In the 27 years that we’ve been on our property my garden has changed and evolved and I’ve tried all kinds of ideas and methods for gardening. In 2020 I began an experiment in raised row gardening. Our garden is built in a spot where we had a very low area. Built as a drainage…
Dividing Tulip Bulbs to Make them Last a Lifetime
Dividing tulip bulbs will allow you to plant once and have them last for years, maybe even a lifetime! I bought and planted these tulips about 25 years ago. Yup, you read that right. 25 years and going strong. It has been a very long time, but I think this is the tulip that I…
Storing Root Vegetables for the Winter
In my last post I talked about some of the methods I use to preserve my garden harvest. Fermenting, freezing and canning (water bath and pressure canning) are all great ways to store foods and also to create resilience in case of an emergency. But what if I just want to eat my veggies fresh?…
Preserving The Harvest
Gardening here in the Canadian foothills brings a myriad of challenges with it. A short season, cold nights and highly variable weather are just a few of the things that make it a unique climate in which to garden. We are forced to cram an entire season of growing into what essentially amounts to just…
What I’ve been Personally Doing in the Face of Covid-19
This global pandemic thing has everyone on edge and I’m certainly no exception. Like so many I’ve been doing my best to stay home (I suck at that!) and keeping my distance when I do need to go out (that I can do). I have been doing a lot of thinking about a lot of…
Why You Should Test Your Garden Soil
In all of the years that I have been gardening on this property, some 26 years this year, I have never tested our garden soil – until now. After doing it, I’m going to explain to you why you should test your garden soil, at least in my view. As I mentioned in my last…
I’m Compost Crazy!
I am currently completely obsessed with soil health, and by extension, compost. It started last summer with my chicken project and the saga is continuing. Wondering how to best get my chickens working for me led me to study permaculture. Then a fall workshop with Urban Farm School geared specifically to the benefits of thermophilic…
Making Head Cheese at Home
When somebody gifts you half of a head (yes I said a head) of some of Alberta’s finest pork do you say no because you don’t know what to do with it, or do you blindly and enthusiastically say yes(!) and figure out what exactly to do with it later? If you are me, you…
Oh My Clucking God!
For anybody paying attention you’ll have noticed that I haven’t posted any recipes in a loooong while. There are a few reasons for that. First one, I simply haven’t felt adventurous in the kitchen so I haven’t tried anything new that I wanted to share with you all. You know how it goes, or at…
Flourless Chocolate Cake
It was my birthday this week. I spent a fun evening with my friend Karen at the Kananaskis Nordic Spa enjoying the hot pools and enduring the cold ones. At -24° C it was an interesting experience, and a purportedly healthy one too. Cold immersion is reported to help convert white fat to brown fat,…
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