My Casual Garden

My Casual Garden

One of my many goals in life is to someday raise all my own food for my family, vegetables and meat both, or at least as much as I can.  I really don’t see olive trees growing in Fairbanks anytime soon but, hey you never know. In the meantime, I try not to be...
Salsa Verde

Salsa Verde

I grow a large garden every year but, never large enough to fulfill all of my canning needs, so off to our local farmers market I go. August is an amazing month at the farmers market, everything is available in bulk, at a great price.  25 lbs of tomatoes go for $14,...
Summer Blueberry Pie

Summer Blueberry Pie

The end of July marks wild blueberry season in Fairbanks, the transition season where summer ends and the rainy fall season of August begins.  This is a short, high-intensity season where you maybe have a two to three-week window to pick you blueberries for the...
Homesteading on Sloped Land

Homesteading on Sloped Land

Now in an ideal world, every homestead would contain an equal amount of gently sloped and flat land. Every homestead also would be south facing, have great soil, an ample water supply, some gentle shade trees, beautiful fields, a big red or white barn and plentiful...

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