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Garden Update: January 2025

As I write the first draft of this post, the temperature outside is somewhere around -32 degrees Celsius (-26 F) ...

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 ...

Garden Update: December 2024

Well, we've finally reached Winter here in Winnipeg. As I'm writing this, the city is digging itself out of a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...