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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 ...
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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, ...
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Garden Update: December 2023
It's been an unusual winter so far for Winnipeg. We've had very little snow. For quite a while, it was ...
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Garden Update: October 2023
With an unusually warm October for Winnipeg, our gardening projects have continued a week or two longer than they normally ...
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Garden Update: September 2023
As the height of summer passes and we inch our way slowly toward fall, we find ourselves entering the busiest ...
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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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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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What Urban Homesteading Means to Me
In my self-education quest of learning how to preserve our massive garden harvest, I latched on to the homesteading subculture ...
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My Food Preservation Journey
Several years ago, my husband decided he wanted to try gardening as a way to get him away from the ...