If you've ever wondered How to Grow Buckwheat to improve your crop rotations, this post contains all the information you could need to get started! Learn how to grow it, when and where, and the best way to use it in your vegetable garden or yard. Buckwheat is a fast growing plant you can easily grow from seed. It has all kinds of uses and it is even used to improve your garden soil. If you have … [Read more...]
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How to Make Pickled Eggs – Easy Recipe
Here's how to make Pickled Eggs - just store them in the fridge. Pickled Eggs Recipe Backstory I love our backyard chickens! They add so much to a homestead and they don't cost a lot to keep. Our chickens help us in lots of ways - we love keeping our chickens busy. And they love to work, fluffing up compost piles and eating weed seeds. Chickens often stop or slow down the egg … [Read more...]
Natural Insect Repellant That’s Probably in Your Pantry!
June has been very rainy here this year. It's actually been hard to get into the garden because the soil is so wet and I really don't like walking on it when it's like that. A couple of days of sunshine and a bit of wind goes a long way to start drying it out enough. I have to be out in the garden every minute I can, but we are being bombarded with bugs this year. Is it because it … [Read more...]
Planting with Some Incredible Seeds
We got back to our Valley a few days ago. One of the highlights of road tripping is returning back to our own home. While we love going away and exploring, we are always happy to be home again. So we are settling back in and getting to work; after all the outdoor season has begun. Warm weather means all the snow is gone and we have even managed to miss the dreaded mud season that leaves … [Read more...]
Building a Barn – Part 2
Here's Part 2 of how we built our barn (in two sections!) Read Part 1 about how we started building our barn if you missed it - we explain why we decide to build our barn in two stages. If you are looking at how to build a barn, you will get lots of ideas from these posts! Building a Barn Here's a picture of how our barn looked at the end of that … [Read more...]
Starting Seeds
As much as I love winter, I am always excited about Spring. Starting seeds is always a sure sign that Spring is right around the corner. I usually have my garden plan set for the year and look forward to moving ahead. I love to do my planning during the cold days of winter, with a cup of tea in hand and a gardening catalogues or three. I have two ways to get seed in the ground. The … [Read more...]
About Us
We left a city on the West Coast of British Columbia to make our homestead in the Cariboo region of British Columbia (Canadian gardening Zone 3). Life on the Coast was getting too busy, there were too many people, too much traffic and too much noise. We've traded that in for quiet evenings spent on a porch overlooking our Valley, sipping a glass of our own homemade Wild Fruit Wine. While we … [Read more...]