It is cold out this time of year, too cold where we are! But we have all made the choice to keep life stock which means no matter the temperature outside or what’s happening in the rest of the world these animals in our care still need to eat, drink, be clean and happy. So…
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Know When To Grow: Growing Seasons By Province and Territories
Why is it important to understand your growing zone? A growing season is the amount of time between the last and first frost on average in your area. These growing seasons may be very short so you will need to do most of your growing in shelters, or they may be very long so you…
Making Maple Bacon
When we started looking around our house and the things we use to start planning our homestead, and the skills we wanted to learn. One of the first things we noticed is that our family loves the great smell of bacon in the morning! So, of course, we had to set out to make our…
5 Common Chicken Diseases and How to Treat Them
Backyard chickens are what I like to call a gateway animal, these easy to care for low maintenance animal can be a joy to have on any scale of a homestead. They can be very entertaining simply to watch and they off a great return of eggs, meat, tilling and fertilizer on your homestead. Just…
Pet First Aid
Our pets are part of our family, and just like we keep medications and first aid equipment for our human family members it is also a smart plan to have the same basics available for your pet. For the sake of this article, I will be focusing on and using Dog first aid but these…
Cedar, We Have A Problem
A few weekends ago for those of you who follow us on Instagram and Facebook may have seen me posting about us taking out some of our cedar trees. I had a few comments on why we were doing this so I thought I would give a few reasons why we want to take out…
Meet The Neighbours
How much fun is it to make new friends?? This is kind of a continuation of our True North Community post but I am so excited about this and it just happened that I can’t wait to share with you guys! Last night while we were cooking up a beautiful pork tenderloin on the charcoal…
The True North Community
For those of you who are following our journey you now that we have moved recently, I’m sure I have begun to annoy you with my constant reminders of it but I promise it is almost over! For those of you that are just joining us, Welcome! And yes, we just moved you can read…
5 Plants to NEVER Buy
Its the winter time and as most people are thinking about what they are going to be doing on their holidays over new years and what not. The people that homestead or work with the land are already starting to plan out there summers so that they can make this year an even better year…
Our First Property Walk
After finally getting a break from the crazy life the amazing one and I got to bring our puppy home from the parent’s place and the next morning take him out for a long walk where we tried to find our property stakes. We are so amazed at the amount of fresh wildlife activity!…
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