Growing Winter Squash for Self-Sufficiency: From Seed to Winter Storage
One of my favourite things to grow for self-sufficiency is winter squash, especially little mini butternuts! A few inexpensive seeds, or even seeds saved from your own
Ditch the Label Maker: My Favourite Kraft Tape for Pantry Jars
Handwritten brown kraft masking tape is the original label maker and on a canning jar, it just feels right. I love a old school looking pantry, and
Okanagan Nut Foraging Guide: Hazelnuts, Walnuts & Chestnuts
You might be walking past free food (my favourite kind) without even realizing it! Once I started learning how to recognize nut trees, I began noticing them
How to Make Old-Fashioned Soda with a Ginger Bug + My Raspberry Calendula Fall Soda Recipe
Making soda with a ginger bug is one of my favourite ways to turn seasonal fruit, herbs and flowers into a fresh floral drink. A ginger bug
Don’t Throw Away Your Celery Leaves: 7 Easy Ways to Use Them
Have you ever noticed how naked celery looks at the grocery store? Most of those beautiful dark green leaves have been stripped away, yet they're one of
The Tomato Harvest: Canning + Preserving Guide
Tomato season is one of my favourite times to preserve food because tomatoes can become so many different things. Whole tomatoes, sauce, juice, salsa, paste, soup bases,
Homemade Natural Mascara: Going Back to Simpler Beauty
For thousands of years, people made beauty products from what they had around them. Long before cosmetics and ingredient lists, different cultures created their own colour for
Foraging Rosehips: How to Identify, Harvest & Use This Wild Fall Fruit
I love revisiting the same wild plants throughout the seasons. The roses we enjoyed earlier in the summer have another harvest waiting for us as summer begins
Canning Pears for Winter
Pear season is one I really look forward to. We eat a lot of pears in our house, so I usually put up around 60 pounds while
Goldenrod Season: Foraging, Drying + 5 Ways to Use It
Goldenrod always feels like one of the first signs that summer is beginning to wind down. Those tall sprays of yellow start appearing along fields, trails and
Sunflower Petal Cream: A Small-Batch Garden-to-Skin Recipe
There’s something I love about using what’s growing in the garden right now. Sunflowers are everywhere at the end of summer, and those beautiful petals can be
DIY Non-Toxic Citrus & Herb Cleaners
Three simple ways to bring the garden into your non-toxic cleaning routine! One of my favourite parts of seasonal living is finding another use for something that
How to Make Fire Cider + 4 Seasonal Variations
Every fall, I start thinking about the things I want stocked before cold season actually arrives and fire cider is one of them!  It’s spicy, warming, tangy
How to Make Mullein Tincture: A Simple Herbal Tradition
This week, wildfire smoke has been settling into our mountain valley again. With evacuations happening nearby and that familiar haze hanging over the mountains, I’ve been especially
Homemade Electrolyte Wellness Shots Recipe
I love making these wellness shots in batches and keeping them in little glass bottles in the fridge, ready to grab before a run, a busy day
