Foraging – June 8th, 2024
As promised! I have begun to harvest spruce tips! Now, if I was going to use these directly for tea or something and not add anything to them, I would …
Foraging season begins! – May 30, 2024
Here in northern Alberta we’ve been getting hit with regular rain pretty well all of this passed month. Which is great for the plants and preventing “wild fires”. It has …
Butchery(Graphic) – May 16, 2024
My favorite part about living rural is that everyone out here has the same issues, weather, livestock, garden. So when something goes wrong chances are there’s someone close by that …
Culinary March 19, 2024
A Canadian classic, Split Pea And Ham Soup! In this recipe I have however, added red lentils. The process started with soaking a few kilos of split peas and about …
WFH – March 14, 2024
Hey everyone! I’ve just been working on a few small projects here and there the last few days. I’ve started cutting all the cross beam sections for the new Yurt …
Culinary – March 7, 2024
So much cooking!!! It all started…. With a wood stove…. Then it grew, and expanded and now I find myself cooking 24L of chili from dried beans, biscuits with onion, …
Culinary – Feb. 25, 2024
Couldn’t wait any longer! With the cook top connected and running, I have jumped head first into baking with a wood fired stove. While I have significant experience with the …
Yurt – Feb. 26, 2024
I think my favorite part about living in my Yurt, is that I have the freedom to change whatever I want, however I want, and whenever I want. This weekend, …
Culinary – Feb. 21, 2024
As usual, my mother seems to have the desire to spoil me continually. While I appreciate it, sometimes she can overdue it. I think she may have done that here, …
Culinary Delights! Feb. 10, 2024
Last night I got home and decided to attempt a new idea to bake some bread. My mother picked up a beautiful cast iron bread pan! I was just itching …