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 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 ...
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' ...
How to Can Tart Cherry Juice
I've spoken a few times on this site so far about the friend's parents' place that has a cherry tree ...
Water Bath Canner Recipes
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' ...
How to Can Tart Cherry Juice
I've spoken a few times on this site so far about the friend's parents' place that has a cherry tree ...
How to Can Apple Juice
Fruit trees are something we’ve always been interested in, but there’s just no room for them on our property. Thankfully, ...
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 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 ...
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 Pickle Garlic Scapes
One of the things I love about growing garlic is that you get two different harvests from them—the garlic, of ...
Dehydrator Recipes
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 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, ...
How to Make Pumpkin Butter
For fans of pumpkin and all things autumn, pumpkin butter is a treat. I made a batch last year and ...
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 ...
Gardening and Harvesting
Garden Update: August 2024
What a difference one month makes! In the last monthly update, I wrote about how this year is not a ...
Garden Update: July 2024
Every year, my husband says something like "this is not a good year for the garden". It's either too hot ...
Garden Update: June 2024
After getting through the garden hibernation period—AKA winter—life is starting to appear in our yard again. Many, many years ago, ...
General Blog Posts
Garden Update: August 2024
What a difference one month makes! In the last monthly update, I wrote about how this year is not a ...
Making Use of Scraps
Gardening, especially on a large scale, means creating a lot of organic waste. While there are some plants where the ...
Garden Update: July 2024
Every year, my husband says something like "this is not a good year for the garden". It's either too hot ...