Author: The Techno Hippies
Ferment Log August 15th – Pickles, tomatoes and bootch
I’m trying something new: keeping better track of our fermentation experiments, both in digital form (here and Instagram) and in a hard-copy notebook. It’s just…
Love growing tomatoes, but hate eating them raw? Dehydrate them!
Okay, time for a confession: we both really dislike raw tomato. We love salsa, bruschetta, tomato sauce, ketchup, soup, etc… but biting into a raw…
Imposter in the Garden: The Black Nightshade Saga
In our last post about cleaning up the existing garden at the new house we mentioned we had pepper plants. Even though that is what…
Video: First Project in the New House – Rehabilitating a Neglected Bed and Late Season Planting (Zone 5a)
Last week we finally made the move to the house we bought in early spring. The house buying process was a rollercoaster (that we will…
Establishing our baseline: What spending was like in the city
When T was leaving her big city job in December last year, she had two quick answers as to why she was doing it: She…
Worm Tragedy: Three reasons our vermiculture system failed
We had our first permaculture heart break. Our vermiculture system, which seemed to be doing so well, suffered a total collapse. The failure occurred when…
Mending as Mindfulness – One Way to Limit Doomscrolling
With all the terrible things going on in the world I’ve been trying to make an effort to do less doom-scrolling. I’ve been reading more…
Rural Internet in Ontario – Unexpected Roadblock
We thought we had done a pretty good job considering some of the issues we would come up against when looking for a home in…
New Hobby Alert: Outdoor YouTube Videos
It’s truly winter in Ontario and we’ve been spending as much time outdoors as we can, learning to embrace our new, more northern city. I…
Indoor 3 Bucket Vermiculture in 10 steps (Video)
When we moved in to our new apartment we were pretty bummed out to realize we no longer had the option of using a green…
