Our Subsistence Pattern

One of the vegetables that we will probably never be found lacking in are sunroots, so we are always looking for new ways in which to use t...

Summer's over Winter's here Patiently waiting for spring... Merry Christmas Everyone!

Sharing Food Warning -“ The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are ma...

I have been thinking about reviewing a few of the gardening and self-sufficiency related books that I so dearly enjoy reading. One of the th...

Another dreary, sunless, wet winter afternoon finds me chilled to the bone from hacking away at the snow surrounding our covered garden rows...

"Alexandra often said that if her mother were cast upon a desert island, she would thank God for her deliverance, make a garden, and fi...

We have been growing Jerusalem artichokes, I prefer to call them sunroots , for more than a few years now and I am always amazed at how they...

Nothing too exciting to report from our Northern Idaho garden as the lackadaisical tranquility of autumn slowly takes hold. Surprisingly war...