do what I did, and forget about a batch for a month or two – and tada, you have vinegar. I’m really excited to start making vinegar because I buy a lot of it, for clean and cooking. And the idea of having…
These 8 Tips For Growing Fruit Trees can help take your gardening harvests to the next level. If you want to get consistent Harvests with little work, and have a Perennial foundation of food security then Fruit Trees are for you! Are you willing to spend $2 on a soda that will do little to…
With the end of the 2017 garden season, Ian and Serina are getting excited for next year and all their new plans. We have a lot of construction jobs on the books for spring, and a front yard food forest makeover. Also a raised bed garden extension, and best of all – CHICKENS! So, if…
We may be experienced gardeners, but we still have plenty of fails every year. Failures and mistakes are one of the best ways that we learn about our garden, and what works best for us. Serina and Ian go over 5 big failures in the 2017 garden, and look forward to the way that they…
Since the garden is still covered in snow, it seems like a good time to admit defeat, and officially call it an end to the 2017 garden. Ian and Serina think back over how the season was, and celebrate some of their wins. After a bunch of years, we have started to narrow in on…
Perennial Organic Gardening is an investment! Most Gardeners plant mainly annuals, while this can be productive, it also can be a lot of work. I love planting annuals, but having a foundation of Perennials means more stability and good production with less work. In my Food Forest I blend both annuals and Perennials together for…
Moldy kombucha is a complaint that I hear about all the time, so I am experimenting to find out ways that can cause issues for your kombucha culture. So I try out 3 different ways to get mold growing, including using a crazy mold culture that I going to say I grew on purpose, lol.…
It’s only November 2, and it is snowing! What is up with this weather. I know we are Canadian, but come on! And as I sit here uploading this, and the day gets later, it is even starting to stick. Serina and Ian can’t believe it, so come and join us as we complain about…
Gardening Harvests don’t just benefit me. I give away a lot of what I grow, and my dog’s also eat their fair share. Organic food grown in the Food Forest using Permaculture techniques is loved by everyone who eats it. Tucker may love the Food Forest Garden as much as I do, and I know…
Around here right now, you can’t walk down the sidewalk without tricking over buckets full of horse chestnuts. So I was very excited to learn that you can make a laundry soap out of them exactly like soap nuts. Since I love free, I packed the kids up and we brought home a bucket full…
Gardening is about thinking ahead, and with the freezers full of food for Christmas, I’m starting to think about decorating, lol. Lia and I weed out our nasty weed – Virginia Creeper vine – and transform it into a pretty and useful wreath. And it is so easy, that you could do it too! After…
A Fall Garden Harvest from the Beyond Organic Garden is in store for today. It’s well into Fall and the Forest Garden is still pumping out High Quality Food. The supermarket sells “peppers” grown with poison for $3 each, while the Food Forest gives out the highest quality Food in the world for Free! All…
These pickles smelled too good to just dump into the compost because of a little (okay, a lot) of kham yeast. I should have dealt with these earlier, but life got in the way. So now, for fermentation friday, I try to rinse off the yeast, and hope for a good flavor even after my…
We grow a lot of the same crops, and part of that is so that we can have a year long supple of homegrown. Our freezers are one of the ways that we are able to be self sufficient year round in these crops. Come check out our freezers, and the system that we use…
Today just got a whole lot less productive, because the van won’t start – again. Join Serina as she connects the battery charger to the car (with some help from Ian) and talks about her dreams for a carless future.
Lia wants to make pumpkin pie. So Serina helps her make a couple completely from scratch using ingredients lots of people will have around their home. This recipe is so easy, there isn’t even a recipe. What got used here: 2 large yams 1.5 teaspoons cloves and nutmeg 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 cup sugar 1/2…
I talk about clothing swaps for day 7 of #wastereductionweek As well as my final thoughts on the entire week. I love going to clothing swaps because it feels good to know that someone is appreciating getting your stuff, and then you can replace your items for free as well. Being a mom, I have…
For day 6 of #wastereductionweek we are discussing swap share repair with the idea of trading your repairing skills with other people as a way to save money and save things from the landfill. I am super frustrated with how unrepairable most of the items in our lives are. Built in obsolescence makes zero waste…
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I am guilty of food waste, even though I know just how much work goes in to creating it. But having a garden teaches me to appreciate food with imperfections. And it also shows me ways to eat in season, and to consider foods I wouldn’t normally buy. Come and join me out in the…
Okay, I grew the most perfect specimen of kham yeast that anyone has ever seen, and have proven myself to be the worst fermenter of all time, lol. If you are wondering what that funky stuff on the top of your ferment is, look no further for a kham yeast comparison, lol. Luckily, it isn’t…
How to start a food forest garden is a question I get more then any other. Today I go through in detail how to start a Permaculture Back to Eden Garden. This style of gardening is not till, and works with nature rather then against it. Investments are key to no till Gardening, every year…
Today I talk about poop, lol. I hear about debates on the merits of using composting toilets, but to me it doesn’t seem too crazy because Kelowna gathers the solids out of our sewage and composts them, to create a mulch product that people love. Talk about upcycling, lol. For day 3 of #wastereductionweek we…
This week we are doing something a little bit different, and talking about the different themes of Canada’s Waste Reduction Week. Sustainable living is important to us, and we believe that part of that, is being aware of the footprint that you have, and being open to making improvements and changes. We are definitely not…
The chard had to come out of the ground, so I processed it up for the freezer. We mainly use swiss chard as a spinach substitute, so I like to freeze it into small blocks just like what you can purchase at the grocery store, to make it easy to defrost and use. Serina also…
