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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: October 2023

With an unusually warm October for Winnipeg, our gardening projects have continued a week or two longer than they normally ...

How to Make Butter Chicken Sauce (with Canning Instructions!)

Tomatoes are always a problem in our garden because we always have too many. In summer of 2022 we somehow ...

How to Make Pasta Sauce (with Canning Instructions!)

When the tomatoes first start ripening in the garden, it's a time of joy. Nothing beats a fresh tomato! But ...

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Water Bath Canner Recipes

How to Make Butter Chicken Sauce (with Canning Instructions!)

Tomatoes are always a problem in our garden because we always have too many. In summer of 2022 we somehow ...

How to Make Pasta Sauce (with Canning Instructions!)

When the tomatoes first start ripening in the garden, it's a time of joy. Nothing beats a fresh tomato! But ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Bread Recipes

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 ...

How to Make Jalapeño Cheddar Sourdough Bread (or with Other Hot Peppers)

A few months ago I got myself going with a sourdough starter. A sourdough starter is basically fermented flour, and ...

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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 ...

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Gardening and Harvesting

Garden Update: October 2023

With an unusually warm October for Winnipeg, our gardening projects have continued a week or two longer than they normally ...

Garden Update: September 2023

As the height of summer passes and we inch our way slowly toward fall, we find ourselves entering the busiest ...

Garden Update: August 2023

It's becoming abundantly clear to me—as if I somehow hadn't already learned my lesson—that it's near impossible to do anything ...

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Latest Posts

Water Bath Canner Recipes

Pressure Canner Recipes

Bread Recipes

Alcoholic Drinks

Gardening and Harvesting

General Blog Posts