If you remember our post about homemade ice cream, you may recall that we had to use eight egg yolks for the recipe. That means we were stuck with eight egg whites when we were done, and we werent go...
Hocks, spareribs, and chopsRemember our pig? Well, we finally got the call. It was to let us know that it had just arrived at the butcher shop and was to be slaughtered the next day. Harry, who raise...
Theres something nice about breaking ground to plant a tree. It seems like a bit bigger of a deal than planting a tomato plant. The idea that these trees will be around for our kids kids to eat is pr...
"I have never seen a reason why every farmer should not have a sugar orchard, as well as an apple orchard" . Thomas Jefferson, July 15, 1808Since we started growing food on my parents land, w...
My dads seeder. He uses it to seed his sweet corn every spring.This year is a great illustration of how unpredictable mother nature is. Last year, the ground was terribly wet all the way into June. P...
After an almost non-existent winter and a March that felt more like June, the garden is already taking off on its own. Many plants that would normally not last our traditional Canadian winter made it...
Since the time we decided to do more at home and be more self sufficient, one of the things on my checklist was homemade ice-cream. Homesteading brings to mind home-grown meat and potatoes, but Im su...
Well, its not really spring yet, but with the weather were having, it sure feels like it. Sunday was the first truly spring-like day of the year. There were robins flying every direction when we got ...
When my dads family first came to Canada shortly after WWII, they settled on a farm in Norfolk County, just north of Lake Erie in southern Ontario. The land they bought was linked to a tobacco quota,...
The results from our Self-Sufficient giveaway are in!It was inspiring to see so much excitement and enthusiasm towards growing food, raising animals, collecting rain water, composting, preserving, co...
Seeing as its a long weekend here in Ontario, I thought Id share some viewing to inspire you to start planning for the year ahead.Our friends from Hamiltons Love it a Lot turned us on to the BBCs&nbs...
Its been a couple years since I found The Self-Sufficient Life and How To Live It at the library. I maxed out the renewals I was allowed and then quickly put it on my Christmas list. Since ...
A while ago Jesse wrote a post about trying to start sharing some of the other, non-food related things were up to. Most of those other things are still under the idea of making things at home, and o...
Weve tried to make a sourdough starter in the past, but couldnt quite keep it going. Im not sure what got in the way, maybe it was three kids or an overambitious garden, but we werent too successful....
One of the most memorable Field Trips weve taken was to Karl and Anita Schiblis dairy farm. As we walked down the lane to see the cows, we were introduced to a pig that their son Harry was raising fo...
Top shelf: heirloom tomato sauce, apple butter, strawberry jam, and a hint of peaches. Bottom shelf: Pickled beets, dill beans, pickled heirloom red peppers, and good old classic dill pickles.Last su...
Things have been super busy over the holidays, and were just getting things back to normal. We planned to post during the holiday break, but had a house full of sick babies so we took the time to jus...
Whenever I take the time to pick out some paper, tune up my printer, go through all the image adjustments, test prints, and finally make a print of one of my photographs, its eye opening. Its almost ...
One of the books weve been referencing a lot this year is Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century. Its a perfect companion, and inspired by The Self-Sufficient Life, a book we looked at in August....
When we started planning our garden at the beginning of the year, we had no idea wed still be at it in December. Planting garlic in October seemed really late last year. But here we are, digging our ...
A mild fall gave us lots of time to work with before we had to pull our root vegetables. In fact, most of our potatoes are still in the ground. We never thought wed still be gardening in December.We ...
Last fall was the official start to our gardening adventures. We planted our first garlic, and nervously waited until spring to see the first sprouts push through. They did, and we sure love our...
A few weeks ago we picked the last of our jalapeños. You might remember our last Garden Status Report where I just chopped down all the jalapeño plants and Melanie stripped off the peppers. Well, we ...
We rarely do posts without photos, so if you read one, we hope its at least this one. Well, maybe theres something to look at. If you make it to the end...Over the past year and a half, every post on...
If you live in Ontario, you might recognize or even look forward to the Foodland Ontario calendar that shows up in every grocery store across Ontario each fall. Every month in the calendar has a grea...
Fall SpeckledThe past few weeks have felt like weve been hosting a tenant in our front room. The culprit has been the hundreds of bean pods laying all over the burlap-covered floor to dry. We planted...
We planted a big pumpkin patch this year. It was for the kids, but also for us. Pumpkins have slowly evolved from being a food staple to something you buy once a year, carve a face in, and discard. B...
Weve got a lot of peppers. A LOT. So weve been trying to figure out how to preserve them. A little internet reading on what exactly chipotle is led me to finding out what exactly paprika is. It lived...
Wow. Status report number seven. Its amazing what has happened in the garden over the past few months. From tiny seeds in our front porch to nearly a half acre of food in just a few months. It was of...
Heres a quick video from some footage I took when we were picking up the steam juicer Melanie talked about in yesterdays post.Its of my moms crown capper we were talking about. This is what I watched...
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