It’s Elderberry Syrup Season!

After Midsummer we start getting ready for the fall. For some of us it means harvesting of what’s left of our summer gardens, for others it’s time to get ready for school to begin and others, like me, just love the season, the waning summer into beautiful fall colors and cooler temperatures. Regardless of what

Let Dog Food be Thy Medicine

What do you think of when you think hear “dog food”? Does it bring a big bag of low quality ultra-processed food with a package full of promises ultra-processed food can not deliver? Do you think of tin cans full of mushy, smelly shit that doesn’t resemble food at all? Do you think of organic

Here We Grow!

I’m really excited about this coming growing season; actually, I’m excited about every growing season! The time to sow can’t get here soon enough! Winter supplies have run low and there are so many different methods of sprouting, growing and harvesting I want to experiment with! I have seeds saved from last year ready to

Gardening in December?!?!

Haven being raised in Illinois and later migrated all the way to Wisconsin, gardening in winter just wasn’t heard of in my world. Even though the majority of my family is from the south where the growing season is much longer and the winters aren’t as harsh, I somehow missed the message that we can

Stopping Natural Cycles

Nature is based on symbiotic relationships, we take and give back on a consistent basis. She is the original recycling center, creating no waste. Everything has a purpose and that purpose can change depending on we are in the cycle it is. When a plant goes to seed, the bird eats the seed then carries

Growing Your Own Food is Amazingly Powerful and Freeing

When going off grid, you need skills and lots of them. This is the reason we’re going partly off grid in our current house on 1 acre. It won’t serve us to buy some land and then figure it out. We’re studying, experimenting, learning and growing into our place as off gridders. One of the