Our Lifestyle Blog as We Create a Homestead in Northern Ontario
This is not going to be some sort of fancy post about a “solar” cooker with mirrors or foil or glass or anything like that. As simple and effective as they may be, I was more interested in something that would simplify our life, rather than complicate it. Cookers of the solar type are generally … Read more
It has been a very slow progress spring for me here on the homestead. It has been at various times rainy, and buggy, and hot, and I’ve been fighting though some pretty severe fatigure. My off-homestead work commitments have also increased. In between the other obstacles, and naps, I managed to spend a couple of … Read more
With all the other things to do on the homestead, we have opted to make the garden one of the lower priorities. This was on the advice of another famous proponent of rural living – Steve Maxwell, who suggested that gardening took up a large investment in time that he wasn’t able to commit to … Read more
A project that Grandpa had mentioned a number of times lately was a small dock for our pond. While I don’t believe we’ll get much chance to fish from it, it certainly would make fetching water for the soon to come garden and plants much easier. I pointed Grandpa to my rough lumber pile and … Read more