by April | Last Updated: Mar 20, 2020 | Gardening
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...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
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...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
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...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Our Kitchen, Recipes
While talking with a friend the other day I mentioned I needed to buy some honey at the Farmer’s Market. He then surprised me by saying he received 5 gallons of honey for a wedding gift but didn’t know what you use honey for. After giving him a wide-eyed...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Food Preservation
Homesteading can be a fickle lifestyle. A late frost can kill your tomato starts, deer come by and eat all of your strawberry plants. Some years, no matter how hard you try, your beehive swarms and your incubator fritzes out and kills your turkey eggs, and yet somehow...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading
Our homestead in Fairbanks is on top of a north facing ridge surrounded by black spruce trees. Black spruce trees just happen to be very flammable, catching fire easily and burning fast and hot, and wildfires have the nasty habit of burning uphill. When we moved into...
