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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Water Bath Canner 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 Can Cherries
I've spoken a fair bit in the past month of the tart Nanking cherries we harvest from a friend's parents' ...
Pressure Canner Recipes
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 ...
Canning 101
I’m relatively new to canning—the process of putting food into jars and making them shelf-stable so they can sit in ...
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 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 ...
How to Make Chive Blossom Jelly
It seems like every food gardener has an arsenal of jam and jelly recipes. After all, it's a sweet, tasty, ...
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: November 2024
While stuff has stopped growing in the garden for weeks now, we’re still busy wrapping up the tail end of ...
Garden Update: October 2024
Things have been a bit quiet around the blog lately. That’s partly due to some employment changes (I took on ...
Garden Update: September 2024
While it seems this slow start to garden season this year delayed everything, it's yet to be seen if it ...
General Blog Posts
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 ...
Garden Update: October 2024
Things have been a bit quiet around the blog lately. That’s partly due to some employment changes (I took on ...
Garden Update: September 2024
While it seems this slow start to garden season this year delayed everything, it's yet to be seen if it ...