Settling In To Our New City
Yes, we are alive. We are slowly settling in to our rental apartment in our new colder and snowy city. In a stark contrast to…
First exciting step to reaching our rural dream!
We’re doing it! At the end of the month we will be leaving our tiny apartment in a huge city for a tiny apartment in…
Learning Garaetteok, or The Joy of Our Own Labour
This morning I caught up on some of my YouTube subscriptions from the past few weeks, including this video from Fairyland Cottage which is a…
How to: Easy Oat & Hemp Creamer
We’re over the waste created by buying almond milk, from the waste of the tetra pack, the impact of almond farming, and the expense. We…
Balcony Habaneros: From Seed to Sauce
Back in March 2020 we started the seeds for our balcony garden. We were lucky enough to grab some seeds from the hardware store before…
6 Month Miso
Back in December 2019 we decided to try our hands at making soybean miso. We ordered some koji from Cold Mountain, which is a North…
Reducing Waste in a High Rise
We are currently living in a small unit in a high rise building. We are very fortunate that both our municipality and building provide recycling…
Balcony Garden Update – Late June 2020
It’s been a long while since we posted. It seems almost inappropriate to be taking up space on the internet during and ongoing pandemic and…
Kombucha! (Growing SCOBY and First Ferment)
So we finally did it, we finally went full crunchy and started making kombucha. There were several failed attempts at ginger beer and we’ll probably…
Growing Wheatgrass
Our first attempt at growing food in the apartment was wheatgrass, which we started on New Years Day. Wheatgrass was our first choice because: We…
