On Saturday we hosted a permaculture basics workshop, facilitated by Tracie Seedhouse of EarthChild Designs. She covered wide ground, begin...

Announcing a new workshop from Rawkit Foods, to be held early this summer as part of our ongoing urban homesteading workshop series...(soon ...

Well, we made it into a small feature in the City Life Magazine's "green issue". They list 20 green people & places in th...

Exciting news! There is a new walking studio & artist/crafter tour being organized for our neighbourhood. There are already two very s...

Took a few hours to transplant our basil plants into larger containers today - we have about 150 plants, and various varieties. We usually ...

Had someone inquire about best places to get rain barrels in this area... As it happens, the Region of Waterloo is having their annual free ...

Weather was around 15 C today! Here' s an inside shot of the grow tunnel, which was planted full of seeds in October. The tunnel felt ...

Had a savoury workshop here at the farm yesterday, facilitated by Beth Weisberg of RawKit. She specializes in raw foods, and presented a hi...

The ground is still covered in snow, but spring is just around the corner - in fact, it's literally here in just two days! I'm drea...

There is a great series of sustainable building workshops happening this spring at the new Grand House, a strawbale student co-operative in ...

February has been a busy month at our B&B and we've had many wonderful guests come to stay with us! It seems that as with any busin...

There is a new local citizen's group called the Waterloo Hen Association, which has formed to create a new City of Waterloo by-law allow...

So we all know that local food is where it's at - 100 mile diet, locavores...but sometimes it's difficult to source out good local f...

Yesterday evening Wordsworth Books hosted author and activist Raj Patel to discuss his new book "Stuffed & Starved". Raj look...

I know it's mid-February, and the sourcing for interesting fresh local produce is starting to feel like a stretch. We've made our w...

There was a great short piece on CBC Radio One this morning, as part of The Current's "Diet for a Hungry Planet" series. The ...

It's time to start a planting schedule, as we will need to begin to start our seedlings in the next few weeks. Last weekend we were at ...

We're getting closer to firming up our strawbale addition plans. Greg has been steadily researching, reading, inquiring, calculating, s...

Exciting new partnership formed with Fertile Ground CSA! We have launched a partnership with a new local CSA (community supported agricu...

We had a great winemaking workshop here last Saturday! Our friend Alfred, who is an accomplished home winemaker (having made wines from all...

Been busy making loads of soap, for an upcoming pre-valentine's craft sale. A Craft Cabaret actually as it's being called, a sultry...

We've put together a line-up of urban homesteading workshops for 2008. All workshops aim to focus on building simple skills needed in t...

The annual Guelph Organic Conference - formerly known as the Canadian Organic Growers (or COG) conference - is coming up again at the end of...

The chickens are doing well. They still like to run around outside each day, unless there is a raging wind, ice rain, or blowing snow. The...

The first annual "a little bird told me" craft sale was a huge success! We were amazed at the turn-out, with estimated 200-250 pe...

We've been busy around here the past few weeks, with renovations to our own kitchen (cork flooring, new larger sink, newly tiled counter...

October 21 - also planted our crop of assorted winter greens in the double raised bed that acts as our coldframe. We have thin black PVC pi...

Oct 21 Garlic Planting - it's a little later than most years, but this October has seen incredibly warm weather (upto 30C), sunny days w...

We have started advertizing for the upcoming craft sale that will be held here on Sat, Dec 8. The "A little bird told me craft sale...

We've had our first few hard frosts, then a little snowfall, and temperatures dipping to -4C at night. It's time to prepare our chi...

Again, it's been a busy few weeks so not much time to post updates here. A few weeks back we hosted a "heritage apple tasting...

We are egg-rich! Currently we are getting 5-6 eggs/day from our lovely layers and are handing them to any friends who drop by for a visit. ...

As a new feature for our homestead my partner is currently working on a wood-fired hottub. His design is based on a combination of cedar tu...