Welcome!
This site is dedicated to urban homesteading, specifically the practice of growing and preserving food. This is achievable at pretty much any scale—I’m on a small suburban property, not a large rural acreage. Even at this small scale, we’re able to grow and preserve a year’s worth of food every summer.
This site is a growing collection of food preservation and country wine recipes, with a smattering of other projects of interest to urban homesteaders, like sourdough bread baking. You’ll find the full list of recipes here.
You can also learn more about me, my food preservation journey, and more about what urban homesteading means to me.
Latest Posts
Out Now: My First Cookbook!
I'm excited to announce that my first cookbook is out now! I'm a book lover by nature and while this ...
How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar
Chives are one of the first plants to come up in the garden every year. They have a lovely aroma ...
What To Do With Too Much Rhubarb
Home gardeners who grow rhubarb know that once the plant establishes itself, you soon have too much rhubarb. We don't ...
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 Pressure Can Black Beans: A Step-by-Step Guide
Now that things are really calming down around here—the fall harvest has nearly all been processed, the holiday season is ...
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 ...
Preserving Vegetables Recipes
How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar
Chives are one of the first plants to come up in the garden every year. They have a lovely aroma ...
What To Do With Too Much Rhubarb
Home gardeners who grow rhubarb know that once the plant establishes itself, you soon have too much rhubarb. We don't ...
How to Make Tofu From Black Beans
We’ve been having slightly warmer than usual weather lately and it has me already dreaming of our upcoming garden. But, ...
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 & Sourdough Discard Recipes
How to Make Sourdough Pizza
It seems I've really gotten into a sourdough kick over the past couple months. I've baked some bread, made English ...
How to Make Sourdough Discard Crackers
We hosted a dinner party recently and it evolved into a potluck where our guests were bringing the salad, sides, ...
How to Make Sourdough English Muffins
Continuing with my seasonal shift in homesteading—winter and early spring being prime time for sourdough and other baking projects—this past ...
Condiments, Dips, and Spreads
How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar
Chives are one of the first plants to come up in the garden every year. They have a lovely aroma ...
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, ...
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
Spring is here! A garden update for May 2025
I think we can finally say it—spring is here and garden season has begun! Normally we wait till the May ...
Preparing for the upcoming garden season (A garden update for April 2025)
Another month and another inch closer to spring. During much of March, the snow had melted and it looked like ...
Garden Update: March 2025
We're having an unseasonably warm couple of months here in Winnipeg. While there is normally a warm spell around this ...
General Blog Posts
Out Now: My First Cookbook!
I'm excited to announce that my first cookbook is out now! I'm a book lover by nature and while this ...
Spring is here! A garden update for May 2025
I think we can finally say it—spring is here and garden season has begun! Normally we wait till the May ...
Preparing for the upcoming garden season (A garden update for April 2025)
Another month and another inch closer to spring. During much of March, the snow had melted and it looked like ...