About Beets Beets are a hardy crop in the garden. They are usually one of the first to go in in colder weather, and also are great for growing…
Farm to Table Recipes
10 Zucchini Recipes To Make
About Zucchini I really love zucchini. If you can get these heat loving crops growing, they will keep giving and giving zucchini to the point where you will give away ones because you can’t keep up with eating them as fast as they are growing. Until you break off a fruit, they will continue to…
Outdoor Family
Micro Adventures: Following Your Kids Lead
I admit it. I’m number one of four children, and I tend to be the leader. Call it natural inclination. As the big M-O-M, I tend to be the one rocking the plan together, making sandwiches and doing all that background goodness that gets things done. This micro adventure was a challenge for me. I…
How To Ditch the Training Wheels
Ditch The Training Wheels Already! Our little secret is that both of our kids have been on their bikes since they were about 18 months. We’ve never used training wheels. Starting from a run bike (aka balance bike), there simply wasn’t a need to. We allowed them both of our kids to find their balance at…
Micro Adventures: Flashlight Walk
Walking in nature is my coping method. A brisk walk on the trail never fails to put the things I’m wrestling with into perspective. For added stresses, I add a conversation with a trusted friend while I huff and puff up the hills. One of those stir crazy days where I needed to get out for…
How to Build A Stick House Shelter
The outcome of all of my pruning is many, many sticks. These sticks kicked my creative brain into gear on what we could do with them. Sure, I could throw them right into the burn pile, or make a hugekultur bed. However, delighting & engaging my kids outdoors ranks higher on my list then either…
Homesteading
7 Things You DON’T Want on Your New Homestead
I recently moved from a rural suburban centre of 10,000 people, out into the country near a town of 1,000. We’ve had this dream of having our own little piece of property for awhile. (Maybe all outdoor people have it?). We wanted a few acres that we could call our own, grow & raise our…
Farmer Friday: Draining Lakes, Trimming, Microgreens & Compost
We’ve really stepped into high gear in the last few weeks as the weather turned more spring like. So each Friday, we are going to try and sum up 5 big and small farm happenings of the week, we’re calling it Farmer Friday. Week of March 28, 2016: 1. Drained “Lake LaRochelle” from our front yard….
