Author: The Techno Hippies
Bird Buds Winter 2021: Our beautiful avian visitors
It’s Boxing Day 2021 and what a year it’s been! We’ve been very busy with work, surviving the global pandemic, and some less than great…
How Clueless Hippies Bought a House in Eastern Ontario – Part 1: The Plan
This is the first post in a series which aims to cover all the things we wish we knew about the actual process of buying…
Learning New Skills – 8 Things We Canned in 2021
Food security and being able to store food without refrigeration is something that is really important to us as we look towards being a little…
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…
