Welcome!
This website launched in mid-March, 2023, so it’s definitely a work in progress. Be sure to come back regularly—or use the subscribe feature in the sidebar—to keep up with this site’s growth.
This site is all about urban homesteading, which you can learn more about here.
You’ll mostly find recipes on this site, most geared toward food preservation, including water bath canning, pressure canning, fermenting, dehydrating, freezing, and cold storage. You can read more about these topics here.
Additionally, because I love to cook, over time you’ll find recipes for baking, making alcohol, bread, and more. You’ll eventually find menu plans for how to use these preserved foods to impress your guests, and posts about gardening and turning your property (however small, even if it’s an apartment balcony) into a garden oasis.
Latest Posts
Garden Update: February 2025
As I’m writing this, we are experiencing one of the coldest Februarys that I can remember. Normally at this time ...
How to Make Delicious Homemade Rhubarb Jelly: A Step-by-Step Guide
Rhubarb is one of those plants where if you have it, you have a ton of it. We don't actually ...
Garden Update: January 2025
As I write the first draft of this post, the temperature outside is somewhere around -32 degrees Celsius (-26 F) ...
Water Bath Canner Recipes
How to Make Delicious Homemade Rhubarb Jelly: A Step-by-Step Guide
Rhubarb is one of those plants where if you have it, you have a ton of it. We don't actually ...
How to Make and Can Cranberry Juice (Three Methods)
My husband and I had high hopes of making it out to a provincial park this fall to forage for ...
How to Can Rhubarb Juice
Every year we're faced with the same problem with the produce that we freeze—how the heck are we going to ...
Pressure Canner Recipes
How to Can Chicken (Raw Pack Method)
I'm sure many of you had a reaction when reading the title "How to Can Chicken". For many folks, I'm ...
How to Pressure Can Potatoes
Every year my husband grows far too many potatoes. We give some away and we attempt to eat as many ...
How to Make Chili in the Pressure Canner
I’m the literal worst at packing a lunch for work. It’s not unusual for me to show up at work ...
Preserving Vegetables Recipes
How to Can Rhubarb Juice
Every year we're faced with the same problem with the produce that we freeze—how the heck are we going to ...
How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles
I've heard it said that in every relationship, there's one person who loves pickles and one person who hates pickles, ...
How to Make Fermented Snap Peas
Snap peas or sugar snap peas are one of those "blink and you'll miss them" kind of produce. While they're ...
Dehydrator Recipes
How to Dry Chamomile Flowers for Tea
This year in the garden has seen us expand into other areas beyond simply preserving vegetables and fruit. We’ve been ...
How to Make Dandelion Coffee
Several years ago, a strange plant appeared in our garden. We have a habit of letting these things grow, to ...
Two Ways to Dry Hot Peppers (and What to Do With Them!)
In summer of 2022, I tried growing hot peppers for the first time. We had a few jalapeño pepper plants, ...
Bread Recipes
How to Make Sourdough Bagels (with Three Flavour Variations!)
Over the last few years I've fallen in love with bagels for breakfast again. I remember when the bagel craze ...
How to make a Sourdough Starter
I'd tried to get into baking over the last few years. We got a second-hand bread machine from my husband's ...
How to Make Irish Potato Bread
I'm a bit of a food experimenter—when I stumble across a recipe I'm curious about, I make sure I try ...
Condiments, Dips, and Spreads
How to Make Delicious Homemade Rhubarb Jelly: A Step-by-Step Guide
Rhubarb is one of those plants where if you have it, you have a ton of it. We don't actually ...
How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles
I've heard it said that in every relationship, there's one person who loves pickles and one person who hates pickles, ...
How to Make Fermented Garlic Scape Hot Sauce
The garlic scapes are up and this year we got quite the haul, coming in at around 1.5 kg, or ...
Alcoholic Drinks
How to Make Rhubarb Ginger Gin
It's just about rhubarb season here! Some folks are already harvesting theirs but for some reason the plants on our ...
How to Make Grapefruit Soju
When I hang out with my friend group, we like to try to pair food or drinks to what we're ...
How to Make Orange Soju
Soju is a Korean spirit that I liken to a lighter vodka—it has little to no taste and usually comes ...
Country Wine Recipes
How to Make Rhubarb Wine
When my husband and I started on our journey of urban homesteading, it was pretty basic. He wanted to grow ...
A Rough Guide to Making Country Wines
Country wines are generally wines made with fruit other than grapes. Considering these wines are usually the output of my ...
Gardening and Harvesting
Garden Update: January 2025
As I write the first draft of this post, the temperature outside is somewhere around -32 degrees Celsius (-26 F) ...
Garden Update: December 2024
Well, we've finally reached Winter here in Winnipeg. As I'm writing this, the city is digging itself out of a ...
Garden Update: November 2024
While stuff has stopped growing in the garden for weeks now, we’re still busy wrapping up the tail end of ...
General Blog Posts
Garden Update: January 2025
As I write the first draft of this post, the temperature outside is somewhere around -32 degrees Celsius (-26 F) ...
Garden Update: December 2024
Well, we've finally reached Winter here in Winnipeg. As I'm writing this, the city is digging itself out of a ...
Garden Update: November 2024
While stuff has stopped growing in the garden for weeks now, we’re still busy wrapping up the tail end of ...