How-To

How to Raise Outdoor Kids Raising kids that love spending time outside and in nature isn’t an easy feat these days. With so many day-to-day commitments and distractions, time outside…

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by sharing these heart shaped seed bombs with your loved ones and with the planet. Seed bombs are the perfect eco-friendly Valentine gift for kids to make and…

A few years ago I invited a group of families into my home to make wet felted lanterns for Winter Solstice. I covered my living room floor in a large…

What is bouldering? Is it different than rock climbing? Bouldering is a type of rock climbing where climbers scale boulders (large rocks) without a harness or rope. Some say bouldering…

Canning pears is a labour of love. It is by far the most time consuming of my canning projects. I do it because we love to eat home canned pears,…

We are fast approaching our tomato quota. Putting up enough tomatoes for the year takes time and effort, a great deal of both, but seeing the end result is more…

My home has been filled with guests and tomatoes. Right now the dining table is fully extended to accommodate not our guests but 160lbs of Roma tomatoes while the other…

Homed canned peaches are fabulous to eat when they are out of season. Not only are they less expensive than store bought canned peaches but they taste much better. Here…

Part 1: Sourdough Bread Recipe: First Feeding (Day 1)Part 2: Sourdough Bread Recipe: More Feeding (Day 2) This is a basic formula for making three loaves of sourdough bread using…

Part 1: Sourdough Bread Recipe: First Feeding (Day 1)Part 3: Making Sourdough Bread: Baking Bread (Day 3) On the second day of making sourdough bread you will continue to feed and…