It’s the beginning of July and time to start our July Garden Update! Let me take you around the garden! Here the squash and cucumbers are up but many did not sprout. I seeded them again a couple weeks ago, so we will see if they grow. It is getting a bit late in the…
Painting Rocks
Painting rocks is a fun way to spruce up the garden, create a rock garden, as garden markers or spread joy and positivity throughout the neighborhood. We decided to paint rocks and hide them in our fellow gardeners’ plots at the community garden. And everyone enjoyed them! We chose to paint fun things like jokes…
Poor Man’s Meal from the Great Depression
Watching documentaries and videos about the 1930s often mention “poor man’s meal” or poor man’s dinner. There are a lot of variations of this humble dinner using ground beef or hot dogs, potatoes, tomato sauce or ketchup and sometimes other veggies too. It’s a simple meal, but delicious, using ingredients most of us have on…
Bread from the Great Depression
This simple bread recipe from the Great Depression takes only a handful of ingredients, is easy to prepare and quite delicious! This is my go-to bread! Let’s get started! We are using one pound of flour which I weigh on a kitchen scale. Depending upon the type of flour, the humidity in the kitchen, the…
June Garden Update with Our City Homestead
I love watching the garden grow. In just 2 weeks, the garden has made great progress. Much of the seeds we planted have come up. It is a little difficult at this point to sometimes distinguish between a weed and a plant! We had pulled out a whole row of rosemary last year, thinking it…
May Garden Update with Our City Homestead
Oh the start of the gardening season. How I love this time of year. Planning what we are going to grow, picking out our seeds and plants, the fresh spring air. It is all wonderful. After a long winter, it is exciting to be able to get back into the garden. We have our plot…
Vanilla Snow Ice Cream
Winter can feel long sometimes, so enjoying snow however we can is a must! When it snows and blizzards (and sometimes it can snow a lot), I often place a couple bowls outside to catch fresh snow to make snow ice cream. We have been making snow ice cream for several years. It is something…
A Family Valentine’s at Fort Edmonton Park
I love learning about history, especially about food, and attending events at living history museums and parks with costumed interpreters. It is such a great way to learn about our community’s past! I am so pleased that my daughters share that love of history of days gone by. We have spent a great deal of…
