October 10, 2024

Over time, wild edibles (weeds) can help us build deep health and resilience, offering a spectrum of nutrition that no supermarket shelf or bottle of pills can ever provide — and weeds are free! Here are six that grow almost everywhere.

Weeds – Deep, Wild Nutrition And Medicine
October 27, 2025

Real food is regenerative, not extractive. Small-scale, regenerative agriculture can help address our food, climate, and community crises.

Regenerative Food Systems vs Industrial Agriculture: Why We Need More Hands in the Soil
October 12, 2025

A homegrown roast chicken on our table represents ​a journey from helpless dependence towards becoming more self-reliant, more interconnected, and better able to contribute something of value to the world.

The Real Value of a Chicken
August 6, 2025

If you grew up without learning that mistakes are ok you may have developed a strong inner critic who, like a 5 year old trying to prevent trouble, now controls your adult life to keep you from taking risks. The antidote is to give your self the compassionate leadership you missed out on when you were growing up.

What You Were Meant to Learn About Mistakes, and What to do if You Didn’t
June 23, 2022

There’s a reason why the words “food crisis” are making headlines, and it might not be the reason you think. Also in this post: three other random, hopeful things.

Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
October 11, 2025

A brief review of Ecosia, the search engine alternative to Google that plants trees​.

Ecosia – Search Engine That Plants Trees
July 6, 2025

This post demonstrates how urban foraging can transform your relationship with nature, wellness, and community. By GUEST AUTHOR Chelsey Reis.

6 Unexpected Benefits of Urban Foraging
October 25, 2022

Strategy #4 to help you dethrone the supermarket giants. Includes a link to the previous 3 strategies.

Strategy #4 – to Help Parents Spend Less at the Supermarket
November 14, 2022

Our physical and social environments have huge influence on our habits and behaviors. People who design supermarkets and sell products know this and take full advantage of it. This post will help you examine what’s shaping your shopping routines and your buying decisions, and learn how to change them.

Strategy #5 – What’s Shaping Your Grocery Shopping Habits?
April 15, 2025

I used to put off the task of rendering fat for cooking, soap making, and skin care – because it was time consuming, messy, and intimidating. After making every imaginable (and some un-imaginable) mistake, here’s the simple method I use now. Clean, odour-free rendered fat without the mess and stress.

How to Render Fat For Cooking, Soap-Making, Skin-care Recipes, or Candle-Making
March 24, 2024

When was the last time you ​went out of your way to eat something that tastes bitter? Wild food enthusiasts and herbalists know that the bitter taste triggers a cascade of health benefits including improved digestion, reduced cravings, and increased well-being.

A Simple Addition To Your Meals With Surprising Health Benefits
October 12, 2018

Doesn’t happiness – even “just” the happiness of some hen in a backyard hen house somewhere, count towards a more whole, more beautiful world, a world that has a little more rightness about it?

Mama Hens and Baby Chicks
September 29, 2018

Why our efforts to address ecological destruction aren’t working yet, and how backyard chickens (or any other living thing that you care for) can help.

Broody Hens and Musings on Inter-Connectedness
October 20, 2018

This post shares the funny things one of our roosters gets up to, and it concludes the Backyard Chicken Series with the question, “Can good husbandry, regenerative agriculture, and morally right living, be defined in terms of happiness and connection?”

How Roosters ​​Care for Hens (and what happiness has to do with regenerative agriculture)
May 4, 2019

Why we buy piglets rather than breeding our own; preparing for their arrival and minimizing the stress of their transition; what to feed them; a few thoughts on choosing heritage breeds versus modern breeds.

Raising Pigs – New Piglets
May 3, 2019

What we have (so far) found to be the pros and cons of mobile versus stationary pig raising systems, and why we are currently trailing a stationary arrangement for our pigs.

Raising Pigs – Mobile Pens vs Pigs in One Place
May 4, 2019

Feeding ​the pigs, as they grow bigger, ​can ​easily degenerate into a full body contact sport in which the pig ​wins and the amateur pig-raiser ​gets discouraged and gives up on homegrown pork. Is there a way to keep pig-raising ​enjoyable when those cute little piglets are no longer cute?

Raising Pigs – Can pigs learn table manners?
July 22, 2019

Electric fencing works very effectively for pigs, but only if they get the right first impressions of it. Here are the steps we take to train our piglets to stay behind electric fences, without terrifying them in the process.

Raising Pigs – Fence Training
October 28, 2019

Chickens can either be very helpful to gardeners, or incredibly destructive. How can we harvest all that chickens have to offer, in ways that keep everybody happy, healthy, and productive?

Beyond Eggs – Pros and Cons of Free Range and Mobile Pens
October 30, 2019

Deep litter bedding for chickens mimics the forest floor environment they evolved in, builds their health, provides them with entertainment, and captures fertility for soil building. Here is why we decided to try confinement on deep litter with no outside foraging.

Beyond Eggs – 8 Advantages of Deep Litter Housing for Chickens