A busy Saturday here at Little City Farm leading a cob oven building workshop.  We fired up the oven, demonstrated raking and soaking it in ...

Strawberries mark the beginning to true summer for me.  We just used up the very last berries from the freezer in a small strawberry-rhubarb...

{This moment } - This moment - an end of week ritual, no words, just a special photo to remember, savour, enjoy.  Inspired by the continued ...

Exploring the natural world...we spent more than an hour with this little caterpillar today...if only we took time like this each day...ther...

We love our outdoor cob oven and use it once a week or so to make bread and pizza!  This week has seen us get back into cobbing action, prep...

Tulsi basil is one of our favourites, though we grow a variety of other basils here.  It can be used as a culinary herb (pesto, etc), but ma...

{This moment } - This moment - an end of week ritual, no words, just a special photo to remember, savour, enjoy.  Inspired by the continued ...

A spontaneous surge of sewing saw a new summer quilt just completed....60 x 72, with assorted organic cotton fabric scraps left over from se...

Summer has certainly crept up on us quickly - what a change from last week's rain.  Thankfully, during the cooler days we planted most o...

The chicks are growing so fast - since last week they live outdoors full time, with the "old girls" (our 4 year old hens).  Today ...

What a happy rainy day activity - I had one very eager young helper today, rolling out the pretzel dough and shaping into all manner of lett...

If you are interested in the local chicken-keeping debate, love hens, picture yourself keeping hens someday, want to join the local hen asso...

The first "Grand Porch Party" will take place in uptown Waterloo, Sunday June 12 from 3-5 pm.  It's in celebration of the lau...

{ This moment } - This moment - an end of week ritual, no words, just a special photo to remember, savour, enjoy.  Inspired by the continued...

End of the week round-up... what's new in the garden - the asparagus patch in full production; strawberries, currants, cherries, pear ...