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Our Small Four Season Winter Greenhouse It’s the beginning of March! Spring is now less than 20 days away. Lets have a look inside the...

Home Grown Asparagus From Seed In Northern Ontario, our secret to successfully growing pounds and pounds of vegetable crops despite our...

Taking some time to answer your winter greenhouse questions. We’ve been experimenting with growing food over the winter in a greenhouse...

It’s January. It’s -20 outside. We’re not in the far north, but we’re definitely north enough that winter growing takes a little effort....

We eat a ton of potatoes. Probably more than most folks do. We make poutine at least once or twice a week, so it’s safe to say that we go...

We are expanding our herd of goats this summer! Woohoo! So that means we need to get an entire new goat enclosure and area set up. We’ve...

New life on the Wilderstead this morning! Mother Clucker and Gertrude have been patiently sharing a nesting box sitting on eggs. We don’t...

As we slowly make our transition to an off grid property, we continue to experiment with various alternative sources for power. These are...

To say we have a lot of rocks here on the Wilderstead is an understatement. It makes gardening in northern Ontario on the Canadian Shield...

We have a short growing season here. June through September – in a good year. After building our first greenhouse for spring seedlings...

We had an amazingly warm weekend here on the Wilderstead! We took the time to get the north wall of our off grid solar powered greenhouse...

Sometimes you make mistakes. They can be big mistakes, small mistakes, or just mistakes that leave you scratching your head saying why? I...

This is a huge step for step us towards our self sufficient goals. A four season, year round greenhouse heated with wood and using solar...

A quick look at how we built our northern chicken coop and using the deep litter composting method in the coop to help generate a little...

This is a huge step for step us towards our self sufficient goals. A four season, year round greenhouse heated with wood. It’s a tough...

Every spring, we invest in chickens to raise on our homestead. Some of these chickens will be added to our flock of laying hens, while...

It’s warmed up quite a bit here in southern Manitoba.  Warm enough that it tempted Dave to get out and start cleaning up and thawing out...

This is our first year keeping chickens over winter in Manitoba. It gets quite cold here (to say the least) so it was very important to...

We currently have three gardens as well as a small greenhouse on the property.  Between all of these growing areas, we are able to...

We lucked out with a weekend above freezing in the middle of January. We used one day to let the laying hens outside to stretch their...