Country Living in a Cariboo Valley

Homesteading in BC

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    • Vegetable Garden Planner Printable: Grow Your Best Garden Ever
    • Grow Enough Food for a Year
    • Delicious Dandelions: A Recipe Collection
    • Dirt to Dollars: Selling at the Farmers Market
    • 8 Pounds in 8 Weeks: Raising Chicks for the Dinner Table
    • Making Wild Wine
    • Build a Hanging Chicken Feeder
    • 15 Things to Know About Living in the Country

grow your own food

Planning A Vegetable Garden

Raspberries growing on a well pruned shrub

How to Maintain a Raspberry Patch – Pruning

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

home made small greenhouse

How to Build a Greenhouse Cheap

-How to Grow Vegetables –

Learn how to plant garlic cloves

How to Plant Garlic Cloves – Growing Garlic Part 1

Vegetable Garden Planner Printable

Vegetable Garden Planner Printable: Grow Your Best Garden Ever

Box of fresh vegetables on a table

Grow Enough Food for a Year

hanging garlic is drying to cure

Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic

How to Grow Peppers From Seed

Beets harvested from growing in the garden

How to Plant and Grow Beets

The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden

How to Grow Peas in the Garden or in Containers

Grown carrots freshly dug sitting on the soil

How to Grow Carrots

A large growing cabbage in the garden with a man's hand on it

How to Grow Cabbage

Zucchini plant in vegetable garden with 3 fruit

How to Grow Zucchini

How to grow onions from sets in the garden or in containers

How to Grow Onions

– How To Grow Berries –

Growing Saskatoon Berry bushes in a backyard

Growing Saskatoon Berries: Planting, Transplanting and Pruning

Haskap Berries on the branch of a plant

How to Grow Haskap Berries (Honeyberries)

Raspberries growing on a well pruned shrub

How to Maintain a Raspberry Patch – Pruning

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

–  Growing & Dehydrating Herbs –

Fresh bay leaves ready to be dried.

How to Dry Bay Leaves

How to Grow Herbs – Indoor or Outdoor Herb Gardens

How to Dry Herbs Without a Dehydrator #herbs #cooking #gardening

How to Dry Herbs

Lovage plant with closeup of one large lovage stem with leaves.

How to Grow Lovage – A Perennial Herb

– Canning & Preserving –

Pickled Fiddleheads in a bowl

Pickled Fiddleheads Recipe – Small Batch

Dandelion Syrup in an open jar ready for spooning onto pancakes.

Dandelion Syrup – Homemade Recipe

Canning tips include clean jars

Canning Tips – Making Home Canning Easier

Fresh eggs in a basket for storing

How to Store Fresh Eggs

Canner and jars on counter

Canning Supplies for Preserving Food

Garlic cloves in oil

How to Preserve Garlic in Oil – and Other Ways to Store Garlic

How to dry chives by hanging

How to Dry Chives

Preserving Food: Freezing, Canning, and Pickling Food

How to Blanch and Freeze Garden Peas

Homemade fermented Sauerkraut in a jar

How to Make Homemade Sauerkraut

Pickled Beets in jars after canning

How to Make and Preserve Pickled Beets

How to Preserve Basil, chopping and freezing leaves

How to Preserve Fresh Basil

Learn how to can cherries to serve as dessert

Canning Cherries – Water Bath Canning

Canning Salmon at Home

Homemade Chunky Salsa Recipe for Canning

no cook strawberry jam in a jar along with english muffins with jam on them

How to Make Easy No Cook Strawberry Jam (Freezer Jam)

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Vegetable Garden Planner Printable

Vegetable Garden Planner Printable: Grow Your Best Garden Ever

Box of fresh vegetables on a table

Grow Enough Food for a Year

8 Pounds in 8 Weeks: Raising Day Old Chicks for the Dinner Table

How to Sell Your Produce at the Farmers Markets

– Homesteading & Gardening –

A country farm field

Best Books for Homesteaders

Haskap Berries on the branch of a plant

How to Grow Haskap Berries (Honeyberries)

Best Poison Ivy Killer Recipe – Get Rid of Poison Ivy Plants Naturally

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

How to Grow Huge Strawberries

– Farm Animals –

Straight run chickens on a wooden table in the sun

What To Know About Straight Run Chickens

gifts for chicken lovers

Great Gifts for Chicken Lovers

Raising chickens in the backyard.

Chicken Farming 101 (Chickens for Beginners)

Make your own natural herbal livestock dewormer. Easy and it works. #chickens #livestock #herbal

How To Make a Natural Herbal Dewormer

the farmer pets the little piglet

Raising and Butchering Pigs for your Family

Chicken Questions and Answers

How to Grow Your Own Animal Feed

meat birds, raising chicks

What to Do When Your Chicks Arrive

– Recipes from the Homestead –

Garlic Parmesan Asparagus Recipe

Jumbo Banana Muffins with nuts and streusel topping sit on a cooling sheet.

Jumbo Banana Walnut Muffins

Feta Garlic Dip Recipe

no cook strawberry jam in a jar along with english muffins with jam on them

How to Make Easy No Cook Strawberry Jam (Freezer Jam)

– Farmhouse Projects –

Rope Candle Holder on Wood

DIY Farmhouse Rope Candle Holder

DIY Farmhouse Daisy Mason Jar Craft Project

Weatherproof Garden Row Markers

Weatherproof Plant Markers DIY – Cute & Creative Craft

Perfect Farmhouse Porch Decor Ideas

Sloped Ceiling Closet Build – DIY

Budget friendly way to update an ugly countertop #reno #kitchen

Painting Formica Countertops – DIY

Step by step instructions on painting that old cheap grooved wood paneling.

How to Paint Wood Paneling

stair landing renovation, pine beetle wood, house renos

DIY Basement Stairwell Reno

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