We've been making the most of our woodland (shady) areas of the yard - of which we have quite a bit. It's the perfect habitat for n...

Enjoyed our first harvest of fresh greens (spinach, arugula, dandelion, various salad varieties, chives, oregano, cilantro) from the coldfra...

Homestead Herbals, our natural soap & herbal products business, is getting a new look. We are happy to have one of our favourite artist...

Just got the latest Berry Hill Farm catalogue in the mail today. This store (both online and in-person) features hand-powered, country livi...

We're excited to have received news that we've been selected as one of the environmental workshop presenters for the 2009 Hillside F...

Yesterday on CBC, Ed Lawrence (gardening guru) talked about how to grow massive amounts of potatoes in a tiny amount of space. By growing v...

We had a busy day yesterday, celebrating "earth day" with the Blooming Earth Festival at our local farmers market. We were part o...

Had an informative intro to homeopathy workshop here on Saturday - the topic specifically being "homeopathic first aid". Rachel V...

Thanks to friends who dropped off a big bag of wild leeks / aka. wild ramps this afternoon! Their family wildcrafts these leeks every sprin...

Spent all of this past weekend outside - the weather was amazing - upto 21 C on on day, and sunny! Bare toes were out, sweaters off, sunhat...

A few days ago, when the weather was so lovely that we had spent all day outside and couldn't bring ourselves to head back into the hous...

Our friends Michael and Rachel over at Healing Path Centre for Naturopathic Medicine in uptown Waterloo, are launching a 100-Mile diet proje...

As mentioned, I'm doing more reading than usual these days, as I spend time sitting and nursing our daughter on the couch. What a luxur...

We've spent the last few days transplanting our hundreds of tomatoes! We have over 600 tomato plants - a little crazy, but I couldn...

As our baby is growing and becoming a little more independent, I'm finding more time for crafting projects while I have her playing besi...

Plants, Roots & Fibres: Natural Fibre Arts & Herbal Crafts Sat, June 6 from 10 am-5 pm (final workshop starts at 4 pm) Location: L...

As part of City of Kitchener's "Living Earth Festival" there are all kinds of eco activities going on during the week of Earth...

It was a taste of spring today, that's for sure! The weather must have been 15C, sunny (even almost hot if you were digging in the gard...

A friend just sent us a link to the Great Sunflower Project and we've joined this venture of planting sunflowers and watching bee activi...

All our seedlings are now up! Tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, hot peppers, lettuce, kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, herbs and some flowers.....

We took a short "holiday" this past weekend, to visit friends who we haven't seen enough of in the past months. They are livi...

We just received word that we've gotten funding we applied for, toward an all-day event featuring traditional crafting techniques here a...

Published! Thank you to Lauren Carter for an article that captured the essence of what we are hoping to achieve here at Little City Farm. ...

I'm currently reading Amanda Blake Soule's book "The Creative Family", a beautiful resource book where Soule describes how...

I had a catering order for 300 vegan cupcakes this week! I have been putting the catering/baking on the back burner for the past year as I...

This week has been a whirlwind of activity around the homestead - must be the onset of spring... Our homesteading workshop this month was on...